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Albuca Minor. Lesser Albuca. 



Oafs and Order, 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



CorolU lacinijE 3 interiores conniventes apice crafliufculo, 

 3 extimae patentes. Stamina 3 his oppofita fterilia, camera 3 

 fertilia ? Stylus pyramidato-inverfus. Stigma acutum, triplici 

 mucrone cinclum. Semina plana. Juss. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ALBUCA minor bulbo compreflb-rotundo, fubrapoide ; foliis 

 fubulato-linearibus, canaliculars, glabris, jobtufe 

 carinatis; floribus nutamibus, pedunculis ere&iuf- 

 culis, recurvatis, fubadfcendentibus; bra&eis acu- 

 minatis, cito fphacelatis ; (tigmatibus trigono- 

 obconicis, acutis, papillofo-hirtis. G. 



ALBUCA minor. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. 438. Syjl. Veg. Murr. 

 326. Dryand. Acl. Holm. 1784. p. 294. TbunK 

 eod. 1786. 58. Prod. 65. Hort. Kew. 1. 436. Mart. 

 Mill. Dic7. Willd. Sp. PL 2. 100. JUL a Redoute 



t. 21. 



ALBUCA lutea. (3. Lamarck Encyc. 76. 



OR NIT HOG ALUM canadenfe. 0. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. p. 308. 

 ORNITHOGALUM africanum flore viridi altero alien m- 

 nato. Herm. Parad. 209. /. 209. 



Bulb round, comprefled, in flefli and form not unlike that of 

 a white turnep-radifh. Leaves 3, about equal to the Rem, 

 fubulatcly linear, upright, fmooth, channelled, femicylindric 

 outwards ; ftern from a foot to a foot and half high, round, 

 glaucous; rachis flexuofe; flowers green-yellow, fcentlefs, 

 fcarcely an inch and half in diameter, arranged in an upright 

 raceme; peduncles long, almoit upright, recurved upwards, 

 fubafcendent, upper ones gradually fhorter ; braftes ovate- 

 acuminate, 



