Tas. 6885. 
GALTONTA cravara. 
Native of Cape Colony. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacex.—Tribe Sctntex. 
Genus Gattonra, Decaisne; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii, p- 809.) 
GaLtonta clavata ; bulbo ovoideo tunicis pluribus brunneis apice fibrillosis, foliis 
6-8 sessilibus lanceolatis glabris glaucescentibus flaccidis bipedalibus, scapo 
valido tereti foliis subequilongo, racemo laxo, pedicellis floriferis cernuis flore 
sepe longioribus, bracteis lanceolatis membranaceis, perianthio viridulo tubo 
clavato, segmentis oblongis obtusis tubo duplo brevioribus, staminibus limbo 
equilongis filamentis lanceolatis antheris lineari-oblongis, ovario oblongo- 
trigono sessili, stylo gracili ovario longiori apice stigmatoso minute trilobato. 
This is a third species of Galtonia, hitherto undescribed, 
which differs from the two species already known by its 
shorter perianth-segments and lanceolate filaments. The 
genus, which differs from Hyacinthus mainly by its more 
numerous flattened seeds, was named by Decaisne in 
honour of our countryman, Francis Galton, F.R.S., the 
well-known traveller and anthropologist. We do not 
know the precise locality of the present plant, but presume 
it to be somewhere within the already ascertained area of 
the genus, which from Kaffraria extends northwards along 
the east side of Cape Colony through Natal to the 
Transvaal, always at such a considerable altitude above 
Sea-level that the two species already known are hardy in 
England. It flowered at Kew in 1881, and the bulbs were 
received in 1879 from Mr. Charles Ayres of Cape Town. 
The flowers in shape resemble those of the tuberose, but 
have no scent, and altogether it is not so fine a plant froma 
horticultural point of view as the two species already 
known. : og 
Desor. Bulb ovoid, three or four inches in diameter, — 
with many dry brown outer tunics, splitting up at the top 
into copious persistent fibres. Leaves six or eight, 
contemporary with the flowers, sessile, lanceolate, glabrous, 
glaucous green, two feet long, one or two inches broad 
JULY Ist, 1886. 
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