Albuca.] LILIACEZ (Baker). 457 
broadly banded with green ; outer stamens sterile ; style prismatic, 
as long as the ovary. 
Centra ReGion: stony places near Somerset. East, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1830! 
14. A. corymbosa (Baker in Gard. Chron, 1886, xxvi. 38) ; bulb 
globose, above 1 in. diam., neck very short; outer tunics splitting 
into fibres; leaves 6-8, glabrous, terete, convex on both back and 
face, 1-2 ft. long, 2 in. broad low duwn, tapering to the apex; 
peduncle terete, } ft. long; flowers 5-10 in a lax corymb, scented, 
erect ; lower pedicels 3-4 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate or ovate ; 
perianth an inch long, yellow, banded with green; inner stamens 
sterile’; style prismatic, as long as the ovary. 
Coast ReGion: Port Elizabeth, Wilson ! 
Described from a living plant sent by Dr. John Wilson, of St. Andrew’s, in 
July, 1886. See Dr. Wilson’s paper on the fertilization of this plant in Trans. 
Bot. Soc. Edinb. xvi. 365. 
15. A. viridiflora (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 98; Ic. ii. 21, t. 446) ; 
bulb globose, 1-12 in. diam. ; tunics not splitting into fibres at the 
top; leaves 6-9, linear-subulate, channelled down the face, a foot 
long, densély glandular-pubescent; peduncle a foot long, glandular 
towards the base ; raceme laxly 6-10-flowered ; pedicels cernuous at 
the apex, the lower 14-2 in. long; bracts lanceolate, $-1 in. long ; 
flowers inodorous ; perianth 3-1 in. long ; the segments green, with 
a pale yellow margin; outer stamens sterile; style prismatic, as 
long as the ovary. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 100; Bot. Mag. t. 1656 ; 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 496 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 374; Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soc, xiii. 287, 
Sour Argica : without locality. 
Known to me only from Jacquin’s figure and description. 
16. A. Nelsoni (N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1880, xiv. 198, 
t. 41) ; bulb globose, as large as an apple; tunics thick, green, not 
split into fibres at the top; leaves 46, lanceolate, acuminate, bright 
green, glabrous, 3~4 ft. long, 2 in. broad low down ; peduncle stout, 
stiffly erect, 2-3 ft. long; raceme lax, a foot or more long; — 
ascending, lower 2—3 in. long; bracts lanceolate, the lower oe in. 
long ; flowers erect ; perianth 14 in. long, white, broadly banded 
with greenish- or reddish-brown ; stamens all fertile ; style prismatic, 
longer than the ovary, Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 6649. 
Eastzen REGION: Natal; in an open glade near the Umlazi River, Nelson 
Described from a plant cultivated at Kew. 
17. A. crinifolia (Baker); bulb not seen; leaves lorate, thin, 
membranous, distinctly veined, resembling those of Crinum zeylant- 
cum, 2-8 ft. long, 3-3} in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually 
to the base, and furnished with a distinct midrib throughout ; 
peduncle 2 ft. long, moderately robust ; raceme lax, } ft. long; 
pedicels ascending, lower 2 in. long; bracts pe ogg a gan 
longer than the pedicels; perianth 1 in, long, white, banded 
