709 



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Ukginea, Steinh. 

 Urginea altissima. Baker; Fl. Troj). Afr. VII. p. 538. 



///. — Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i, t. 87 {Ornithogahim gigantewn); 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1074 {Drimia altissima); De Wildeman, Mission 



E. Laurent, t. 85. 



Vcrnac. name. — Magerman (Zwartland, S. Africa, Pappe). 



Nuj^e (Barter, No. 3432, Herb. Ke"\v), and in Sierra Leone,. 

 Loango, Kyasaland and South Africa. 



One of the plants of which the bulbs are used in place of 

 the officinal '' squill " (Z7. maritima, Baker); biit which owing to 

 the abundance and low price of the latter never appear in the 

 Euroi3ean market (Fllickiger & Hanbury, Pharmacog. p. 093); 

 resembles maritima in its effects and may be prescribed as a 

 substitute (Pappe, Fl. Cap. Med. Prod. p. 41). 



Bulb globose, 4-6 in. in diam. outer tunics brown, common 

 beween Ilorin and the Niger, spike often 7 or 8 ft. high, flowers- 

 white (Barter, I.e.). 



Urginea indica, Kuntli; Fl. Trop. Afr. VII. p. 540. 



///.—Wight, Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 2063. 



Vernac. names. — [Basal-el-Unsal, Basel-el-far (Arabia), Pizat- 

 i-dashti (Persia) Dymock, Warden & Hooper^.— See Onion, Rats'' 

 Onion and Wild Onion (being a translation of the Arabic and 

 Persian names), Lidian Squill. 



Nupe (Barter, No. 1099, Herb. Kew) and in Senega jnbia. 

 Sierra Leone, Eritrea, British East Africa and India. 



Bulb used for similar purposes to that of the officinal " squill '^ 

 {sec above) ; though said to be a poor substitute (Mooden Sheriff, 

 SuppL to Pharm. Indica, Madras, 1869, p. 250), having little or 

 no action when it is old and large (FlUckiger & Hanbury, I.e.); 

 though also said to be as useful as the officinal squill (Watt,. 

 Diet. Econ. Prod, India). The Hindus use the bulb in the 

 preparation of *' Chaudi-bhasma " or " ashes of silver," used 

 medicinally. The officinal squill [U, maritima) is dried and 

 imported into England from Malta. 



Bulb globose, 2-3 in. in diam., flowers dull green (Barter, I.e. )^ 

 found in sandy soil, especially near the sea throughout India 



(Watt, I.e.). 



ReJ, — ** Bulbus Scillae,'' in Pharmacographia*, Fluckiger k 



Hanbury, pp. 690-693. '' Urginea >Sd//a,— Squill," in Med. 



PI. Bentley & Triraen, No. 281, pages 5.— — " Urginea indica,''' 



in Pharmacographia Indica, Dymock, Warden & Hooper, iii. 



pp. 476-479, -" Urginea indica,'" in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, 



vi.pt. 4, 1893, pp. 213-214. 



Gloriosa, Linn. 



Gloriosa superba, Linyi. ; EL Trop. Afr. VII. p. 563. 



III. — Herman, Hort, Lugclui Batavorum, t. 689 {Metoiiica 

 malabaroriim) ; Plukenet. Phyt. i. t. 116, f. 3 {Metonica mala- 

 harorum); Commelin, Hort, Med. Amstel. PI. i. t. 35 (Lilium 



