2 APPENDIX. 
being a plant which at that time was widely diffused in culti- 
vation, got to represent popularly the idea of Drimia; and 
Kunth, who saw that it was impossible to characterise genera 
and keep lanceefolia and the Jacquinian Drimie together, un- 
accountably restricted Driumia to lanceefolia and the plants which 
corresponded with it in structure, and made for the Jacquinian 
Drimieé a new genus under the name of [dothea. 
The following are the characters of Drimia and an enumeration 
of the species, reverting to the original idea and definition of the 
genus. 
Tribe HyactntHEx. Herbs bulbose racemose perigoniis campanulato- 
vel infundibuliformi- vel tubuloso-gamophyllis. 
Genus Drrra, Jacq. Icones, t. 373—7, non Kunth. Perigonium corol- 
linum, campanulato-gamophyllum, laciniis equalibus ligulatis cu- 
cullatis mox irregulariter reflexis tubo duplo vel triplo longioribus. 
Ovarium sessile, ovoideum, triloculare, ovulis in loculis numerosis 
(6—20); stylus filiformis, elongatus, rectus vel leviter declinatus ; 
stigma capitatum. Stamina ex fauce tubi subuniseriata, filamentis 
elongatis laciniis subeequantibus, paullulum inequalibus, interdum 
leviter declinatis, deorsum applanatis, valvatim conniventibus, sur- 
sum filiformibus, antheris oblongis versatilibus. Capsula mem- 
branacea, sessilis, profunde trisulcata, loculicide trivalvis, seminibus 
in loculis paucis vel pluribus complanatis alatis uniseriatis. Testa 
nigra, membranacea. Herbs bulbose capenses, foliis plurimis 
synanthiis vel hysteranthiis floribus numerosis racemosis. 
E\NUMERATION OF SPECIES. 
* Leaves contemporaneous with the flowers. 
+ Leaves filiform, rigid. 
1. D. media, Jacq. Coll. Suppl. p. 40; Icones, ii. p. 15, t. 375. Hya- 
cinthus medius, Poir. Hincyc. Suppl. i. p. 120. Idothea media, 
Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 842. 
2. D. purpurascens, Jacq. fil. Hclog. p. 48, t. 30. Idothea purpurascens, 
Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 342. 
* Leaves fleshy-herbaceous, lorate-lanceolate. 
3. D. humilis, Berg. teste Kunth. D. Eckloniana, Roem. & Schultz, 
Syst. vil. p. 1710. Idothea humilis, Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 344. 
4. D. Burchellit, Baker, n. sp. Folia synanthia, carnoso-herbacea, lorato- 
lanceolata, glabra, 7—8 poll. longa, 1 poll. lata. Scapus foliis sub- 
