Hefugium Botanicuni.] 
[March, 1871. 
TAB. 258. 
Natural Order Liliace^. 
Tribe Mille^e. 
Genus Mill a, Cav. 
Section Hesperoscordum {Lindl.) 
M. POERiFOLiA {Baker in Linn. Proc. xi. 386.) Bulbo ovoideo, foliis 4 — 6 
carnoso-lierbaceis viridibus glabris anguste linearibus scapo ex- 
cedentibus, spatlise valvis duabus lanceolatis basi connatis pedicellis 
subaequantibus, umbellis 4 — 8-floris, perianthii infundibuliformi 
segmeDtis lanceolatis albis viridi-caiinatis tubo 2 — 3-plo excedentibus, 
starainibus in tubo inclusis biseriatis, ovario sessili oblongo loculis 
4 — 6-ovulatis, stylo filiformi ovario excedente. — Triteleia porrifolia, 
Popp. Fragm. p. 10 ; Kuntli, Enum. iv. 468 ; C. Gay, Fl. Chil. 
vi. p. 118. 
A native of Chili, gathered by Poppig, Beechey, Cuming, &c. 
Bulb ovoid, tunicated, eight to twelve lines thick, with white 
membranous coats. Scapes one or two from a root, erect, slender, 
six to nine inches high. Leaves four to six to a bulb, glabrous, 
fleshy-herbaceous, linear, a line and a half to two lines broad, 
channelled down the face, overtopping the flowers. Flowers four 
to eight in an umbel on pedicel^ nine to twelve lines long. Valves 
of spathe two, linear, connate downwards. Perianth funnel- 
shaped, nine to ten lines deep ; the divisions lanceolate, acute, 
white, keeled with green, two to three times as long as the tube. 
Stamens biseriate, included within the tube; the filaments three 
or four times as long as the anthers. Ovary sessile, oblong, with 
four to six ovules in each cell. Style filiform, exceeding the 
ovary, tipped with a trisulcate stigma. Seeds black, a line long, 
irregularly obovoid-triquetrous. 
Tab. 258. — 1, complete flower ; 2, vertical section of flower ; 3, hori- 
zontal section of ovary : all magnified. — J. G. B. 
I received bulbs of this neat little plant from E. C. Reed, who 
procured them, from the neighbourhood of St. Jago de Chili. It 
needs only the protection of a cool frame during the winter, and 
the open air in summer, potted in a mixture of turfy loam and 
leaf-mould.— TF. W. S. 
