Refugium Botanicum.| January, 1870. 
TAB, 192. 
Natural Order Lintace™. 
Tribe ScILLEs. 
Genus Drimtopsis, Lindl. (See Appendix). 
D. minor, Baker. Bulbo globoso tertio superiore epigweo squamoso, 
foliis 2—3 cordato-ovatis bipollicaribus carnoso-herbaceis viridibus 
maculis saturatioribus notatis basi in petiolum canaliculatum 
lamina subequante cite angustatis, scapis foliis excedentibus, 
floribus 12—0 dense subspicatis, perigonio 12 lin. longo laciniis 
ovato-rotundatis. 
A native of Natal, introduced by Mr. Cooper. 
General habit just as in the preceding. Bulbs rather smaller 
(about an inch thick), densely aggregated. Leaves not more thun 
two or three to a scape, cordate-ovate, fleshy-herbaceous, tle 
longest at the flowering time two inches long by unde: an inch 
broad, the blade rounded at the base into a channelled petiole 
generally shorter than itseli, the upper surface a bright shining 
green with generally a few distinct darker blotches, the under 
surface paler, the petioles spotted with purple downwards. Scape 
erect, much overtopping the leaves. Flowers twelve to twenty, 
densely subspicate. Perianth an eighth of an inch deep, the 
divisions, ovary and stamens just as in the last, but the former 
broader in the upper half. 
Tab. 192.—1, separate flower, closed; 2, flower opened; 3, pistil: all 
magnified.—J. G. B. 
This is a pretty bulb, on account of its spotted leaves, but less 
ornamental than the last species, which it much resembles. It 
requires the same treatment. I received bulbs of this species 
from Mr. Thos. Cooper, who collected them in the Natal district, 
South Africa. —W. W. 8S. 
