Albuca.] LILtacez (Baker). 455 
Ornithogalum canadense 8, Linn. Sp. Plant. edit. i. 308 (Herm, 
Parad. p. 209). 
Coasr Recion: Cape Div, ; Table Mountain, MacGillivray, 477! 
CENTRAL REGION: Somerset Div. ; near Somerset East, MacOwan, 1851!- 
6. A. Cooperi (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 366); bulb ovoid, 
4-1 in. diam, ; tunics splitting into long fine fibres at the tip; leaves 
about 4 to a bulb, linear, acuminate, glabrous, }~1 ft. long, } in. 
broad low down; peduncle slender, 3-I ft. long ; flowers inodorous, 
4-8 in a lax raceme 3 flower-pedicels cernuous at the apex, lower 
1-1} in. long ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1-3 in. long; peri- 
anth {~] in. long, pale yellow, broadly banded with green turning 
to red-brown ; outer stamens sterile; style prismatic, rather longer 
than the ovary. A. flaccida, Baker in Ref. Bot. t. 334, non Jacq. 
Sour Arnica: without locality, Forster! Harvey, 812! Zeyher, 1714! 
Coasr Re@ron: Cape Div.; sides of Table Mountain, Pappe ! 
7. A. Massoni (Baker in Journ. Bot, 1886, 336); bulb small; 
leaves 6-7, terete, glabrous, 2 ft. long, under a line in diameter ; 
peduncle slender, terete, about as long as the leaves ; raceme rhom- 
boid, 10-12-flowered, about 2 in. long and broad; pedicels -erecto- 
patent, lower an inch long; bracts lanceolate, lower 3 in. long; 
perianth greenish, } in, long; inner segments rather shorter than the 
outer, 
Coast Exoron; Clanwilliam Div.; near Oliphants River, Masson! 
Described from a drawing at the British Museum. It has no dissections, so 
that the character of the stamens is not shown. 
8. A. trichophylla (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1889, vi. 94); bulb 
ovoid, }~§ in. diam.; outer tunics membranous, not splitting into 
fibres at the tip; leaves 7-8, erect, subterete, papillate, deeply 
channelled down the face, 9-10 in. long, y; in. diam. ; peduncle 
slender, terete, flexuose, as long as the leaves, papillate ; flowers few, 
arranged in a lax raceme } ft. long; pedicels ascending, papillate, 
the lower an inch long; bracts small, lanceolate from a broad ore 5 
perianth bright yellow, 4 in. long; outer segments oblong, faintly 
green on the outside; stamens nearly as long as the segments ; oe 
anthers rudimentary; style prismatic, as long as the ovary. A. 
Elliotit, Baker in Journ, of Bot. 1891, 71. 
Kananarrt Region: Free State, oe af 887! Transvaal; crevices 
of sandstone rocks near Lake Chrissie, Elliot, mak ore 375! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; 
Described from a cultivated plant sent from Natal by Mr. Adlam to Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, 
9. A. minima (Baker); bulb subglobose, } in. diam. ; outer tunics 
membranous, se ‘ ou leaves not splitting into “¥ prion 
leaves 4, erect, terete, very slender, -finely pubescent, : in. 5 
bescent, 4 in. long; flowers 4 in a 
] slender, pu v 
ne sagt oy is pubescent ; lower pedicel spreading, an 
