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inches, leaves fleshy, filiform half round, deeply grooved above j 

 flowers an inch and a half in diameter, white, capsule 3-lobed. 

 This also depends on Dalzell. The Konkan, and Hewra plains. 



6. URGINEA. 



U. Indica. Bulb like an onion, white, leaves numerous, 

 sword-shaped, smooth, a foot or more long, scape slender and 

 delicate, sometimes two feet high; flowers remote, long-stalked, 

 drooping, light-brown, petals lanceolate, stamens in pairs. 

 Janglipidz. 



Common on the sandy shores of the Konkan, where " its early 

 flowers anticipate the leaves." Also in the W. Himalayas and Behar 

 (H.). He calls the flowers greenish-white with green nerves, but 

 they are certainly as above in the Konkan. " Usually employed as 

 a succedaneum for the true squill " (<?.). 



7. SCILLA. Squills. 



S. Indica (Ledebouria hyacintha, D.). Small smooth plant 

 with oblong linear leaves, scape round, bearing a raceme of 

 many small dull-pinkish flowers ; ovary roundish, flat-topped, 

 six-grooved. Blmikund. 



I had this at Mahableshwar, but _D. thought it was confined 

 to S. Konkan. H. includes in it Ledebouria maculata, which D. 

 calls common in the Konkans and Deccan, and which springs up 

 everywhere at Bandora as soon as the rain falls. The flowers are 

 alike, but the leaves very different, ovate narrowing into a fleshy 

 petiole, and with dark blotches. I noted as to this also that the 

 pedicels and filaments were of a brighter colour than the perianth. 

 H. calls the flowers (of the combined species) greenish purple with 

 purple filaments, and adds that the leaves when the tips touch the 

 ground produce bulbs ; this, D. says, never occurs in L. maculata. 



8. IPHIGENIA. 



* I. pallida. This H. calls probably a variety of I. Indica, with 

 white flowers and narrow linear leaves; bracts linear leafy. The 

 Konkan, Mahableshwar, and Belgaum (Ritchie, &c.), and this is 

 probably what Dr. Smith and Mr. Birdwood in their Matheran lists 

 call Anguillaria indica. H.'s description of /. Indica, which he attri- 

 butes to the whole of India, is very meagre, and he calls it "a 

 sportive plant." G. had A. Indica under the name of Mdrkallai in 

 the Konkans and at Khandalla. D. has not got it. 



9. GLORIOSA. 



G. superba (Methonia s., D.). A very handsome climber, 

 leaves oblong to lanceolate with long curling tips ; flowers 

 axillary solitary long-stalked, petals about equal, long and 

 narrow, spreading or reflexed, waved or crisped, a mixture of 



