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Refugium Botanicum. | [January, 1870. 
TAB. 180. 
Natural Order Linacre. 
Tribe ScILLEZz. 
Genus ScILLA. 
Sub-genus Leprpouria, Roth. (See Appendix). 
S. socratis, Baker. Bulbis ovoideis gregariis dimidio superiore epigeo, 
foliis 8—4 carnoso-herbaceis horizontaliter patulis synanthiis oblongo- 
lanceolatis acutis 2—8 pollicaribus pallide viridibus maculis satu- 
ratioribus, scapo flexuoso foliis sequante, racemo denso conico 
20—80-floro, pedicellis valde cernuis floribus brevioribus, laciniis 
3 lin. longis omnino viridibus basi extrorsum egre purpureo tinctis, 
filamentis tresquadrantes longitudinis laciniarum attingentibus, 
dimidio superiore purpureo, ovario latiore quam alto, basi discoideo 
valde ampliato. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, discovered by Mr. Cooper. 
Bulbs ovoid, densely gregarious, fifteen to eighteen lines thick, 
the upper half emergent and subsquamose. Leaves three to four 
to a scape, contemporaneous with the flower, spreading hori- 
zontally, fleshy in texture, oblong-lanceolate, acute, two to three 
inches long by an inch broad three-quarters of the way down, 
pale green copiously blotched with deeper green. Scape terete, 
flexuose, just equalling the leaves, not maculate. Raceme dense, 
conical, an inch and a half to two inches long by an inch broad 
when in flower, twenty- to thirty-flowered. Bracts minute, as in 
all the other species of the sub-genus. Pedicels very cernuous, 
a line and a half to two lines long. Perianth a quarter of an inch 
deep, the divisions ligulate-lanceolate, green on both sides, only 
slightly tinged with purple on the outside at the base. Filaments 
two lines long, the upper half bright purple. Ovary distinctly 
stipitate, much broader than deep, the base discoidly dilated and 
six-lobed. Cells as in all the neighbouring species, with two col- 
lateral ascending ovules in each. 
Tab. 180.—1, separate flower; 2, pistil; 38, horizontal section of 
ovary: all magnified —J. G. B. 
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For treatment see Tab. 179.—W. W. S. 
