Agapanthus.] LILIACE (Baker). 408 
terete, 3-4 ft. long; flowers 30-50 in an umbel, bright blue, rarely 
white ; spathe-valves 2, broad, membranous, falling early ; pedicels 
2-8 in. long, articulated at the apex; perianth 13-2 in. long ; 
Segments 3-3 in. broad, at least twice as long as the tube, distinctly 
keeled ; capsule 1} in. long; seeds } in. long. Att. Hort. Kew. 
1.414; Bot. Mag. t. 500; Red. Lil. t. 4; Kunth, Enum. iv. 479; 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 369. Crinum africanum, Linn. 
Sp. Plant. 292. Mauhlia africana, Dahl, Obs. 26. M. linearis, 
Thunb. Prodr. 60; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 308 ; Diss. Nov. Gen. 113. 
(C. Commel. Hort. Amstel. ii. t. 67. Tulbaghia, Heister, Brunsvigia 
10 in.nota, Fabric. Helmst. 4), 
Var. 8, A. multifiorus (Willd. Enum. 353 in nota) ; a more robust variety, with 
more numerous flowers (60-80) and broader leaves. Kunth, Enum. iv. 480. 
Var. 7, A. precox (Willd. Enum. 353) ; an early flowering ae the end 
of June in English gardens) with narrower leaves, a uncle, and 
narrower perianth-segments. Kunth, Enum, iv. 480. A. wmbellatus var. 
minimus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 699. 
Var. 5, A. minor (Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 42); a dwarf form, with leaves net 
above 4 in. broad, flowers 3-1 in. long, pedicels 1-1} in. long. A. umbellatus var. 
minor, Red. Lil. t. 408. 
Var. ¢, Leichtlinii (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, x. 428) ; differs from minor 
by its shorter, broader leaves, larger flowers, denser umbel ; pedicels not more 
than { in. long. . 
The above varieties are connected by gradual intermediates. Besides these, 
A. giganteus (Hort. Weiner Illust. Gart.-Zeit. 1880, 119) is a very robust form, 
with 150-200 flowers and leaves 2 in. broad, and A. mooreanus, Hort., a form 
with the narrow leaves of minor, but flowers as large as in the type. 
Coast Reaion: Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, MacOwan, 1914! Port 
Elizabeth, Drege, 4510! Var. y, Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 7b! 
Var 5, Cape Peninsula, plains above Simons Bay, Milne, 167! Riversdale Div.; 
Lange Bergen, Burchell, 7188! George Div. ; Honing Klip, Drége, 8594! 
CENTRAL Rearon: Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 1914! 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5798! Saddleback 
Range, near Barberton, 4000-4600 ft., Galpin, 1224! Var. 3, Orange Free 
State, Cooper,3270! Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Atherstone ! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Tugela River, Allison! Var. 3, Natal; Ingote, 
Sutherland! Var. 5, Natal; Enon, Mrs. K. Saunders in Herb. Wood, 3153! 
und without precise locality, Cooper, 3272! 
XXI. TULBAGHIA, Linn. 
Perianth gamophyllous, hypocrateriform ; tube oblong or cylin- 
drical ; segments oblong or lanceolate, subequal, patent, generally 
shorter than the tube, which has a corona at the throat which is 
either entire and annular or composed of three distinct processes 
placed opposite the inner segments. Stamens 6, biseriate, inserted 
on the tube of the perianth; filaments short; anthers oblong, 
dorsifixed, dehiseing introrsely. Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; ovules many 
in acell, superposed ; style short, columnar; stigma capitate. Capsule 
oblong, chartaceous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds oblong, com- 
pressed ; testa loose, blackish ; albumen fleshy. . 
Rootstock tuberous; leaves radical, linear or lorate, fleshy ; peduncle slender, 
