Albuca.]} LILIACEZ (Baker). 461 
29. A. spiralis (Linn. fil. Suppl. 196) ; bulb small, ovoid ; tunics _ 
not splitting into fibres at the top; leaves 10-12, subterete, 6-9 in, 
long, channelled down the face, circinate at the apex, densely 
glandular-pubescent ; peduncle slender, 6-8 in. long; raceme laxly 
4—6-flowered ; pedicels cernuous at the apex, lower 2-1 in. long ; 
bracts lanceolate, 4-3 in. long ; flowers inodorous ; perianth $3 in, 
long, yellow, banded with green; stamens all fertile ; style pris- 
matic, as long as the ovary; stigma tricuspidate. Thunb. in Vet. 
Acad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 1786, 59, t. 2, fig.1; Prodr. 65 : #7. 
Cap. edit. Schult. 331; Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 100; Ic. ii, 20, t, 439; 
Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 104; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 503 ; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 377 ; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xiii. 289. Fal- 
conera spiralis, Salisb. Gen. 36. 
Souty AFrica: without locality, Harvey ! 
Coast Region; Malmesbury Div.; summit of Riebeks Castle, Thunberg. 
Not in Kew Herbarium. 
30. A. tenuifolia (Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 335); bulb ovoid, 
2-{ in. diam.; tunics membranous, not splitting into fibres at the 
top; leaves 6-9, terete, very slender, 6-9 in. long, 2 lin. diam., 
faintly channelled dewn the face, obscurely glandular: peduncle 
slender, 4-6 in. long; flowers few, laxly corymbose; pedicels 
erecto-patent, lower 2-3 in. long; lower bracts 3-1 in. long; 
perianth erect, ? in. long, pale yellow, banded with green, turning to 
reddish-brown; stamens all fertile; style triquetrous in the upper 
half, longer than the ovary. Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xiii. 
288, 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, MacOwan. Not in Kew Herbarium. 
Described from a cultivated plant. A specimen collected near Graaff Reinet 
( Bolus, 823) is either this or nearly allied, but the leaves are not glandular. 
31. A. Macowani (Baker); bulb globose, 1} in. diam., producing 
abundant offsets, forming a large cushion of compacted bulbs ; 
tunics truncate, not produced above its neck, and not splitting into 
fibres at the top; leaves 6-8, Jinear-subulate, bright green, glabrous, 
1-1} ft. long, 2 in. broad, channelled down the face; peduncle 
terete, 3-13 ft. long; raceme lax, few-flowered, subcorymbose, 
3-6 in. long; pedicels erect, lower 2-3 in. long ; bracts lanceolate, 
acuminate, lower 3-1} in. long; perianth 7 in. long, dull yellow, 
broadly banded with green; stamens all fertile ; style prismatic, as 
long as the ovary. A. polyphylla, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 367, 
but not of Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 471. 
Centrat Reeion: Somerset Div.; near’ Somerset East, 2200 ft., MacOwan, 
1840! 1849! 
32. A. collina (Baker); outer tunics of the bulb produced much 
above its neck, Aone across as in Sypharissa, and ogg into 
fibres at the tip; leaves about 4, subterete, glabrous, 1-1; ft. long, 
sin, diam. low down; peduncle curved, slender, 4-6 in. long; 
raceme few-flowered, lax, subeorymbose; pedicels permanently erect, 
