557 

 ALBUCA filifolia. 



tine-leaved Alhuca. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNU. 



Nat. ord. Asphodeli. Jussieu gen, 51. Div. IV, Florcs spicaU. 



Radix bulbosa. Corolla sexpartita, basi staminifera. 

 AsPHODELE^. Brown prod. 1- 274. 

 ALBUCA. Suprd vol 4. foL 277- 



Biv, CorolUje cequalitir patenteg, 

 A,filifolia, foliis filiformibus flexuosis reflesis scapo longioribus, scapo sim- 

 plici filiformi, racemo paucifloro. Willd. sp. pi 2. 135; (sub Anthk- 

 RICO fiUfoiio), 



Albuca filifolia- Nob, in loco prcBsentL 



Anthericum filifolium. Jacg, ic. tar, 2, /. 414. Coll suppL 93- ITlunfi, 



prod, 62,? Willd, in loco suprd citato, 



Tota glabra. (Bulbus ovato-rotundus^ compacto-sqwimoms sordescenM, 

 ititegumenttsfuscis,) Folia radicalia plerumgue tria, JUiformiay semtteretia* 

 acutaj nitiday basipurpurasccntia, c€Bterilmviridia,magismin&sveflextiOsa, 

 reclinataj rigidula, hngiora pedalia^ una cum scapo intermedio ad basin 

 compreheasa vagina una altcrave scanosa^ pallida, transversim striata, plus 

 minus semunciam longa, m plantaflorentefissa et ad latus abscedente. Scapos 

 teres, simplex, nitiduSy Jkxuosus^ erectus, foliorvm crassiOe et feri Umgitvr 

 dine, injeme purpureus. Bacemus termiTialiSt erectus. Florea inodori^ 

 plus minus septem. Fedunculi vix semuncialeSj patuli, bracted suffulti lan- 

 ceolato-actiminatd. Corollas lacinuB oblangte, obtusa, parumphr concavm, 

 patentusinuEf albid^B cum lined utringue longitudinali media virente^ 3 

 alterncE tatiores, Filamenta subulata, csqualia^ imberbia, erecta, corolld 

 duplo breviora, alba. Antherse oblong<B, erectdB, flavor. Germen superum^ 

 oblongum, trupietrum. Stylus Jiliformis, adscendens^ albus^ hngitudine 

 staminum. Stigma subcapitatum, villosum. Jacq. coll. suppl. 93, 94. 



The present species^ as well as Jugcur of this work 

 (fol. 311), and exuviatUy vittata^ and physodes of Curtis's 

 Botanical Magazine (Nos- 871^ 1046, 1329), is far nearer 

 akin to Alboca than to Anthericum, in which last it has 

 been deposited by Jacquin and all subsequent writers till 

 removed by oureelves. It is very probable that the five, 

 with some other kindred species, which have been mis- 

 placed in Anthericum, will be separated by others into a 

 new genus; though in our view they are as conveniently sta- 

 tioned in Albuca. 



Filifolia has been now first introduced by Mr. Griffin, 

 from the Cape of Good Hope; where, according to Jacquin, 

 it is found in Namaqua Land, 



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