Refugium Botanicum.| (April, 1868. 
TAB. 17. 
Natural Order Lini1acem. 
Tribe ScILLEA. 
Genus Uroprerauum, Ker. 
U. umBonatum, n. sp. Bulbo ovato, foliis linearibus duobus supra 
planiusculis infra convexis scapo subeequantibus, pedicellis secundis 
nutantibus floribus delapsis bracteas duplo brevioribus, perianthiis 
cylindricis viridibus, segmentibus interioribus connatis, exterioribus 
longioribus recurvatis, capsula obovata oblonga supra umbonata. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, collected by Mr. Hutton. 
Bulb ovate, white, much smaller than in the preceding. Scape 
about a foot high, erect, slender, terete, naked. Leaves linear, 
about a quarter of an inch broad, equalling or slightly exceeding 
the scape, sheathing it at the base, hemispherically convex in the 
lower part, flat towards the point, recurved, fleshy in texture, 
minutely ribbed, glaucous-green, naked. Staceme secund, ulti- 
mately nearly as long as the scape, with six to nine flowers. 
Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, scariose, twice as long as the pedi- 
cels, which are ultimately two and a half to three lines long. 
Flowers at first cernuous, finally erecto-patent, green throughout, 
the inner segments of the perianth half an inch long, connate at 
the edges, shortly patulous at the tips, the outer ones recurved, 
half as long again, the tips cylindrical. Stamens six, equal, one 
to each segment from the throat of the united tube. Ovary 
obovate-oblong, umbonate upwards, more deeply sulcate than in 
the preceding. From our U. Welwitschi it differs by its smaller 
and differently shaped bulb, larger bracts, more numerous and 
shorter flowers, and differently shaped ovary. It has narrower 
leaves than U. longifolum, more numerous flowers, outer divisions 
of the perianth longer, and inner with less spreading tips.— 
vaGe ls. 7 
I received the bulbs of this plant, some years since, from Mr. 
Plant, who found them in the Natal district of S.E. Africa. It 
requires the same treatment as the preceding species, and flowers 
freely.—W. W. S. 
