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ALBUCA fiigax. 



Fugacious-flowered ^Ibuca. 



HEXANDRIA MONOQYJfU. 



Kat.ord. Asphodbli. Jtusieu gen, SI. Dvo, IV. 



AsPHODELEiE. BrOXOIt pTod, ^4i, 



ALB VCA. Snprhfol. 377. 



jD/p. CordlU aqualiiir patenti&us^ 

 ^^J^S^f fbliis numerosiB, subtrigono*61iformibu8| 8ubuljitii» duplobrerlo* 



ribus scapo, erectis : stylo declinnto, curvo, 

 Anthericum fragrans- Jacq, hort, schcenb. 1 . 45. U 86. WiUd, sp.pl,%l 85. 



Hort, Keto, ed. 2. 2. 266. 



BulbuB subrotundusf compacto^squatnosuSf sordescens* FoL numeroiaf 

 €rea<h^atula^ Jasciculato-ambtentiat camosa^ semiicreti-linearia^ subulate^ 

 obsolete et obtusi suhtrigona^ hinc planiora^ recfa^ temipedalia, crassUudine 

 Jeri penna corvin^e^ non glauca, vagind radicali ntdid, Scapus pedalis r. 

 nlfrd, tereSf erectus, glaucuSy plurtmum crassiar Jhliiit racemo terminaU^ 

 laxiusculo^ mulHflorOf patents, semipedali v. nltri, PeduncuH patetOes^ 

 breviores fiorcy semuncialfs, Bractece breviores pedunculisj raembranacea^ 

 albicanteSf acuminata* Cor. horizonfem resptciens, mcculenta^ tenera^ cito 

 coUabens, ultra unciam transversa^ subrotata, ladniis non contiguis^ obldngii, 

 obtusisy apice zncurvist clbidis, extiis ei sumntitate colore sordid^ purpurea ' 

 partim suffUsts^ lined media viridi prf^ndi carinatS percursis* Sram. duplo 

 ure\3iara coroUBy aquaUa^ glabra, paululUni d&^linata: fil- snhulatai aim* 

 ^avm ere(^t0t oUongfe, vertice hiantes, Pwt. subaguale corolla: germ, oh* 

 longumj prismaticunit angulis bicostatiss stylus puf^rascens, crqmusfftluSf 

 Uneari4r%quetery declinatus^ curoo lent assurgens: stigma cavumt s^Hfifidom 

 apertum, pubescens* 



The present plant evidently comes nearer to this genus, 

 both in character and habit, than to either Anthericuh or 

 Ornithocajuum. It belongs to the section in which we have 

 placed exuviaia, vittata, and ph^sodes in Curtis's Magazine 

 (Nos. 871, 1046, 1329), species which wUl probably be at 

 some penod formed into a separate genHS, 



Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr, Mas* 

 son in 1795, The drawing was taken from a sample which 

 flowered in June last in Mr. Griffin's conservatory at South 

 Lambeth, and was produced by a bulb which had been 

 sent from the Cape. 



Buib round, compactly scaled, of a pale squalid purplish 

 brown. Leaves numerous, fescicled, upright, slightly di* 

 vergent, fleshy, semicylindrically linear, subulate, obso- 



vol,, IV, ^ 



