Bot. Mag. 5388, which however has an exceedingly different 
habit. It would be much more easy to characterise Ornithogalum 
definitely if they were shut out of it. For the present we would 
regard them as a sub-genus of Ornithogalum, receding from the 
type towards Scilla, sub-genus Ledebouria. 
Tab. 178.—1, portion of leaf; 2, flower closed; 3, flower expanded ; 
4, stamen; 5, pistil; 6, horizontal section of ovary: all magnified. — 
SEMEL Tet 
A remarkable plant, with but little resemblance to some 
species of the genus Ornithogalum. 
Mr. Thos. Cooper sent me this bulb from South Africa, 
together with another allied species, O. capitatwm, Hook. fil., 
figured at plate 5388 Bot. Mag., and, as Mr. J. G. Baker well 
observes, they do not fit into the genus Ornithogalum at all 
satisfactorily. They will probably, when we know more of the 
South African bulbs have special generic characters assigned to 
them. Both species require the same treatment as the last.— 
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