Refugium Botanicum. | [January, 1870. 
TAB. 189. 
Natural Order LiniacEe@. 
Tribe ScrnLEs. 
Genus Scritua, Linn. 
Sub-genus LepEsouria, Roth. (See Appendix). 
S. prixceps, Baker. Bulbo solitario globoso hypogzo, foliis 5—6 
erectis carnoso-herbaceis synanthiis lorato-lanceolatis sesqui vel 
bipedalibus acutis pallide viridibus maculis saturatioribus, scapis 
2—8 foliis multoties brevioribus, racemo denso oblongo-cylindrico 
100—200-floro, pedicellis patentibus floribus triplo longioribus, 
infimis cernuis, perigonio 42—5 lin. longo laciniis extrorsum 
viridibus, introrsum purpureo-viridibus, filamentis laciniis triente 
brevioribus dimidio superiore purpureo, ovario stipitato basi valde 
applanatim ampliato. 
A native of Cape Colony, introduced by Mr. Cooper. 
Bulb vound, tunicated, immersed, two to three inches thick. 
Leaves five or six to a bulb, contemporaneous with the flowers, 
fleshy-herbaceous, lorate-lanceolate, a foot and a half to two feet 
long by two to two and a half inches broad at the middle, acute, 
narrowed slightly downwards, pale green with large blotches of 
darker green especially on the under side in the lower half. 
Scapes two or three io a bulb, firm, arcuate, not maculate. 
Raceme dense, 100- to 200-flowered, a foot long in the specimen 
drawn by three to three and a helf inches broad, the pedicels 
twelve to fifteen lines long, mostly horizontal but the lowest 
cernuous, the axis much incrassated and corrugated. Perianth 
four and a half to five lines deep, quite green on the outside, but 
deeply tinged with brownish purple within, spreading from two- 
thirds of the way down when expanded. Stamens a third shorter 
than the divisions, the upper half bright-coloured. Ovary dis- 
tinctly stipitate, and furnished with three broad flat emarginate 
discoid projections. 
Tab. 189.— 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. 
