_ Albuea.] LILIACEE (Baker). 459 
21, A. Baurii (Baker) ; bulb ovoid, 1-14 in. diam, ; tunics split- 
ting into copious persistent fibres at the top; leaves 5-6, linear- 
acuminate, glabrous, 1-12 ft. long, }-} in. broad low down; 
peduncle moderately stout, above a foot long; raceme short, few- 
flowered ; pedicels ascending, cernuons at the apex, lower 1} in. long; 
bracts lanceolate-acuminate, lower 2-1 in. long; perianth # in. 
long, white, broadly banded with green; stamens all fertile; style 
comparatively slender, rather longer than the ovary. 
Eastern ReGion: Tembuland: Bazeia, along river-banks, 2000-3000 ft., 
Baur, 414! 
_ 22. A. humilis (Baker in Kew Bullet. 1895, 158); bulb ovoid, 
3-3 in. diam.; leaves usually 3, narrow linear, erect, glabrous, 
3-6 in. long, 4-3 lin. broad; peduncle slender, 14-2 in. long; 
flowers 2-3, corymbose; pedicels erecto-patent, lower an inch long ; 
bracts small, lanceolate or ovate-acuminate; perianth 3 in. long; 
segments oblong, white, with a broad, red-brown, many-nerved keel ; 
_ stamens all antheriferous, rather shorter than the perianth ; filaments 
dilated at the base ; style prismatic, as long as the ovary. 
Eastgrn Reoion: Natal; wet rocks at the top of Tabamhlopi Mountain, 
6600 ft., Evans, 361! 
23. A. polyphylla (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 471); bulb 
ovoid, 13-2 in. diam. ; tunics not splitting into fibres at the apex ; 
leaves 12-15, subulate, bright green, glabrous, 2~3 in. long, not more 
than 3, in. diam.; peduncle slender, terete, glaucous, } ft. long; 
raceme few-flowered, corymbose ; pedicels erecto-patent, the lower 
above an inch long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, }-3 in. long; perianth 
permanently erect, ¢ in. long, white, banded with green, fading to 
reddish-brown; stamens all fertile ; style prismatic, as long as the 
ovary. 
CrentRaL ReGion: Somerset Div.; on the summit of Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., 
MacOwan, 2071! 
Described from a plant sent by Professor MacOwan, which flowered at Kew, 
March, 1874. 
24. A. viscosa (Linn. fil. Suppl. 196); bulb ovoid, 1-1} in. 
diam. ; tunics not splitting into fibres at the apex ; leaves saris 
nearly subulate, deeply channelled down the face, }—1 ft. long, '5—% in. 
broad, clothed with copious, persistent, sessile glands; peduncle 
about a foot Jong, slender, viscose; raceme laxly 6-12-flowered ; 
pedicels ascending, cernuous at the apex ; lower 1-2 in. long ; bracts 
small, lanceolate; flowers a yw poise’ 4 salen ape 
banded with green; stamens ertile ; style p 
the ovary ; Pr aio conical, entire. Dryand. in Vet. Acad. lenge 
Stockh. 1784, 297; Thunb. Prodr.65; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 
Jacq. Coll. Suppl. 99; Ie. ii. 21, t. 445 ; Willd. Sp. Plant, ii. 103 ; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 377; Lng A in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 289. 
Faleonera viscosa, Salish. Gen. 36. 
Coast Region: Mossel Bay Div.; between Hartenbosch and Mossel Bay, 
Burchell, 6222! 
