Refugium Botanicum. | (January, 1870. 
TAB. 190. 
Natural Order Liniace. 
Tribe HyacinTHEZ. 
Genus Drimia, Jacq. non Kunth. 
(Idothea, Kunth). 
D. ropusta, Baker. Bulbo solitario hypogeo, foliis 6—9 erectis synan- 
thiis lorato-lanceolatis tripedalibus glabris acutis carnoso-herbaceis 
immaculatis, scapo erecto tereti stricto tripedali, racemo subpedali 
modice laxo, pedicellis floribus cernuis et bracteis lanceolato- 
acuminatis subsequantibus, perigonio extrorsum viridi intus pur- 
pureo-tincto, laciniis ligulatis cucullatis tubo campanulato 3—4-plo 
longioribus, filamentis linearibus conniventibus laciniis paullulum 
brevioribus, ovarii loculis multiovulatis. 
A native of Cape Colony, introduced by Mr. Cooper. 
Bulb two to three inches thick, almost entirely immersed. 
Leaves six to nine to a scape, contemporaneous with the flowers, 
two feet long when fully developed by two inches broad, erect, 
fleshy-herbaceous, acute, narrowed slightly downwards, a mode- 
rate not at all glaucous green above, paler beneath, neither side 
spotted. Scape terete, erect, not spotted, eight to nine lines in 
thickness downwards. Raceme a foot long whilst in flower by 
two inches and a half broad, sixty- to eighty-flowered. Pedicels 
six to eight lines long, subpatent, the flowers cernuous. Bracts 
ereenish white, membranous, linear-acuminate, six to nine lines 
long, protruding conspicuously beyond the unexpanded flowers. 
Perianth seven to eight lines deep, greenish, faintly tinged with 
purplish brown, the cwp a line and a half to two lines deep, the 
divisions ligulate, both sides and apex cucullate. Filaments the 
same colour as the perianth, inserted at the throat of the tube, 
_ Iinear-acuminate, slightly unequal, nearly as long as the divisions. 
Ovary sessile, ovoid, the cells with two long rows of ovules in 
each, the filiform style exceeding the stamens and at last slightly 
exceeding the divisions. 
Very near D. altissima, Bot. Mag. t. 55382, from which it differs 
by its longer leaves, shorter pedicels and bracts, and fewer and 
smaller flowers. D. altissima, Bot. Mag. t. 1074, is a different 
plant, and probably should be placed in the genus Urginea. 
Tab. 190.—1, whole plant, much reduced. 2, portion of leaf; 3, raceme ; 
4, separate flower, with bract: all natural size. 5, pistil; 6, the same, 
with four stamens ; 7, horizontal section of ovary: all magnified.—J.G.b. 

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