348 CLVI. LILIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Urgima. 



tips, filaments dilated in the middle, style elongate. U. indica, Wight Ic. 

 t. 2063 (sepals very incorrect) excl. Syn. Kunth. Melanthium nudum, 

 Serb. Heyne in Wall. Serb, (misspelt indicum in Cat. 5062 D). 



SOUTH DECCAN, Heyne; sand hills at Tuticorin and Coimbatore, Wight. 



Very near 17. coromandeliana, but differing as above. Wight's figure is good, 

 except that he has made the sepals acuminate, and anthers too slender, very different 

 from his specimens. His character is taken confessedly from Roxburgh's of Scilla 

 indica, from which his figure and specimens differ totally. 



** Leaves and flowers appearing together. 



4. U. congresta, Wight Ic. t. 2064 (left-hand figure) ; leaves appearing 

 with the flowers, raceme many and dense-fld., flowers small suberect, 

 bracts minute deltoid, perianth segments 1-nerved, capsule subglobose. 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 218. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; on the sea coast, Wight. CEYLON; Dambulla, Trimen. 



Bulb about 1 in. diam. Leaves 5-6 in., filiform, grooved above. Scape 6 in., 

 flexuous ; raceme 2-3 in. ; pedicels ^-^ in., suberect. Perianth in. long, white 

 and purplish; filaments flattened below broadly subulate, not longer than the 

 linear oblong large anthers. Capsule ^ in. broad; cells 3-4-seeded. Wight's plate 

 is very incorrect' in respect of the perianth and stamens, Trimen's var. rupicola, 

 (Journ. Bot. 1889, 167) differs in the laxer inflorescence. 



5. U. polyphylla, Hook. f. ; leaves filiform, flowers suberect, bracts 

 longer than the very short pedicels subulate with broad membranous 

 auricles ; sepals all thickened at the tips 5-nerved in the middle, filaments 

 slender, style elongate. Ornithogalum polvphyllum, Herb. Heyne in Wall. 

 Cat. 5062 F. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ? Heyne. 



Bulb not seen. Leaves 8-10 by -^ in., margins involute. Scape longer than 

 the leaves, very slender; raceme terminal, 6-fld.; bracts in., persistent; sepals 

 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse ; filaments nearly as long as the sepals, style as 

 long. There is but one specimen in Herb. Wall., without bulb, it resembles the 

 Cape and European species, and is fastened down with Urginea Wightiana and 

 Dipcade serotina. 



20. SCILLA, Linn. 



Bulbous, scapigerous herbs. Flowers racemed. Perianth persistent 

 stellate or campanulate, segments recurved. Capsule globose, 3-lobed or 

 tridymous, loculicidal, cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds obovoid or subglobose; 

 testa thin, black.-^Species about 80, Europe, As. temp. 



1. S indica, Baker in Saund. Refug. Sot. iii. App. 12 ; in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xiji.^59; leaves oblong, or lanceolate, raceme very many-fld., 

 perianth! in. ,Uam. ^macnlata, ffajcer in Journ. Linn. Soc. I.e. Lede- 

 bouria'h^diithina/^o^AV^ Sp. 195; funth'JSnum. iv. 336; Wight Ic. 

 t.^040 ; Wall. &ai"Ji70 v ; Grah. Cat. Bdmb. PI. 220 ; Dalz. & Gils. Bomb. 

 Fl. 251; Bot. 3fagr. t.'3226 ;<Z)cwe. in Jacguem. Voy. Bot. t. 171. L. 

 maculata, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ij. 143 ; Dalz. & Gibs. L c. Barnardia 

 indica, Wight Ic. t. 2041. Melanthium hyacinthoides & Erythronium in- 

 dicum, Herb. Madr. 

 The DECCAW PENINSULA and CXKTEAL INDIA, from the Concan and Nagpore 



