Refugium Botanicum.| (January, 1870. 
TAB. 187. 
Natural Order LiniacEz. 
Tribe ScILLEs. 
Genus Scrnua, Linn. 
Sub-genus LepEsourta, Roth. (See Appendix). 
S. sparHuLata, Baker. Bulbo magno ovoideo-rotundato tertio superiore 
epigeeo subsquamoso, foliis 5—6 subsemipedalibus lanceolato-sptahu- 
latis acutis synanthiis ascendentibus pallide glauco-viridibus maculis 
saturatioribus notatis, scapis 2—3 arcuatis foliis brevioribus, racemo 
subdenso 80—40-floro pedicellis floribus subduplo longioribus infe- 
rioribus cernuis, laciniis purpureo-viridibus 4 lin. longis, filamentis 
laciniis eegre brevioribus dimidio superiore purpureo, ovario dis- 
tincte stipitato basi discoideo ampliato. 
A native of Cape Colony, introduced by Mr. Cooper. 
Bulb two inches in thickness, the upper third emergent and 
subsquamose, the coats purple when fresh, fading to brownish. 
Leaves five or six to a bulb, contemporaneous with the flowers, 
fleshy-herbaceous, ascending, lanceolate-spathulate, six to seven 
inches long, eighteen to twenty-one lines broad below the middle, 
acute, pale glaucous-green with deeper green and purplish blotches. 
Scapes three to four inches long, arcuate, blotched. Raceme 
thirty- to forty-flowered, two to three inches long whilst in flower 
by eighteen to twenty-one lines broad, the pedicels half to five- 
eighths of an inch long, the lower ones cernuous. Perianth four 
lines deep, purplish green, reflexed from two-thirds of the way 
down when expanded. Filaments bright purple in the upper half, 
nearly as long as the divisions. Ovary distinctly stipitate, and 
the base dilated and six-toothed. 
Tab. 187.— 1, separate flower; 2, pistil; 3, horizontal section of 
ovary: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
For treatment see Tab. 179.—W. W. S. 
