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3. Dipcadi Medic. 
Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves all radical, usually narrowly 
linear. 
Inflorescence a lax raceme. Flowers usually small, greenish. 
Perianth tubular ; tube cylindric ; segments 6, erect, the outer recurved 
from about the middle, the inner at the tips only. Stamens 6, inserted 
in the throat of the perianth, included ; filaments short or 0 ; anthers 
linear, versatile, dehiscing introrsely. Ovary stipitate or sessile, 
3-celled; ovules many in each cell ; style short, straight; stigma 8-lobed. 
Capsule membranous, sub globose or broadly obovate, deeply 3-sulcate, 
sessile or stalked, loculicidally 3-valved, few- or many-seeded. Seeds in 
each cell 6-20, compressed ; testa black, membranous. 
Species about 30. 
Distribution : — S. Europe, Africa, W. Asia. 
1. Dipcadi erytliraeura Webb, et Berth. Hist. Nat. Canar. Ill, 
(1848) 341 ; Baker in Dourn. Linn. Soc. XI, 408; Cooke FI. Bomb. 
Pres. II, 770, 
Uropetalum erythraeum Boiss, FI. Or. V, 286. 
Hyacinthus serotinus Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 209 ; Del. FI. d'Eg, 
p. 2. 
Dipcadi unicolor Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. XI (1870) 397 ; Hook, 
FI. Brit. Ind. VI, 346. 
Description : — Bulb tunicate, inch in diameter. Leaves 6-8 by 
J-g- inch, narrowly linear. Scape 4-7 inches long. 
Flowers greenish, in lax 6 — 12-flowered racemes 4-6 inches long; 
bracts |-| inch long, the lower the longest, ovate, finely acuminate ; 
pedicels inch long. Perianth campanulate, f inch long; outer 
lobes | by J inch, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, with indurated tips, 7 -nerved; 
inner lobes similar, 5-nerved. Ovary sessile, J inch long, elliptic- 
obovoid. 
Capsule J-f inch long and as broad, slightly cuneate at the base, on 
a stout stalk J-J inch long, transversely veined. Seeds inch in 
diameter, orbicular, flat, black. 
Locality : — Little Aden : in sandv places at the foot of Jebel Ihsan 
(Defl.). 
Distribution : — Nubia, Egypt, Arabia, Sind. 
LII.-COMMELINACEdE. 
Herbs, rarely climbing or undershrubs. Leaves costate, bases 
sheathing, nerves parallel. Inflorescence various. Flowers usually 
