APPENDIX. 8 
equans. Racemus 8—9 poll. longus, 1 poll. latus, 60—100-florus. 
Pedicelli erecto-patentes, 2—38 lin. longi, bracteis linearibus sub- 
equantes. Perigonium 5—6 lin. longum, laciniis tubo triplo 
longioribus. C. B. 8.—Burchell, 4769! Zeyher, 754! 
5. D. robusta, Baker, tab. nostra, 190. 
6. D. altissima, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5532, non Gawler. 
* Leaves developed after the raceme. 
D. elata, Jacq. Coll. Suppl. p. 38; Icon. i. p. 15, t. 373; Red. Lil. 
t. 430; Bot. Mag. t. 822. Hyacinthus elatus, Poir. Encye. Suppl. 
ill. p. 120. Idothea elata, Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 343. 
82D: ciliaris, Jacq. Coll. Suppl. p. 41; Icon. ii.:p. 15, t. 377; ° Bot. 
Mag. t. 1444. Hyacinthus ciliaris, Poir. Encyc. Suppl. ii. p. 120. 
Idothea ciliaris, Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 348. 
9. D. villosa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1846. Idothea villosa, Kunth, Enum. 
Iv. p. 343. 
10. D. pusilla, Jacq. Coll. Suppl. p. 12; Icon. ii. p. 15, t. 874. Idothea 
pusilla, Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 344. 
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Tribe Scirtesz. Herbe bulbose racemose perigoniis ad basin sex- 
partitis. 
Turning next to the genera with the-flowers cut down to the 
base, we do not think that several genera admitted by Kunth can 
be maintained as distinct from Scilla, inasmuch as they either 
coincide absolutely with some of the undisputed Scille in all 
points of structure, or there is only a slight difference which 
is bridged over by gradual stages. As defined in the ‘Enume- 
ratio,’ Scilla includes the large number of blue-flowered species 
in which the segments spread from the base in the expanded 
flower and the filaments spring from the base of the segments, 
and also the common Wild Hyaeinth of our woods (S. nutans, 
Smith), in which the segments, though not confluent, connive 
permanently for the lower third, and have the filaments adnate to 
them for a third or half their length ; and we do not think that 
anyone who has studied how gradually this type of perianth runs 
into that of typical Scilla, through the intermediate stage of 
S. campanulata, will incline to separate them as distinct genera. 
