Tab. 6895. 

 albuca juncifolia. 



Native of the Gape Colony. 



Nat. Ord. Liliackjr. — Tribe Scille.e. 

 Genus Albuca, Linn. (Baker in Jotim. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 285). 



Albuca juncifolia : bulbo ovoideo collo haud setoso. foliis 20-30 viridibus sub- 

 teretibus pedalibus dorso rotnndatis facie deorsum canaliculatis prinium 

 obscure puberulis cito calvatis, iloribus 10-15 in racemum deltoideum 

 dispositis, bracteis parvis lanceolatis scariosis, pedicellis apice cernuis in- 

 ferioribus erecto-patentibus fiore subduplo longioribus. floribus luteo- viridibus 

 inodoris, staminibus exterioribus castratis, stylo prismatico-triquetro ovario 

 asquilongo. 



A. juncifolia, Baker in Card. Chron. 1870, vol, i. p. 534, 



This is a well-marked new species of Jlkica, discovered 

 by Mr. Hutton in the south-eastern portion of Cape Colony, 

 and sent by him to the Kew collection, where it flowered for 

 the first time in the summer of 1876. Of the old species it 

 comes nearest A. viridiflora^ Jacq. (Bot. Mag. Tab. 1056), a 

 plant always very rare and now apparently entirely lost to 

 cultivation. From this and every other species it may be 

 recognised at a glance by its numerous bright green rush- 

 like leaves, which are obscurely downy only in a very early 

 stage and soon become glabrous. Since the publication of 

 my monograph of the genus in 1873, no less than eleven new 

 species have been added to the sixteen previously known, a 

 striking evidence of the activity with which of late years this 

 department of botany has been worked. The plate was drawn 

 from a plant that flowered at Kew in August of this present 

 year. 



Descr. Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter ; the outer 

 tunics not at all produced beyond its neck in the forinof 

 bristles. Leaves twenty or thirty to a bulb, cotemporary with 

 the flowers ; subteretc, reaching a length of a foot and a 

 diameter of an eighth or a sixth of an inch, obscurely downy 



NOYEMUKR 1st, 1878. 



