LILIACEJE. 



corides. Malta, Cadiz, and probably in other parts of the Me- 

 diterranean. 



Bulb about half the size of the last species, pale green or whitish 

 green ; or occasionally red. Leaves much shorter, more acute, erect 

 and narrower. Stem more glaucous. Flowers smaller, more com- 

 pactly arranged, with shorter bracts. Flower-stalks shorter Flower- 

 bud more blunt. Petals and sepals spread fully out, white, oval, obtuse, 

 mucronulate, marked with a pale pink line along the middle of the 

 back. By these characters M. Steinheil distinguishes a second species 

 of Officinal Squill, which he believes to have been the true Pancration 

 of Dioscorides, which, according to that author, was very like Squills in 

 its effects, but milder. 



1252. S. indica Roxb.fi. ind. i. 147. Sandy shores of vari- 

 ous parts of India. 



Bulb round, white, perennial, tunicated, about the size of a large 

 apple. Leaves numerous, radical, sub-bifarious, ensiform, nearly flat, 

 smooth on both sides, from 6 to 18 inches long. When in blossom 

 the plant is perfectly destitute of leaves. Scape erect, round, smooth, 

 naked ; including the raceme from 2 to 3 feet long. Raceme very 

 long, erect. Flowers remote, long-pedicelled, drooping. Roxb. 

 The taste of the bulb is fully as nauseous and bitter as that of S. mari- 

 tima, and may be possessed of the same qualities. Roxb. I leave 

 this in the same genus as the Officinal Squill, notwithstanding that it is 

 quite possible it may not belong to it. No one seems to have noticed 

 the plant except Roxburgh, and I have never seen a specimen of it. 



1253. Scilla Lilio-Hyacinthus Linn, has purgative bulbs, 

 according to De Candolle. 



LEDEBOURIA. 



Perianth 6-leaved, permanent. Stamens inserted into the 

 base of the perianth. Ovary 3-parted, pedicellate, roundish ; 

 style capillary, quite simple ; stigma acuminate. Utricles 3, 

 connected at the base, 1 -seeded; 2 often abortive, and in that 

 case the third obovate and curved. 



1254. L. hyacinthoides Both. nov. sp. 195. R. and S. vii. 365. 

 Erythronium indicum Rottler. Bundelkund. 



A small bulbous plant looking something like Scilla autumnalis. 

 Bulb ovate, the size of a pigeon's egg. Leaves 2-5, flaccid, often 

 curved inwards and doubled up. Scape slender, erect, smooth, about 

 as long as the cylindrical raceme, which does not exceed an inch in 

 length. Peduncles spreading, filiform, very much longer than the 

 minute scale-like bracts. Flowers apparently pink or light purple ; 

 segments linear, curved inwards at the point. Stamens violet; anthers 

 nearly round. According to Theodore Martius the bulbs are used as 

 a substitute for Squills, in the East Indies. Ainslie states that they 

 are employed in cases of strangury and fever in horses. 



ALLIUM. 



Flowers umbellate, with a membranous spathe. Perianth 



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