Refugiun Botanicum.| [ April, 1868. 
TAB. 16. 
Natural Order Liniacem. 
Tribe ScInLEs. 
Genus Uroperauum, Ker. 
U. Wetwitscui, n. sp. Bulbo rotundato, foliis linearibus duobus plani- 
usculis scapo subequantibus, pedicellis secundis nutantibus vel 
patulis floribus delapsis bracteas superantibus, perianthiis cylindricis 
viridibus, segmentis interioribus connatis exterioribus longioribus 
recurvatis, capsula sequaliter oblonga. 
A native of Angola, received from Dr. Welwitsch. It comes 
nearest to the Mozambique U. longifoliwm, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 
974, 
Bulbs nearly spherical, waxy white. Scape about a foot high, 
erect, slender, terete, glaucous-green, naked. Leaves linear, about 
two lines broad, equalling or slightly exceeding the scape, 
sheathing it at the base, flat upwards, recurved, fleshy in texture, 
minutely ribbed, glaucous-green, naked. Faceme secund, four- 
to six-flowered, three to four inches long. Bracts small, mem- 
branous, lanceolate-acuminate, equalling the flowering but shorter 
than the fruiting pedicels, which are finally two lines long. 
Flowers at first cernuous, finally erecto-patent, green throughout, 
the inner segments of the perianth five-eighths of an inch long, 
connate at the edges, shortly patulous at the tips, the outer 
segments three-fourths to seven-eighths of an inch long, reaching 
down within a quarter of an inch of the base, the outer third 
reflexed, the tip cylindrical. Stamens six, equal, one to each 
seoment from the throat of the united tube. Ovary equally ovate, 
bluntly triquetrous, hardly at all sulcate.—J. G. B. 
This new species of Uropetalum was kindly presented to me 
by my friend Dr. Wellwitsch, who has done so much for the 
Botany of a very little known region of South Africa. It thrives 
well treated in the same way as an Jxia, in sandy loam and peat, 
and grown exposed to the light in a cool greenhouse.—W. W. S. 
