542 CXL. LiLiACB-s; (baker). [Urginea. 



20. XJ. nigritana. Baker in Journ. Lhm. Soc. xiii. 224. Bulb 

 moderately large ; outer tunics copiously fibrous at the apex. Leaves 

 linear, glabrous, channelled down the face, 1-1 J ft. long. Peduncle 

 stiffly erect, 1|— 2 ft. long. Raceme lax, finally 1-1 J ft. long; upper 

 pedicels short ; lower finally 1-1 J in. long ; bracts lanceolate, acuminate ; 

 lower |-f in. long. Perianth J-f in. long; segments linear-oblong, 

 whitish, with a broad laxly 5-nerved red-brown keel. Stamens shorter 

 tlian the perianth ; anthers oblong, y^- in. long ; filaments linear. Style 

 reaching to the tips of the perianth. Capsule ovoid, shallowly lobed, 

 J-J in. long. 



' tipper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Falaba, on bare open spots, Scott-Elliot^ 5171 ! 

 and on the laterite plateau on the way to Sulimania, Scott-Elliot, 5289 ! interior of 

 Western Lagos, Rowland ! Niger Territory : Nupe ; common in open places, between 

 Ijayo and Ilorin, Barter, 3335 ! and at Jeba, on the River Niger, Barter ! 



urile ]Land. British East Africa : Mittn ; Dimido (Dimindu), Schweinfurth, 

 2796 ! Niamniam, at tlie River Boddo, Schweinfurth, ser. iii. 168 ! Uganda ; 

 Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 733? ! 



21. XJ. acinacifolia, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 

 xxxi. 220. Bulb medium-sized, globose. Leaves 5-6, contemporary with 

 the flowers, linear, glabrous, very acuminate, 1 J-2 ft. long. Peduncle 

 stiffly erect, 3 ft. long. Raceme lax, 1 ft. long ; pedicels short, ascend- 

 ing ; bracts linear-subulate, i-1 in. long. Perianth 1 in. long ; segments 

 linear-oblong, whitish, with a broad laxly 5-nerved red-brown keel. 

 Stamens rather shorter than the perianth ; anthers oblong, ^ in. long ; 

 filaments linear. Style subulate, J- in. long. Capsule ovoid, 1 in. long, 

 not deeply lobed. 



]Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; at Oshando, ScJiinz, 

 24! 



Imperfectly known species. 



22. XJ. quartiniana, Solms in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. jEthiop. 294. 

 Bulb small, ovoid. Leaves linear, glabrous. Peduncle 0-8 in. long, 

 slender. Raceme lax, 3-G -flowered ; pedicels short ; bracts linear, twice 

 as long as the pedicels. Perianth ^-J in. long ; segments oblong, 

 cucullate at the apex, with very thin margins and a stouter middle. 

 Filaments nearly as long as the perianth. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xiii. 223. Scilla quartiniana, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 329. 



STile Iiand. Abyssinia : Shire, Quartin- Dillon. 

 No specimen at Kew. 



25. DRIMIOPSIS, Lindl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 813. 



Perianth campanulate ; segments subequal, ovate or oblong, without 

 any distinct dorsal rib, cucullate at the apex, connate only at the very 

 base. Stamens 6, shorter than the perianth, attached to the base of the 

 segments ; filaments very short, dilated ; anthers ovoid, versatile. Ovary 

 sessile, globose, 3-celled ; ovules 2 in a cell, collateral ; style short, 

 subulate; stigma minute, capitate. Capsule globose, locuUcidally 3-valved. 



