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numerous-pedicelled, of a beautiful, bright-blue, violet colour. In 

 the same situations as the preceding. 



CXXXVI. LILIACE^. 



1. METHONIA, Herm. 



I. M SuPERBA, Lam. Encycl. iv, 133. — A climbing plant, with 

 bulbous, biennial root; stem herbaceous; leaves cirrhiferous; inferior 

 oblong; superior ovate-lanceolate; perigonium of six lanceolate, 

 undulate leaflets, yellow, with a scarlet base; capsule 3-celled, 

 3-valved. Syn. Gloriosa superba, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 143; 

 Rlieed. Mai. vii, t. 57. Pretty common in hedges ; flowers large. 

 Native names " Buchnag," " Kalawee," " Karianag." Root is said 

 to be poisonous. 



2. URGINIA, Steinh. 



1. U Indica, Kunth. Enum. iv. — Bulb tunicated ; leaves 

 numerous, radical ensiform, nearly flat, 6 to 18 inches long ; scape 

 erect, round, smooth, naked, 2 to 3 feet long; raceme long, 

 erect; flowers remote, long-pedicelled, drooping, inconspicuous, 

 of a dingy, brownish colour, appear long before the leaves. Sandy 

 shores of the Concan, common ; at Hurnee, abundant. Generally 

 called " Jungly Piaz." Syn. Scilla^ indica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 147. 



3. UROPETALUM, Gawler. 



1. U MoNTANUM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 142. — Root 

 a small, tunicated bulb ; scape round, about a foot high ; raceme 

 drooping, about 8-flowered ; leaves linear, folded, as long as the 

 scape ; corolla white between, tubular and campanulate, 8 lines long ; 

 exterior divisions oblong-obtuse, a little longer than the tube ; 

 interior united to ^ the middle, all glandular at the apex; bracts 

 scarious, acuminated, longer than the pedicels ; capsule stalked, 

 3-lobed ; cells 3 to 4-seeded. In the Western Deccan,in pastures, 

 also at Belgaum ; flowers in August. 



2. U CoNCANENSE, Dalz. loc. cit. — Scape round, 8 to 10 inches 

 high; raceme drooping, 3 to 4-flowered ; leaves half round, fleshy, 

 filiform, few, deeply grooved above, a half shorter than the scape ; 

 corol white, tubular, an inch and a-half long ; exterior divisions half 

 the length of the tubCj spreading ; interior united to the middle, all 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, papillous and glandular at the apex ; capsule 

 3-lobed ; cells 6-seeded ; seeds flat, black, shining, and smooth. In 

 rocky places in the Malwan Talooka ; flowers in August. 



