Refugium Botanicum. | (January, 1870. 
TAB. 175. 
Natural Order Lin1AceZ. 
Tribe HYAcINTHES. 
Genus Hyacintruus, Linn. 
H. princeps (Baker). Foliis 5—6 ascendentibus lorato-lanceolatis bipe- 
dalibus carnoso-herbaceis. viridibus extrorsum planiusculis, scapo 
erecto foliis excedente, racemo lato sublaxo 12—18-floro, pedicellis 
strictis erecto-patentibus imis bracteis lanceolatis duplo longioribus, 
floribus primum cernuis mox erecto-patentibus, perigonio albido 
subsesquipollicari tubo leviter ventricoso, laciniis patulis tubo zgre 
eequantibus interioribus latioribus et brevioribus, filamentis infra 
medium tubi biseriatis longitudine perigonii tres-quadrantes equan- 
tibus, stylo ovario paullulum longiore, capsula oblonga obtuse trisul- 
cata, seminibus triquetris in loculis copiosis. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, drawn from the living 
collection at Kew. 
Bulb, general habit, and leaves quite similar to those of the 
last, but the leaves not glaucous. aceme broader and shorter, 
the flowers at first drooping, but the capsule not at all so. 
Perianth not so pure white as in the last and not quite so large, 
the tube greenish on the outside, slightly ventricose, seven to 
eight lines deep by three-eighths of an inch in thickness, the 
divisions spreading horizontally when fully expanded, scarcely 
equalling the tube, the inner three a little shorter and broader 
than the outer ones. Stamens inserted below the middle of the 
tube, the pure white filaments in two contiguous rows, cuneately 
deltoid at the base, filiform above it, nine to ten lines long, eight 
or ten times as long as the fully-developed anthers. Ovary as in 
the last, but elevated on a broad torus, the style a little longer. 
Capsule as in the last, with the seeds copious and biseriate in the 
cells. 
These are two magnificent additions to our list of cultivated 
Inliacee. Although so different in habit from the previously- 
known species of Hyacinthus, the principal technical difference 
is in the much more numerous and angular seeds. As we have 
characterised it on the preceding page, Hyacinthus includes Bel- 
levallia of Lapeyrouse, Peribea of Kunth, and Strangweia of Par- 
latore. ‘The extremes differ from one another a good deal in 
the shape of the capsule and the number of seeds, and in the 
insertion and shape of the filaments, but we do not see that any 
