Tas. 4842. 
ALBUCA? GarpeEnt. 
Captain Garden’s Albuca. 
Nat. Ord. ASPHODELEZ.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx corollaceus, 6-sepalus, regularis, persistens. Sepala ima basi 
connata; nunc omnia, nunc nonnisi exteriora apice fornicato-excavata ; hee 
multi(7-17)-nervia, plana, patentissima; interiora paullo breviora, sed latiora, 
tenuiora, medio 5—7-nervia, concava, erecto-conniventia. Stamina 6, basi sepa- 
lorum inserta iisque breviora; tria exteriora minora, interdum castrata. ila- 
menta crasse filiformia ; tria interiora basi membranaceo-dilatata. Anthere bi- 
loculares, introrse, lineari-oblonge, apice profunde emarginate, basi_ bifid, 
dorso medio affixee. Ovarium liberum, sessile, triloculare ; ovwla in loculis cre- 
berrima (circiter 50), biseriata?, horizontalia, anatropa, sessilia. Stylus erectus, 
crassus, profunde 3-sulcatus (pyramidatus, Lindl. ; pyramidato-inversus, Juss.). 
Stigmata tria, papillosa, nune globulosa, distincta, nune abbreviato-conica, pyra- 
midato-conniventia (stigma trigonum, papilloso-hirtum, Endl.). Capsula perga- 
menea, elliptica, triangularis, trilocularis, apice loculicido-trivalvis. Semina in 
loculis creberrima, compresso-plana, lata (latiora quam longa), undique mar- 
ginato-alata, nigra, nitidula; ¢esta tenuis, membranacea, albumini carnoso ad- 
nata, margine alato-ampliata. Zmbryo axilis, cylindraceus, rectus, albumine vix 
brevior ; radicula hilum attingens.—Herbe bulbose, scapigere, facie Ornithogali. 
Racemi lawiflori. Flores longe pedicellati, cernui, virides, flavidi vel luted ; pedi- 
cellis patentibus, bractea membranacea longa stipatis. Kth. 
AtBuca? Gardeni ; acaulis bulbosa stolonifera glabra, bulbis squamosis, squamis 
4-5 amplis latis laxis, foliis 3-5 lato-lanceolatis inferne attenuatis basi 
dilatatis obsolete striatis, scapo simplici foliis breviore bracteato, racemo 
ovato erecto plurifloro, pedicellis strictis basi bracteatis, sepalis (albis) ob- 
longis patentibus usque ad basin liberis, filamentis subulatis omnibus an- 
theriferis, antheris oblongis. 
From Natal, South Africa, whence the roots were brought to 
us early in 1854, by Captain Garden, to whom we owe the pos- 
session of many curious plants and interesting Museum objects. 
They flowered with us in the stove in October of the same year. 
It is only provisionally that I place it in A/éuca. Its habit is 
peculiar, but in many respects it approaches the Albuca phy- 
sodes, Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1046, and both will probably rank 
in the same genus. The late Professor Kunth removed that 
species (physodes) from Albuca, with which it has little affinity, 
APRIL Ist, 1855. 
