■524 CXL. LiLiACEJS (baker). [PseudogolUmia. 



3-celled ; ovules many in a cell, superposed ; style subulate ; stigma 

 minute, capitate. Fruit and seeds unknown. — Lindneria^ Dur. et 

 Lubb. 



Monotypic. Endemic. 



1 . P. Pechueliiy Kuntze in Jahrh. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin^ iv. 274. 

 Bulb globose, 6-10 in. diam., crowned with copious fibrous relics of old 

 leaves. Leaves 6-8, sessile, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, suberect, glabrous, 

 1-1 J ft. long, l|-2 in. broad low down. Peduncle terete, stiffly erect, 

 longer than the leaves. Raceme dense, 100-flowered, 8-10 in. long; 

 pedicels lJ-2 in. long, upper cernuous, lower ascending ; bracts lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, half as long as the pedicels. Perianth greenish -white, 

 1 1-1 J in. long ; segments half as long as the tube. Anthers nearly as 

 long as the filaments. Style not exserted. — Lindneriajibrillosa, Dur. et 

 Lubb. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxvi. ccxvii. t. 18; Baker in Gard. 

 Chron. 1890, viii. 240. 



Jto-wer Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland, Pechuel-Loische. 



Imported alive from Damaraland in 1886 by Mr. Lindner, and flowered at tbe 

 Brussels Botanic Garden in 1888. 



No specimen at Kew. 



20. HYACINTHUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook, f . Gen. 

 Plant, iii. 812. 



Perianth gamophyllous ; tube campanulate or oblong ; segments 

 suhequal, spreading upwards. Stamens G, inserted in the tube, shorter 

 than the perianth; filaments filiform or flattened at the base; anthers 

 versatile. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 3-celled ; ovules few, superposed ; style 

 subulate; stigma small, capitate. Capsule loculicidally o-valved, not 

 deeply lobed. Seeds subglobose; testa black ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 cylindrical. — Rootstock a timicated bulb. Leaves contemporary with 

 the flowers, generally sessile, linear or lorate. Inflorescence racemose ; 

 bracts scariose, persistent. 



Species 30, mostly Mediterranean and Oriental, 1 Madagascar, 2 in South Africa. 



1. H. ledebourioides, Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. xi. 427. 

 Bulb small, ovoid or subglobose, |-1 in. diam.; outer tunics pale, mem- 

 branous. Leaves 3-6, oblong or linear-oblong, glabrous, 1-1 J in. long, 

 narrowed into a distinct petiole. Peduncle very slender, 2-3 in. long. 

 Raceme dense or moderately dense, 1-2 in. long ; pedicels short ascend- 

 ing, articulated at the apex ; bracts minute, deltoid. Perianth cylin- 

 drical, \ in. long ; tube subcylindrical ; segments linear- oblong, white, 

 with a slender 1-nerved brown keel, twice as long as the tube. 

 Anthers subsessile, biseriate, inserted above the middle of the perianth- 

 tube. Capsule depresso-globose, emarginate, ^ in. diam. Seeds 

 solitary. 



Mozamb. 2>ist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Sena, Kirk ! 

 Shupanga, in dry places on the tertiary bills, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasa- 



