Dipcadi."] CLVI. LILIAOEJI. (J. D. Hooker.) 347 



racemes few-fld., perianth f in. long green lobes subeqnal, three outer 

 about equalling the tube, capsule i- in. broad. 



SCINDE ; on the lower hills, Stocks. 



A much smaller and stouter plant than D. serotinum with green flowers. 

 Capsule quadrate, retuse above and below. Seeds - in. diam., orbicular. 

 Possibly a state of D. serotinum, but a very different-looking plant. 



6. I>. hydsuricum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 397 ; leaves 4-6 

 in., scape tall, raceme elongate, bracts much shorter than the pedicels, 

 perianth f in. long green or pale pink. Uropetalum hydsuricum, Edgew. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 88. 



The PANJAB, at Loodiana, Edgeworth. 



The short bracts are the best character of this species, which closely resembles 

 D. serotinum in habit. In a drawing of what I take to be this, in Falconer's 

 collection, the tube of the corolla is pale green, the lobes very pale pink. 



19. URGINEA, Steinh. 



Bulbous, scapigerous herbs. Flowers racemed. Perianth campanulate 

 of 6 subequal segments. Stamens included. Capsule oblong, triquetrous, 

 loculicidal, many-seeded. Seeds flat, testa black, membranous. Species 

 about 24, S. European, W. Asiatic, and African. 



* Flowers appearing before the leaves. 



1. U. indica, Kunth Enum. iv. 333 ; leaves |-1 in. broad, flowers 

 distant long-pedicelled drooping, bracts evanescent, perianth segments 

 3-nerved in the middle, capsule oblong. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 222 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 250. U. senegalensis, Kunth I. c. 334. 

 Scilla indica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 147 ; Grah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 220. S. Gun- 

 dria and S. denudata, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5062, A, B, C, E, H. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Garwhal, Kumaon and the Salt Range, ascending to 6000 

 ft. BEHAR, the CONCAN and COROMANDEL coasts. BURMA, Wallich. DISTRIB. 

 Trop. Africa. 



Bulb the size of an apple, bitter, nauseous. Leaves 6-18 in., subbifarious, linear, 

 flat, acute. Scape erect, 12-18 in., brittle ; raceme 6-12 in., erect; flowers very 

 distant; pedicels 1-1^ in., spreading or decurved. Perianth -f in. diam., greenish 

 white, nerves green, tips rounded ; filaments flattened below ; style narrowly oboonic. 

 Capsule i-f in., subacute, cells 6-9-set-ded. Seeds in. diam. 



2. U. coromandeliana, HooJc.f. (not of Wight), leaves very narrow, 

 flowers long-pedicelled drooping, bracts minute ovate acute persistent, 

 sepals 1-nerved, inner bearded at the tips, style very short obconic. 

 Scilla coromandeliana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 147. 



COROMANDEL coast ; on sand hills, Roxburgh. 



Bulb globose, 1| in. diam. Leaves 6-8 by in., subacute. Scape 12-18 in.; 

 pedicels 1-H iu- ; bracts in. Flowers dull green and purplish ; sepals 5 in. long, 

 tips rounded ; filaments clavate ; style shorter than the ovary, narrowly obconic. 

 Described from Roxburgh's excellent drawing, and the characters given in his Flora 

 Indica. U. coromandeliana, Wight is Dipcade serotinum (as his Herbarium proves) 

 with the perianth and stamens very incorrectly represented. 



3. TJ. Wigrhtiana, Hoolc.f.\ flowers long-pedicelled on the decurved 

 or suberect raceme, bracts evanescent, sepals 1-nerved all bearded at the 



