348 CLvi. LiLiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) lUrginea. 



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

 t. 2063 (sepals very incorrect) excl. 8yn. Kwnth. Melanthinm nudum, 

 Serb. Seyne in Wall. Serb, (misspelt indiowm in Cat. 5062 D). 



South Dbccan, Heyne; sand hills at Tuticorin and Coimbatore, Wight. 



Very near U. 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 Soxhurgh's of Scilla 

 indiea, from which his figure and specimens differ totally. 



** Leaves and flowers appearing together. 



4. XT. cong'esta, Wight Ic. t. 2064 (left-hand figure) ; leaves appearing 

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

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

 Baker in Joum. Linn. Soc. xiii. 218. 



Decoan Peninsttla ; on the sea coast, Wight. Cetlon ; Dambulla, Trimen. 



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

 flexuous i raceme 2-3 in. j pedicels -^j— g in., suberect. Perianth i in. long, white 

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

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

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

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



5. TT. polyphylla, Soak. 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 polyphyllum, Serb. Seyne in Wall. 

 Gat. 5062 F. 



Dbcoan Peninsuia? Meyne. 



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

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

 3 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 

 JHpeade seroiina. 



20. SCX&ZiA, Linn. 



Bulbous, scapigerous herbs. Flowers racemed. Perianth persistent 

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

 tridymouB, locnlioidal, cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds obovoid or subglobose; 

 testa thin, black. — Species about 80, Europe, As. temp. 



1. S. indiea, Baker in Savmd. Biefug. Bot. iii. App. 12 ; in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xiii. 250 ; leaves oblong or lanceolate, raceme very many-fld., 

 perianth i in. diam. 8. maeulata, Balcer in Journ. Limn. Soc. I. c. Lede- 

 bouria hyaeinthina. Both Nov. Sp. 195 ; Kunth JEnum. iv. 336 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 2040 ; WaU. Gat. 6170 ; Grah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 220 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 251; Bot. Mag. t. 3226; Done, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. t. 171. L. 

 maeulata, Dalz. in Sook. Kew Journ. ii. 143 ; Dalz. & Gibs. I. c. Baruardia 

 indioa, Wight Ic. t. 2041. Melanthinm hyacinthoides & Erythronium in- 

 dicam, Serb. Mad/r. 

 The Deooak PeninsuIiA and Cixibaij India, from the Concan and Nagpore 



