Refugium Botanicum.] (January, 1870. 
TAB. 185. 
Natural Order Linraces. 
Tribe ScILLEz. 
Genus Sciuua, Linn. 
Sub-genus LepEBourrA, Roth. (See Appendix). 
S. zeprina, Baker. Bulbo crasso tunicato hypogeo, foliis 5—6 lanceo- 
latis acutis deorsum paullulum angustalis subpedalibus synanthiis 
erectis carnoso-herbaceis supra glauco-viridibus immaculatis infra 
striis purpureis copiosis et deorsum maculis paucis notatis, scapo 
arcuato maculato foliis subduplo breviore, racemo oblongo denso 
30—40-floro, pedicellis floribus longioribus inferioribus cernuis, 
laciniis viridi-purpureis 3 lin. longis, filamentis laciniis subduplo 
brevioribus dimidio superiore purpureo, ovario stipitato basi dis- 
coideo ampliato. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, introduced by Mr. Cooper. 
Bulb ovoid, an inch and a half to two inches thick, almost 
entirely immersed. Leaves five or six to a bulb, contemporaneous 
with the leaves, not quite so fleshy in texture as the preceding 
species, eight to twelve inches long, twelve to twenty-one lines 
broad, clasping the scape at the base, narrowed gradually to an 
acute point, and slightly from the middle to the base, the upper 
surface a plain slightly glaucous green, the lower copiously marked 
with parallel vertical bars, and towards the base also with hori- 
zontal bars passing into blotches of purple. Scape arcuate, four 
to six inches long, copiously maculate downwards. Raceme three 
to four inches long when fully expanded by fifteen to sixteen lines 
broad, thirty- to forty-flowered, the pedicels exceeding the flowers, 
the lower ones cernuous. Perianth a quarter of an inch deep, the 
divisions purplish green, spreading from three-quarters of the 
way down when expanded. Filaments half as long as the divisions, 
the upper half purplish. Ovary distinctly stipitate, the base much 
dilated and distinctly six-toothed. 
Tab. 185.—1, separate flower; 2, pistil; 8, horizontal section of 
ovary: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
For treatment see Tab. 179.—W. W. S. 
