Refugium Botanicum.] (January, 1870. 
TAB. 177. 
Natural Order Lintace&. 
Tribe ScILLEA. 
Genus ORNITHOGALUM, Linn. 
Sub-genus Uropuyiton, Salisb.« Flores 6—100 in racemis elongatis 
dispositee. Lacinia oblongo-lanceolata, 14—2 lin. lata alba distincte 
Viridi-vittata mox recte patula. Filamenta hypogyna laciniis sub- 
duplo breviora. Stylus elongatus. 
O. acumtnatum (Baker). Foliis 10—12 bipedalibus firmis anguste ensi- 
formibus ascendentibus viridibus sursum sensim angustatis apice 
longe acuminatis, scapis 2—3 gracilibus foliis eequantibus, racemo 
elongato angustato 830—50-floro, pedicellis strictis erecto-patentibus 
floribus brevioribus, bracteis linearibus sesquipollicaribus, perigonio 
semipollicari, laciniis subeequalibus oblongis albis apice fornicatis 
dorso distincte viridi-vittatis, staminibus lanceolatis subsequalibus 
perigonio duplo brevioribus, stylo ovario eequante. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Bulb round, two inches thick, with pale gray outer coats. 
Leaves ten or twelve to a bulb, clasping the scapes tightly at the 
base, the central ones erect, two feet long, an inch broad above 
the base, narrowed gradually upwards to a long acumen, mode- 
rately firm in texture, both sides pale green, the face considerably 
concave, with about a dozen darker ribs. Scapes two or three to 
a bulb, equalling the leaves, flexuose, terete, naked, pale green, 
two lines thick. Jtaceme thirty- to forty-flowered, at first three 
to four inches, finally a foot long, an inch broad when fully 
expanded. Pedicels erecto-patent, the lowest three to four lines 
long. Bracts linear, greenish white, the lowest fifteen to eighteen 
lines long. Perianth half an inch deep, the divisions subequal, 
oblong, slightly fornicate at the tip, two lines broad, spreading 
horizontally, pure white, with a distinct greenish keel. Stamens 
equal, lanceolate, about half as long as the divisions. Style as 
long as the oblong ovary. Capsule ovoid, three-eighths of an 
inch deep, bluntly trisuleate, with numerous seeds in each cell. 
The only other published species of this sub-genus, with 
leaves the same shape, is O. virens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 814, in 
* Characterised by Salisbury as a genus in the fragment of his ‘ Genera,’ 
p- 35, for the printing of which we are indebted to Dr. J. K. Gray. 
