NEW NATAL PLANTS. 251 
var. argillacea Towns. I have not seen any specimens ‘np the 
description, Herr Kiikenthal is inclined to refer that also to C. 
, 18 var. oedocarpa. One of the specimens 
on my sheet of C. Hornschuchiana from Pirbright Common is a 
Bia with oedocarpa. 
C. acutiformis Khrh. In the Wey valley, about Elstead and 
Tilford, the usual, perhaps the only form is that with cuspidate 
glumes (C. spadicea Roth). 
; NEW NATAL PLANTS. 
By J. Mrepitry Woop, A.L.S., anp M. 8. Evans, F.Z.S. 
(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1897, p. 490.) 
DECADE III. 
21. Scilla palustris, sp.nov. Bulbus ovoideus coarctans supra, 
3-12 poll. diam. ; folia 4-6, lanceolata, < 12 poll. longa, 4-3 poll. 
lata; pedunculi 4-6 mal lon ngi, racemi oblongi, 14-2 poll. longi, 
laxe multiflori; pedicelli tenues, jekasores 5-6 lin. longi; bractez 
minut » deltoidie, persia segmenta erecta, 14-2 lin. longa; 
ovarium stipitatu semina magna. 
ab. Natal: in swamp near Newcastle, 3900 ped. alt., December; 
J. Medley Wood, No. 650 
Differs from S. me eon Baker by its shorter and narrower 
leaves, which are usually more,t ee bio by its shorter and denser 
raceme, and erect not cernuous tay 
buea, affinis, sp. n Bu “lbs seers 4-14 poll. diam. 
cum tunicis “diffende ntibus sttimeroals fibris apice; folia 4-10 
pedicelli adscendentes, recurvi, inferiores, pervenientes ad 24 poll. 
longos; bractere late lanceolate cum longo cuspide acuminato, 
pene omnino pedicellum amplectentes basi, scariose, pluribus 
nacea, atti teze ro tee 
basi, inferiores 3 poll. longe ; flores perpetuo erecti, perianthium 
5-9 lin. longum, album cum lata linea viridi; stamina omnia 
fertilia, tria autem ree sem minora, et cum minore polline; stylus 
prismaticus, stigma conicum. 
Hab : on piece hills, Van Reenen’s Pass, Ds 
6 
2 
are a different shape, and stripe on the perianth is green, not brown, 
