Albuca.]} LILIACEZ (Baker). 453 
Leaves subterete : 
Leaves glabrous : 
Leaves usually3 .. ... a. see (22) humilis, 
Leaves 12-15 i 24} polyphylla, 
Leaves viscous 24) viscosa, 
Flowers yellow, banded with green : 
Leaves linear or lanceolate : 
Pedicels short, cernuous at the tip... «.. (25) fragrans, 
Pedicels erect : ; 
Tunics not split into fibres at the tip: 
Leaves straight ; pedicels long ie ds aurea, 
Leaves twisted ; pedicels short 27) tortuosa, 
Tunics split into fibres at the tip .. «+» (28) setosa. 
Leaves subterete : 
Leaves circinate, densely glandular-pubescent,.. (29) spiralis. 
Leaves straight, glabrous when mature : 
poe very slender... ... ... 0» (30) tenuifolia. 
"Daler tacked eae at the apex ... Ca Macowani. 
- Outer tunics produced and barred across (32) collina. 
Subgenus Leprosryta. Style cylindrical. 
She ‘ouly species cc a 
Imperfectly known ... + ese (84) parviflora. 
1. A. altissima (Dryand. in Vet. Acad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 1784, 
292) ; bulb depresso-globose, 13-2 in, diam. ; tunics membranous ; 
leaves 5-6, lanceolate, 13-2 ft. long, 14-2 in. broad low down, 
glaucous, tapering gradually to a long point, with incurved edges ; 
peduncle robust, 2-3 ft, long ; raceme lax, 1-1} ft. long; Podicels 
ascending, cernuous at the tip when in flower, lower 2-3 in. long; 
bracts lanceolate, lower an inch long; flowers inodorous ; perianth 
4-1 in. long, white, broadly keeled with green; outer “eemens 
sterile ; style prismatie, as long as or shorter than the ovary ae stigma 
tricuspidate. Jacg. Collect. ii, 264; Ic. i. 7, t. 63; W a. Sp. 
Plant. ii. 98 3; Roem, et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 494; Kunth. — 
iv. 373; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 286. A. alba, Lam. mcyc. 
176. A; cornuta, Red. Lil, t. 70; Kunth, Enum. loc, cit. 
Sourn Argica: without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Coasr Region : Mossell Bay Di. : Little Brak River, Burchell, 6197/4! 4 
Crnrrat Reaion : Somerset Div.; Brak River, between Somerset Kast 
Bruintjes Hoogte, MacOwan, 2130 ! < b 
2. A. glandulosa (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1875, iii. cag Spe 
globose, 1 in. diam. ; tunics membranous, not splitting into teed, 
the top; leaves 2-3, 3 ft. long, linear at the base, 4-3 ht green 
tapering to a semiterete point, rounded on the back, apres ray 
finely glandular; peduncle a foot long, terete, densely 8 icola 
Taceme corymbose, 3-flowered in the only specimen Oy edieals ; 
erect, 3-3 in, long ; bracts nearly or quite as long as a white, 
flowers very fragrant, permanently erect ; perianth 7 sp ; style 
with broad glandular bands UF an Rag = ; 
prismatic, as long as the ampulleform ovary. : 
Sours Argica: Fn locality. No specimen in os eee in April, 
ag osetibed from @ plant sent by Prof, MaeQwan that 
