532 CXL. LILIACEZ (BAKER). | Albuca. 
11, A. Donaldsoni, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 131. Bulb not 
seen. Leaves linear, acuminate, with involute edges, reflexed, 1 ft. 
long, 4—5 lin. broad low down. Peduncle shorter than the leaves. 
Raceme dense, 6 in. long, 3—4 in. diam.; pedicels ascending ; lower 
1} in, long; bracts linear from a triangular base, lower 2 in. long. 
Perianth 8 lin. long; segments cucullate at the apex, white with a broad 
3-5-nerved brown keel. Stamens all perfect; anthers } in. long; filaments 
subulate from a triangular base. Ovary oblong, + in. long; style subulate, 
as long as the ovary. 
Nile Land. Somaliland; low country, east of the Shebele River, Donaldson 
Smith. 
No specimen at Kew. 
12. A. monophylla, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 
251. Bulb globose, under 1 in. diam.; outer tunics membranous, 
brown. Leaf usually solitary, erect, terete, 1 ft. long, under 1 lin. 
diam. Peduncle slender, shorter than the leaf. Raceme lax, 2-6- 
flowered ; pedicels ascending, }-4 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate. 
Perianth 4 in. long; segments yellow, with a broad green keel. Anthers 
all perfect, oblong, 4 lin. long; filaments lanceolate-subulate. Style 
subulate, 2-3 times the length of the ovary.—A. juncifolia, Welw. Herb. 
not of Baker. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 3838! 
13. A. Buchanani, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 488. Bulb 
small, ovoid. Leaves about 4, linear, acuminate, erect, 1-1} ft. long, 
channelled down the face, obscurely ciliated on the margin. Peduncle 
slender, as long as the leaves. Raceme lax, 3-4 in. long; pedicels 
ascending, }-} in. long; bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicels. 
Perianth } in. long; segments yellow, with a broad green keel. 
Anthers oblong, all perfect; filaments linear from an ovate base. 
Ovary small, ovoid ; style subulate, 4 in. long 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan ! 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, October 1892. 
14. A. hereroensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. m. 40. 
Bulb. 3 in. diam., crowned with a ring of fibres. Leaves linear-lanceo- 
late, 4 in. long, concave in the lower part of the face. Raceme ge? 
drical, 8 in. long ; pedicels ascending, the lower } in. long ; bracts Sh 
long. Perianth 3 in. long; segments oblong, } in. broad, yellow wit 
a broad brown keel. Stamens all fertile; filaments auricled at the 
base. Style as long as the ovary. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; at Horn Krantz, on 
granite, Fleck, 139! and without precise locality, Schinz, 2! 
15. A. Melleri, Baker. Bulb ovoid, 14 in. diam. Leaves ome 
linear, 1} ft. long, 4—4 in. broad low down, clasping the base gë 
peduncle. Peduncle 1-2 ft. long. Raceme very lax, 6-9 in. long ; 
