Refugium Botanicum.| (June, 1873, 
TAB. 350. 
Natural Order LiniacE®. 
Tribe ScILLEA. 
Genus OrnrrHoGcALuM, Linn. 
Sub-genus UROPHYLLON, Salis. 
O. scrnnoweEs (Jacq. Hort. Schoen. t. 88). Bulbo magno globoso, 
foliis 5—6 synanthus lorato-lanceolatis pedalibus vel sesqui- 
pedalibus viridibus carnosis ad apicem sensim angustatis, scapo 
valido tereti 13—2-pedali, racemo denso i__1-pedali, pedi- 
cellis ascendentibus 5—6 lin. longis, bracteis linearibus ante 
anthesin comosis, perianthio }—unciali segmentis oblongis 
subacutis albis anguste distincte viridi vittatis, filamentis sub- 
equalibus linearibus perianthio subduplo brevioribus, stylo 
ovario equilongo.—Kunth, Enum. iv. 358. 
A native of Cape Colony, gathered by Mr. Cooper. 
Bulb globose, brown-tunicated, two to three inches thick. 
Leaves five or six, cotemporary with the raceme, lorate-lanceolate, 
a foot to a foot and a half long, an inch and a quarter to an inch 
and a half broad, clasping round the scape at the base, nearly 
flat in the upper half, bright green, fleshy, falcate, narrowed 
gradually to an acute point. Scape firm, terete, a foot and a half 
to two feet long. Raceme dense, half a foot to a foot long, 
eighteen to twenty-one lines broad when expanded. Pedicels 
ascending, the lower ones three-eighths to half an inch long. 
Bracts linear, exceeding the pedicels, protruded beyond the buds 
before the racemes expand. Perianth half an inch long, the 
divisions oblong, subacute, white, with a distinct few-nerved 
narrow green keel. Filaments subequal, rather flattened, half as 
long as the segments. Style as long as the oblong deeply sulcate 
sessile ovary. | 
Tan. 350.1, stamens and pistil; 2, pistil: both magnified, — 
ace Db. 

This plant has spikes of greenish white flowers, which are 
very freely produced. It requires similar treatment to Ormtho- 
galum caudatum (Lab. 262).—W. W.S. 
