Refugium Botanicum. | (January, 1870. 
TAB. 174. 
Natural Order LintAcem. 
Tribe HyAcINTHE. 
Genus Hyacintuus (Linn. ex parte). Perigonium corollinum, cam- 
panulato- vel infundibuliformi-gamophyllum, ore nullo modo con- 
stricto, laciniis falcato-recurvatis vel subrectis tubo eequantibus vel 
duplo-triplo brevioribus. Stamina uniseriata vel biseriata, in tubo 
vel ad faucem inserta, filamentis elongatis filiformibus vel brevibus 
cuneato-complanatis, antheris versatilibus oblongis vel linearibus. 
Ovarium sessile, oblongo vel rotundato-trigonum, ovulis in loculis 
numerosis vel paucis. Stylus filiformis erectus. Stigma capitato- 
trisulcatum. Capsula membranacea, sessilis, oblonga vel rotun- 
data, acute vel obtuse trigona, loculicide trivalvis, seminibus paucis 
nullo modo compressis superpositis vel triquetris biseriatis nume- 
rosis. ‘Testa nigra membranacea. Herbe bulbose, foliis plerisque 
carnoso-herbaceis linearibus floribus racemosis speciosis. 
H. canpicans (Baker). Foliis 5—6 ascendentibus lorato-lanceolatis 
bipedalibus vel ultra carnoso-herbaceis glaucescentibus extrorsum 
planiusculis, scapo erecto firmo tripedali vel ultra, racemo laxo sub- 
pedali 12—20-floro, pedicellis cernuis imis floribus subequantibus, 
bracteis lanceolatis pollicaribus, perigonio sesquipollicari albo la- 
ciniis subeequalibus obovato-lanceolatis erecto-patentibus tubo infun- 
dibuliformi-campanulato subduplo longioribus, filamentis ex fauce 
tubi subuniseriatis laciniis brevioribus, stylo ovario subsquante, 
capsula oblonga obtuse trisulcata, seminibus triquetris biseriatis in 
loculis numerosis. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, distributed in the dried 
collections of Drege (5529), and introduced recently in a living 
state by Mr. Cooper. 
Bulb large, round, tunicated. Leaves five or six to a bulb, 
contemporaneous with the flowers, lorate-lanceolate, suberect 
with the upper part recurved, fleshy-herbaceous in_texture, two 
to two and a half feet long by eighteen to twenty-one lines broad, 
clasping the base of the scape, but nearly flat in the upper part, 
narrowed gradually from three-quarters of the way up to an acute 
point, both sides a pale glaucous-green, the veins thirty to forty, 
visible but not raised. Scape firm, erect, terete, glaucous, three 
to four lines in thickness, three to three and a half feet long 
exclusive of the raceme. Raceme a foot long and five inches in 
