4 APPENDIX. 
In Drimia of Kunth we have a perianth like that of Agraphis in 
shape, but never blue, and with the divisions more fully reflexed, 
in combination with an ovary like that of S. autumnalis, with 
two collateral ascending ovules in each of the cells. The Abys- 
sinian Hratobotrys of Fenzl and Indian Ledebouria of Roth quite 
agree with this in general habit, the shape and colour of the 
perianth, and structure of the ovary, differing only very slightly 
in the external shape of the ovary. Barnardia of Lindley was 
separated from Scilla on the ground of having only a single 
ovary in each cell, but it entirely agrees with Scilla in habit and 
all other characters; and S. parviflora, Desf., from Barbary, 
which Steinheil has also separated as a genus under the name of 
Stellaris, is also uniovulate. Kunth’s three South-America 
Scille (chloroleuca, geminiflora and biflora) fit better with Orni- 
thogalum. Camassia, we think, may be justifiably regarded as a 
genus distinct from Scilla, differing from it by its hypogynous 
filaments and many-nerved segments, and including not only 
esculenta, which Kunth puts there, but also F’rasert, which he 
places in Scilla, and the Floridan S. angusta of Engelman and 
Gray, which is scarcely specifically distinct from F'rasert. 
Adopting the limitation thus sketched out, we get a genus 
entirely restricted to the Old World, which may be characterised 
and divided into three sub-genera as follows :— 
Genus Sotrta, Linn. Perigonium corollinum, 6-partitum, saturate 
ceruleum vel roseo-purpureum, raro viride vel albidum, laciniis 
eequalibus ligulatis vel oblongo-ligulatis ex imo basi patentibus vel 
pro tertio vel dimidio inferiore diutine conniventibus, nunquam 
multinervatis nec distincte viridi-vittatis. Ovarium  triloculare, 
sessile vel breviter stipitatum, loculis 1, 2 vel multi-ovulatis ; stylus 
elongatus, filiformis; stigma capitatum, mox leviter trisulcatum. 
Stamina semper distincte perigyna, plerumque ex imo basi lacini- 
arum uniseriata, filamentis elongatis filiformibus vel deorsum leviter 
applanatis, in specie unica ad tertiam inferiorem laciniarum vel 
ultra adnatis; anthers parvee, oblonge, versatiles. Capsula mem- 
branacea, globosa vel ovoidea, sessilis vel breviter stipitata, loculi- 
cide-trivalvis, seminibus in loculis solitariis vel paucis, parvis, 
rotundatis, nullo modo compressis nec alatis, seepe vix funiculatis 
interdum basi arillatis. Herbe bulbosee plereeque humiliores foliis 
plerisque synanthiis floribus racemosis numerosis bracteis solitariis 
vel geminatis linearibus vel deltoideis raro obsoletis. Regiones 
temperate vel raro tropicales veteris orbis. 
