Refugium Botanicum. | (April, 1868. 
TAB. 18. 
Natural Order LintacE®. 
Tribe ScILLE. 
Genus Drimia, Jacq. 
D. Coopert, n. sp. Foliis oblongo-lanceolatis immaculatis patulis scapo 
duplo longioribus, racemis multifloris densis scapis eequantibus, 
pedicellis nutantibus floribus equantibus, perianthiis viridibus extus 
purpurascentibus, tubo laciniis lanceolatis eequante. 
An inhabitant of the Cape of Good Hope, imported by Mr. 
Cooper. 
Several bulbs diverging from a common centre, an inch and a 
half to two inches thick, the coats membranous, dark purplish, 
truncate upwards. Leaves about six, four to five inches long, by 
an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half broad when full- 
grown, oblong-lanceolate, blunt, succulent in texture, entirely 
without spots, the veins fine and immersed, both sides bright 
green, naked, glossy, uniform in colour. Scape two to three 
inches long, erect, terete, green. taceme equalling or finally 
exceeding the scape, densely thirty- to forty-flowered, the pedicels 
cernuous, nearly as long as the perianth, which is campanulate, 
three-eighths of an inch deep at first, one-fourth of an inch deep 
when fully expanded, green on the inside, but purplish red on the 
outside towards the base, the divisions reaching about half-way 
down, spreading when the flower is fully developed. Stamens 
six, inserted at the base of the segments and about equalling 
them. Ovary roundish, three-celled, with two ovules in each cell. 
Of the published species it comes nearest to D. Gawleri and 
lanceefolia, from both of which its denser and more copiously 
flowered racemes, shorter pedicels and leaves, twice as long as 
the scape, will readily distinguish it.—J. G. B. 
Through the exertions of Mr. T. Cooper, I have received this 
and a number of other species of Drimia from South Africa, 
several of which are new to Science. Many of them are well 
worth cultivating on account of their beautiful leaves, marked 
with either dark spots or lines. The species do well in a 
mixture of decayed turf and sandy loam, with plenty of drainage. 
They require a light airy greenhouse, and a season of moderately 
dry rest when the leaves fade.—W. W. S. 
