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0. DIPCADI, Medic. 



Tuberous scapigerous herbs. Leaves usually narrowly linear. 

 Flowers racemose, bracteate. Perianth tubular ; tube cylindric ; 

 segments 6, erect, the outer recurved from about the middle, the inner 

 at the tips only. Stamens 6, inserted in the throat of the perianth, 

 included ; filaments short or ; anthers linear, versatile, dehiscing 

 introrsely. Ovary stipitate or sessile, 3-celled ; ovules many in each 

 cell ; style short, straight ; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule membranous, 

 subglobose or broadly obovate, deeply 3-sulcate, sessile or stalked, 

 locuiieidally 3-valved, few- or many-seeded. Seeds in each cell 6-20, 

 compressed; testa black, membranous. — Distrib. Europe, W. Asia, 

 Africa ; species about 27. 



Ovary stipitate. 



Flowers more tlian | in. long, iisunlly about li in. long 1. B. concanensc. 



Flowers less than f in. long. 



Pedicels not longer than the bracts 2. B. monianum. 



Pedicels capillary, longer than the bracts '6. B. minw. 



Ovary not stipitate 4. B. cvytlircBUhi. 



1. Dipcadi concanense, Dah. in Kew Jonm. Bot. v. 2 (1850) 

 p. 143 (Uropetalum). Bulb tunicate, small, j-| in. in diam. Leaves 

 3-4, subfleshy, 5-10 in. long, seraiterete, linear-subulate, scarcely more 

 than y^2 ^^- thick. Scape terete, 6-12 in. long, smooth, naked. Elowers 

 white, in 2-6-iiowered racemes 2-5 in. long ; bracts —^ in. long, 

 triangular, acuminate, shorter than the pedicels ; pedicels ^-^ in. long. 

 Perianth 1| in. long ; the 3 outer lobes rather less than | in. long by 

 jig- in. wide, linear, obtuse, many-nerved ; the 3 inner lobes connate to 

 about the middle, the free portion g in. wide, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 with 5 close parallel nerves. Pilaments flattened, i in. long ; anthers 

 g— ^ in. long. Ovary ^ in. long, obovoid, distinctly stalked ; style 1 in. 

 long ; stigma 3-lobed, the lobes -^ in. long. Capsules broader than 

 long, I by I in. Seeds ellipsoid, flattened, j by g in., black. PI. B. I. 

 V. 6, p. 346; Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 11 (1870) p. 399 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. ]N"at. v. 12 (1899) p. 524. Urojyetalum concanensc, Dalz. 

 in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 2 (1850) p. 143 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 250. 



KoNKAN : rocky places in Malwan, Balzell l — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), 

 apparently endemic. 



2. Dipcadi montanum, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 2 (1850) 

 p. 142 {Uropetalum). Bulb tunicate, globose, 1 in, in diam. Leaves 

 6-11 by yg— 8 ''"•' narrowly linear, acute. Scape 8-12 in high, subterete, 

 smooth, naked. Flowers white, in ultimately lax 6-10-flowered racemes 

 3-4| in. long ; bracts | in. long, lanceolate, finely acuminate ; pedicels 

 i— I in. long, filiform. Perianth a little more than | in. long ; the 

 3 outer lobes as long as the tube, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, g in. wide, 

 with 5 close conspicuous parallel nerves in the middle and with an 

 indurated apex. Stamens attached at the base of the perianth-lobes ; 

 filaments y^jj- in. long, flattened; anthers y^ in. long, versatile. Ovary 

 I in. long (including a stalk about ^ in. long), obovoid; style rather 

 less than ^ in. long ; stigma 3-lobed, the lobes about 3V in. long. 

 Capsules stalked, broader than long, reaching | by | in., 3-5-seeded. 

 Seeds ^ by -j^q in., ellipsoid, flat, dull black. Pi. B. I. v, 6, p. 346 ; 

 Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 11 (1870) p. 398 ; Woodr. in Journ. 



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