Puate XCIII. 
(A.) ROMULEA suxzocoptum, Seb. et M.; (B, C.) RomULEA 
LiGusTICA, Parl. 
Natural Order Irmaces. 
GEN. Cuar.—Perianth petaloid, funnel shaped, having a short tube 
and a 6-partite limb of nearly equal segments. Spathe of 2, opposite, 
conduplicate valves. Stamens 3, inserted on the perianth tube; anthers 
basifixed, extrorse. Ovary inferior. Style filiform; stigmas bipartite, 
either branch being filiform, papillose on the upper side, and recurved. 
Leaves linear, compressed, sulcate. Scape usually bearing two or more 
peduncles. 
(A.) Spec. Coar.—Scape 1-3 flowered. Upper valve of spathe herbaceous, 
with broad, transparent, scarious margins, acute. Perianth having a 
short tube, and a yellow pubescent throat; segments lanceolate acute. 
Style longer than the stamens, and but slightly shorter than the perianth- 
segments. eaves long, and but slightly curved; (they are represented as 
being bent backwards in the figure, in order to bring them into the limits 
of the plate.) 
Romulea bulbocodium, Seb. et Maur., Fl. Romane Prodr. p. 17; Parl. 
Fl. Ital. iii. 243; Woods (partly), Tour. Fl. p. 357; Trichonema bulboco- 
dium, Ker. in Annals of Bot. i. 222; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. in. 238. 
(B, C.) Spec. Caar.—Scape 3-6 flowered; peduncles slender. Upper 
valve of spathe entirely scarious and transparent, obtuse. Pertanth having 
a short tube, and a white pubescent throat; segments oblongo-lanceolate, 
or,lanceolate. Style exceeding, equalling, or shorter than the stamens, 
which are themselves short in proportion to the perianth. Leaves of 
medium length, suberect or recurved. 
Romulea ligustica, Parl. Fl. Ital. ii. 249. 
Hasirats.—(A.) From Pegli, near Genoa, collected by Mrs. Tebbs, 
January 3], 1867. (B,C.) Valle di Molinazze, Sestri, near Genoa, collected 
by my father on April 5, 1870. 
Remarxs.—The form of Romulea bulbocodium, Seb. et M., represented 
here, and that of the Genoa district generally, is a remarkably handsome 
and large flowered one, and corresponds with the variety grandiflora of 
which M. Boissier kindly sent me specimens from Syria, collected by 
Gaillardot ; the flowers are fully one-third larger than average specimens 
of the same species from the south-west coast of France (Bordeaux, &c.) 
and from Istria, I am indebted to M. Motelay for a good supply of 
fresh specimens of this plant from Bordeaux. I gather that this rather 
smaller and shorter leaved form is the R. syrtica of MM. Jordan and 
Fourreau,* though it does not present the purplish colour in the upper 
* Tcones, Tab. cvili. p. 165. 
