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Spring (L five or six lorate ft to ft)

l. five or six, lorate, 1 1/2ft. to 2ft. long, to 2 1/2in. broad, acute, narrowed at base, pale green, spotted. Cape of Good Hope, 1862. Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 189.) S. pumila (dwarf). A synonym of S. monophylla.

S. puschkinioides (Puschkinia-like). fl., perianth pale blue, erect, star-like. Spring. l. two to four, obtuse, broadly linear. Turkestan, 1881. A pretty, hardy plant, somewhat resembling S. bifolia in habit. (R.G. 1051, f.1.) S. revoluta (revolute). fl., perianth rose-purple, the falcate segments green-striped at back, rounded-campanulate, 1/8in. long; pedicels spreading, the lower ones six to eight lines long; raceme oblong-lanceolate, loose, twelve to thirty-flowered, 2in. to 3in. long, 1in. to 1 1/4in. broad; scape very slender, flexuous, 3in. to 6in. long, at first nodding at apex, coloured at base. August. l. five to nine, oblanceolate-spathulate, channelled and narrowed at base into a short petiole, 2 1/2in. to 3in. long, six to eight lines broad, slightly wrinkled. Cape of Good Hope, 1774. Greenhouse. SYN. Drimia lanceaefolia (L.B.C. 278).

S. sibirica (Siberian).* fl. one to three, horizontal or slightly drooping, shortly pedicellate; perianth deep blue, six to seven lines long; scapes one to six, fleshy, 3in. to 6in. long. February. l. two to four, ascending, narrow, lorate, at length 4in. to 6in. long, four to six lines broad, slightly cucullate. European Russia, Siberia, &c., 1796. Hardy. (A. B. R. 365; L. B. C. 151.) SYNS. S. amoena sibirica (B. M. 1025), S. uniflora. S. socialis (social). fl., perianth greenish, rounded-campanulate, 1/6in. long, the segments falcate; pedicels 1/8in. long, the lower ones drooping; raceme dense, twenty to thirty-flowered, oblong, 1 1/2in. to 2in. long, 1in. broad; scape firm, terete, unspotted, 2in. to 3in. long. Spring. l. three or four, spreading, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2in. to 2 1/2in. long, 3/4in. to 1in. broad, slightly narrowed at base, pale glaucous-green and spotted on the face. Cape of Good Hope, 1862. Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 180.) S. spathulata (spathulate-leaved). fl., perianth greenish outside, purple within, oblong-campanulate, nearly 1/3in. long; pedicels six to seven lines long, the lower ones drooping; raceme dense, thirty to forty-flowered, 3in. to 4in. long, 1 1/2in. to 1 3/4in. broad; scape flexuous, 3in. to 4in. long.