12 APPENDIX. 
Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon, and Petit! v. s. 
Bulb ovoid, immersed, tunicated, eight or nine lines thick. 
Leaves never more than two, fleshy-herbaceous, lanceolate, two 
to three inches long, spathulately narrowed into a petiole which 
clasps the base of the scape, the edge sometimes bulbiferous. 
Scape four to six inches long. Raceme twenty- to thirty-flowered, 
lax, two to three inches long when expanded by an inch broad. 
Pedicels three to four lines long, at first cernuous, afterwards 
ascending. Perianth campanulate, two to two and a half lines 
deep, greenish purple. F%laments nearly as long as the divisions, 
the upper part bright-coloured. Ovary sessile, deeply bluntly 
three-lobed. 
13. S. indica, Baker. Bulbo ovoideo immerso tunicato, foliis 4—6 
synanthiis carnoso-herbaceis lanceolatis interdum maculatis 3—6 
poll. longis basi valde angustatis interdum margine proliferis, scapis 
foliis subeequantibus, racemo modice laxo 80—60-floro 2—3_ poll. 
longo, pedicellis 2—8 lin. longis subpatentibus, perigonio cam- 
panulato 2 lin. longo viridi-purpureo, filamentis laciniis subequanti- 
bus sursum saturate coloratis, ovario subsessili profunde trisuleato 
basi haud ampliato.—Ledebouria hyacinthina, Roth, Nov. Spee. 195; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 336; Wight. Ic. t. 2040. Barnardia indica, 
Wight, Ic. t. 2041. 
Peninsular India and Ceylon, v. s. 
Bulb ovoiwl, tunicated, immersed, one to two inches thick. 
Leaves five or six to a scape, fleshy-herbaceous, lanceolate, three 
to six inches long, an inch to an inch and a half broad, much 
narrowed at the base, im damp places proliferous at the margin, 
often maculate. Scapes one to four from a root, generally about 
as long as the leaves. taceme two to three inches long by an 
inch broad when expanded, thirty- to sixty-flowered. Bracts 
minute, deltoid. Pedicels slender, a quarter to three-eighths of 
an inch long. Perianth campanulate, two lines long, often entirely 
purplish, sometimes greenish, spreading from half-way down 
when expanded. Stamens filiform, nearly as long as the divisions, 
the upper half bright-coloured. Ovary sessile, deeply bluntly 
three-lobed, not dilated at the base. 
We do not possess material for defining Drimia maculata, 
Dalzell, Kew Journ. ii. p. 143, as distinct from this species. 
