Refugium Botanicum.| (January, 1870. 
TAB. 188. 
Natural Order Lin1ace&. 
Tribe ScrnLEZ. 
Genus Scinua, Linn. 
Sub-genus Leprpourra, Roth. (See Appendix). 
S. FLoriBUNDA, Baker. Bulbo globoso solitario hypogzo, foliis erectis 
carnoso-herbaceis synanthiis pedalibus lorato-lanceolatis acutis pal- 
lide glauco-viridibus maculis saturatioribus notatis, scapis erectis 
firmis foliis triente vel dimidio brevioribus, racemo denso anguste 
oblongo 60—100-floro, pedicellis floribus «gre excedentibus, infe- 
rioribus cernuis, perigonio 44—5 lin. longo laciniis extrorsum viri- 
dibus introrsum purpureo tinctis, filamentis laciniis triente bre- 
vioribus dimidio superiore purpureo, ovario stipitato basi valde 
applanatim ampliato. 
A native of Cape Colony, introduced by Mr. Cooper. 
Bulb roundish, solitary, hypogeous, brown-tunicated, two to 
two and a half inches thick. Leaves about six to a bulb, con- 
temporaneous with the flowers, erect, fleshy-herbaceous, lorate- 
lanceolate, a foot long by two inches broad at the middle, acute, 
narrowed slightly downwards, pale green with large blotches of 
deeper green, and faintly tinged with purple towards the base. 
Scapes six to nine inches long, firm, erect, terete, a quarter of an 
inch thick. Raceme sixty- to a hundred-flowered, six to eight 
inches long by two inches broad whilst in flower, the axis—as it 
is mostly, more or less, in all the species—incrassated and corru- 
gated. Pedicels half to five-eighths of an inch long, the lowest 
cernuous. Perianth four and a half to five lines deep, entirely 
green on the outside, but the centre within purplish. F%laments 
one-third shorter than the divisions of the perianth, the upper 
half deep-coloured. Ovary distinctly stipitate, with three flat 
emarginate projections at the base which are nearly as broad as 
the ovary itself. 
Tab. 188.—1, separate flower; 2, pistil; 8, segment of perianth, with 
stamen: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
For treatment see Tab. 179.—W. W. S. 
