Tas. 8533. 
GALTONIA princrps. 
South Africa. 
Liniackak. Tribe ScILLEAE. 
Gauronta, Decne; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 899. 
Galtonia princeps, Decne in Flore des Serres, vol. xxiii. (1880) p. 33; Baker in 
Dyer, Fil. Cap. vol, vi. p. 451; species G. candicanti, Decne, affinis, 
perianthii segmentis tubo brevioribus et staminibus prope basin tubi 
perianthii affixis differt. 
Herba. Bulbus globosus, tunicatus, Folia 4-6, anguste lanceolata, acuminata, 
_ basi vaginantia, 4 dm. longa, 4 cm. lata, marginibus minutissine puberulis 
exceptis glabra. Scapus foliis longior, teres, glaber ; icelli erecto- 
patentes, 3 cm. longi, fructiferi erecti, ad 7 cm. longi; bracteae ovatae, 
acuminatae, membranaceae, 3 cm. longae, 8 mm. latae; flores nutantes, 
distantes. Perianthit tubus oblongus, 12 mm. longus, 9 mm. diametro, 
extra viridis; lobi subpatentes, ovati, obtusi, 2 cm. longi, 1 cm. lati, 
candidi, Stamina paullo supra basin perianthii inserta; filamenta e basi 
dilatata subulata, 15 mm. longa; antherae oblongae, obtusae, basi profunde 
cordatae, 6 mm. longae. OUvarium oblongum, 7 mm. longum, viride; 
stylus cylindricus, 10 mm. longus; stigma minute trilobum.—Hyacinthus 
princeps, Baker in Saund. Ref. But. t. 175, et in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. 
p. 426.—C. H. Wricut. 
The genus Galtonia was established by Professor Decaisne 
in 1880 to accommodate two species which Mr. Baker had 
already described and referred to MHyacinthus, Linn., as 
H, candicans and H. princeps; it is the second of these 
which forms the subject of our illustration, Decaisne 
proposed his new genus because the two species in question 
have more numerous seeds than any true Hyacinthus, 
because these seeds are angular and not turgid, and because 
the stature of the scape in a Galtonia is much higher than 
in a Hyacinthus. The view expressed by Decaisne was 
fully accepted by Baker who subsequently described a third 
species which differs. from the others in having perianth- 
segments only half the length of the tube. That species, 
G. clavata, Baker, has been figured at t. 6885 of this work. 
The species now figured, G. princeps, has long been in 
cultivation at Kew, where it flowers every year under the 
cultural conditions which are suitable for the more popular 
and better known G. candicans. The home of G. princeps 
JANuARY, 1914, 
