292 Liliacecs. [Scilla. 



9. U&GZNSA, Steinheil. 



Scapigerous herbs, with tunicate bulbs ; 1. narrow ; scape 

 naked; fl. racemed, jointed on the pedicels, bracteate ; perianth 

 subcampanulate, 6-partite, segm. subequal ; stam. 6, inserted 

 on the base of the segm., included, fil. filiform, anth, oblong, 

 dorsifixed, slits introrse ; ov. sessile, 3-celled, cells many- 

 ovuled, style filiform, stigma thickened, ovules anatropous ; 

 capsule triquetrous, membranous, loculicidal ; seeds com- 

 pressed, winged, embryo terete in fleshy endosperm. — Sp. 

 about 24 ; ^'m FL B. Iiid. 



U. ruplcola, Trim. Mss. 



U. coni^esta, var. rupicola, Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 167 (1889). 



Fl. B.'ind. vi. 348. 



Bulb about i in. diam., broadly obpyriform, coats appressed, 

 white ; 1. few, 5-6 in., almost filiform, channelled above, dorsally 

 rounded, appearing with the flowers, but soon disappearing ; 

 scape 2-8 in., flexuous, naked ; raceme 2-3 in., many- and 

 lax-fld., rhachis very slender, bracts minute, deltoid, mem- 

 branous ; fl. subsecund, pedicels yV-^ in., suberect ; perianth 

 segm. \ in. long, spreading, oblong, obtuse, membranous, 

 I -veined ; fil. flattened below, broadly subulate, anth. as 

 long, linear-oblong ; capsule \ in. long, ellipsoid, obtuse at 

 both ends, smooth ; seeds \ in. long, oblong, flat, rounded at 

 both ends, pale, nucleus narrow, broadly winged, wing hyaline. 



Dry country; very rare. Rock-clefts at base of Dambulla Hill; 

 Narangama below Lagalla. Fl. July, Aug.; white, with a brownish- 

 pink line down each per.-segm. 



Endemic. 



In a note on this plant, Trimen says : * This appears to be very near 

 U. coni^esta, Wight (Ic. t. 2064), but the flowers are less numerous, laxer, 

 and the perianth-segm. broader and more obtuse ; the bracts, too, are 

 of a different form from those figured, though agreeing with Wight's 

 description.' To these characters may be added the slender rhachis of 

 the raceme, longer pedicels of the fl., smaller capsule, and much smaller 

 seeds, which are not black as in U. congcsta.—]. D. H. 



10. SCIXiXiA, Linn. 

 Scapigerous herbs, with tunicate bulbs; 1. broad or narrow, 

 scape naked ; fl. racemed, jointed on the pedicels ; perianth 

 campanulatc, 6-partite, marcescent, segm. 2-seriate, subequal, 

 recurved, i -veined ; stam. 6, inserted on the segm., included, 

 .fil. filiform, anth. oblong, dorsifixed, slits introrse ; ov. stipi- 

 tatc, 3-ccllcd, cells few-ovuled, style filiform, stigma capitellate, 



