Tas. 6649, 
ALBUCA Netsont. 
Native of Natal. 
Nat. Ord. Liz1acex.—Tribe Scrtuem. 
Genus Atpuca, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii, p. 809, ined.) 
Atsuca Nelsoni; elata, robusta, glaberrima, bulbis magnis squamis carnosis 
viridibus orbiculari-ovatis exterioribus gradatim brevioribus, foliis 3-4-peda- 
libus a basi 2-3 poll. diam. sensim in apicem acuminatam angustatis infra 
medium concavis dein planis lete viridibus enerviis, scapo 4-5-pedali valido 
viridi, racemo pedali laxifloro, bracteis elongato-subulatis, pedicellis gracilibus 
erecto-patentibus inferioribus 3-pollicaribus bracteas excedentibus, floribus 2- 
pollicaribus, perianthii oblongi segmentis lineari-oblongis obtusis concavis apice 
Incurvis albis, exterioribus medio dorso apicem versus virescentibus v. brunneo- 
virescentibus, staminibus omnibus fertilibus, filamentis crassiusculis albis basi 
quadrato-dilatatis, antheris parvis, ovario oblongo 3-gono faciebus cristatis. 
A. Nelsoni, V. FE. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1880, p. 198, fig. 41. 
This, as Mr. Brown remarks in the work referred to, is 
by far the finest species of Albuca hitherto made known, all 
of which—there are sixteen species enumerated in Mr. 
Baker’s revision of the genus in the Journal of the Linnean 
Society (vol. xiii. p. 285)—are natives of tropical or southern 
Africa. It belongs to a small section of the genus (Palla- 
stema), in which the stamens are all perfect, and the style 
more or less elongate; this section includes the A. ango- 
lensis, Welw., of western tropical Africa, which rivals A. 
Nelsoni in stature, and A. abyssinica, Dryand., of which the 
Scape is two to four feet high and densely many-flowered. | 
_A. Nelsoni was discovered by Mr. Nelson near the Umlayi 
river in Natal, and sent by him to his father’s nursery at 
Thornbank near Rotherham, where it was flowered in 1880. 
The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens 
in July of the present year, the plant having been presented 
by Mr. Nelson. 
Descr. Bulb from the size of a small apple upwards, 
green, globose, of numerous bright-green fleshy imbricating 
OCTOBER Ist, 1882; 
