Entry for SCILLA zebrina Baker [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 zebrinaBaker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 185;—Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 253.
Information
bulb globose, 1 1/2–2 in. diam.; leaves 5–6, oblong-lanceolate, 8–12 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad, green, with a slight glaucous tinge, plain on the face, copiously barred vertically with purple on the back, with transverse bars towards the base; peduncle 4–6 in. long, curved, spotted towards the base; raceme dense, oblong, 3–4 in. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. diam.; pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long, lower cernuous; perianth oblong-campanulate, 1/4 in. long, green, tinged with purple; filaments pale purple; ovary stipitate, globose, discoid at the base. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality. No specimen at Kew.
Notes
Described from a plant flowered by Mr. Wilson Saunders at Reigate in 1870, introduced by Mr. Thomas Cooper.
