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Scilla natalensis

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Identification
Scilla natalensis Planch. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Entry for SCILLA natalensis Planch. [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
SCILLA natalensis Planch. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Flore des Serres, t. 1043;—Bot. Mag. t. 5379; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 243.
Information
bulb ovoid, 3–4 in. diam., not bristly at the neck; leaves 6–8, lorate-lanceolate, glabrous or pubescent, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 3–4 in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to the base; peduncle stout, stiffly erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. long; raceme dense, 1/2–1 ft. long, 2–3 in. diam.; pedicels articulated at the apex, lower 1–1 1/2 in. long; bracts linear, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; perianth bright blue, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate; filaments linear, shorter than the perianth; ovary globose, shortly stipitate; ovules 10–12 in a cell; style as long as the ovary. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Tembuland; mountain-sides near Bazeia, 2300–3000 ft., Baur, 413! Natal, McKen! Mrs. K. Saunders! Var. β, Natal, cultivated specimen!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State, Cooper, 3278! Transvaal; Saddle-back Range, near Barberton, 2800–4000 ft., Galpin, 619!
Notes
VAR. β is described from a plant that flowered at Kew in 1864. The little known S. plumbea, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1355, described from a drawing made by Sydenham Edwards in Kew Gardens in 1813, is probably a form of this species, and may be the same as var. sordida.

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