Tulbaghia. | LILIACEZ (Baker), : 405 
3. T. alliacea (Linn. fil. Suppl. 193); corm globose; root-fibres 
fleshy, cylindrical ; outer rudimentary leaves brown, membranous; 
produced leaves 6-8, erect, fleshy, 4-14 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad; 
peduncle fragile, terete, 1-2 ft. long; umbel 6-10-flowered ; pedicels 
1-2 in. long; spathe-valves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, membranous ; 
perianth greenish, } in. long; segments lanceolate, about half as long 
as the tube ; corona annular, purplish-brown or yellow, shorter than 
the perianth-segments, erenate on the margin; upper stamens 
reaching up into the corona; capsule ovoid, splitting the marcescent 
perianth-tube, finally 3 in. long. Thunb. Prodr. 60; Fl. Cap. edit. 
Schult. 306 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xi. 371, non Kunth. 
T. brachystemma, Kunth, Enum. iv. 483. T. affinis, Link, Enum. 
i, 310; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 994. 
Var. 8, T. ludwigiana (Harv. in Bot, Mag. t. 3547) ; leaves loraie, } ft. 
long, $-2 in. broad; corona bright yellow, urceolate, with inflexed edges, 
Coast Rreion: Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof, 300 ft., Bolus, 4347! 
Cape Div. ; Muizenberg, 1100 ft., Bolus, 4649! Albany Div.. Cooper, 3279! 
Stockenstrom Div. ; Katberg, 3000-4000 ft., Drage! Kiug Walliawstown Div. ; 
Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton! Var. 8, Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton! 
Kaanart Region: Transvaal; hills near Pretoria, 4000 ft., McLea in Herb. 
Bolus, 3091! 3 
Eastern Reeion: Natal, Sanderson, 429! Inanda, Wood, 257! 
The leaves have usually a strong alliaceous scent, but in a plant grown by 
Mr. Elwes this was entirely wanting. 
4, T. dregeana (Kunth, Enum. iv. 483); outer rudimentary 
leaves membranous, brown, 1-13 in. long; produced leaves linear, 
moderately firm in texture, 3-6 in. long, yj in. broad; peduncle 
slender, under a foot long; umbel 4-8-flowered; spathe-valves 
lanceolate ; pedicels }-1 in. long ; perianth greenish, j-} in. long ; 
segments lanceolate, 3-1 line long; corona annular, crenate, brownish, 
rather shorter than the perianth-segments ; upper stamens reaching 
to the throat of the corona. Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xi. 371. 
WESTERN ‘Rectow: Little Namaqualand; near Lily Fontein and izels 
Fonutein, Drége, 2658! 
Perhaps only a montane variety of T. acutiloba, from which it differs by its 
shorter periauth-segments and corona. 
5. T. natalensis (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1891, ix. 668) ; leaves 
6-8 to a tuft, linear, bright green, 3-1 ft. long at the flowering time, 
channelled down the face, with an alliaceous scent when broken ; 
scape terete, above a foot. long; umbel 6-10-flowered ; pedicels 
i_4 in. long; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, an inch long; perianth 
white, tube campanulate, } in. long ; segments obovate, half as long 
again as the tube; corona greenish-white, half as long as the 
perianth-segments, deeply lobed; anthers reaching halfway up the 
corona, 
Eastern Recion : Natal, described from a living plant iu May, 1891, sent to 
Kew by Mr. J. M. Wood. : 
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