Refugium Botanicum.] (January, 1870. 
TAB. 182. 
Natural Order Lin1Acre&. 
Tribe ScILLE&. 
Genus Scinua, Linn. 
Sub-genus Leprsouria, Roth. (See Appendix). 
S. ranck&rotra, Baker. Bulbis magnis ovoideo-rotundatis dimidio vel 
tertio superiore epigeo subsquamoso, foliis 7—8 synanthiis carnoso- 
herbaceis ascendentibus ovato-lanceolatis 4—5 poll. longis basi paul- 
lulum angustatis acutis pallide glauco-viridibus maculis saturatiori- 
bus, scapis 2—3 arcuatis foliis brevioribus, racemo oblongo 
subdenso 30—40-floro, pedicellis floribus duplo longioribus infe- 
rioribus cernuis, laciniis purpureo-viridibus 8 lin. longis, filamentis 
laciniis triente brevioribus dimidio superiore purpureo, ovario dis- 
tincte stipitato, basi discoideo valde ampliato. — Lachenalia lancea- 
Folia, Jacq. Ic. t. 402; Redouté, Lil. t. 59; Bot. Mag. t. 643. 
Drimia lanceefolia, Gawl. Bot. Mag. sub. t. 1880; Kunth, Enum. 
iv. p. 889. D. acuminata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1041. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, and apparently much the 
commonest of the species, Dregé, 8617! Burchell, 2305! Natal, 
Sanderson! Krauss, 464! Plant, 102! Kaffirland, Dr. Gill / 
Bulb an inch and a half to two inches thick, the upper half or 
third emergent and subsquamose. Leaves seven or eight to a 
root, contemporaneous with the flowers, ovate-lanceolate, four or 
‘five inches long, an inch and a half to two inches broad three- 
quarters of the way down when fully developed, ascending, 
clasping the base of the scapes, fleshy in texture, pale glaucous- 
green blotched with deeper green. Scapes one to three to a bulb, 
arcuate, terete, shorter than the leaves. Raceme moderately 
dense, twenty- to forty-flowered, two to three inches long in 
flower by an inch and a half broad, the pedicels slender, half an 
inch long, the lower ones cernuous, subtended by minute linear 
or lanceolate bracts. Perianth a quarter of an inch deep, the 
purplish green divisions reflexed from three-quarters of the way 
down when fully expanded. Stamens filiform, erect, two lines 
long, the upper half bright purple. Ovary distinctly stipitate, 
with the base dilated and distinctly six-grooved, the filiform 
purple style two lines long. 
Tab. 182.—1, separate flower; 2, pistil: both magnified.—J. G. B. 

For treatment see Tab. 179.—W. W. S. 
