462 LILIACEZ (Baker). [ Albuca. 
1-12 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 4-# in. long; 
perianth $-1 in. long, yellow, broadly barred with green; style com- 
paratively slender, as long as the ovary; stigma tricuspidate. 
Centrat Reeion: Graaff Reinet, on stony hills, 2500 ft., Bolus, 786! 
33. A. Shawii (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 367); bulb ovoid, 
8_] in, diam. ; tunics whitish, membranous, not splitting into fibres 
at the top; leaves 6-12, filiform, very slender, glabrous, 4-5 in. 
long ; peduncle slender, 6-10 in. long ; raceme very lax, 3-9-flowered; 
pedicels cernuous at the apex, lower 1-14 in. long; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, }-1 in. long; perianth yellow, keeled with 
green, 3-§ in. long; anthers of the outer stamens very small and 
sterile ; style cylindrical, longer than the ovary; stigma distinctly 
3-lobed. 
Coast ReaGion: Stutterheim Div. ; Kabousie, 8500 ft., Murray, 54! 
CzuntraL Rea@ion : Colesberg, Shaw ! 
Katanaki Reaion: Vaal River, Shaw ! 
34. A. parviflora (Donn, Hort. Cantab. edit. xi. 123); bulb sub- 
globose ; peduncle erect, 6-10 in. long; flowers small, yellowish- 
green, subsessile ; bracts small, narrow, acuminate. Dietr. Gartenlex. 
edit, 2, i. 237; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 502; Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 377. 
Soutn Aragica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation in 1791. Known to me only from the above in- 
sufficient description. Probably an Ornithogalwm or Urginea. 
XXXIV. URGINEA, Steinh. 
Perianth polyphyllous, deciduous; segments subequal, oblong, 
I-nerved on the keel in the Cape species. Stamens 6, inserted on 
the base of the perianth-segments ; filaments filiform or flattened at 
the base or middle; anthers linear or linear-oblong, versatile, de- 
hiscing introrsely. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 3-celled ; ovules superposed, 
few or many in a cell; style filiform; stigma capitate. Capsule 
globoso-triquetrous, membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds dis- 
coid, often winged ; testa black, membranous; albumen fleshy. 
Rootstock a tunicated bulb; leaves filiform or lanceolate, often not produced 
till after the flowers; peduncle naked; raceme simple; bracts often — 
—_— at the base or middle; flowers whitish, with green or purple-browD 
Has. Species about 40, Extends * ; < : 
and India. to Tropical Africa, the Mediterranean region, 
Flowers very small (}—3 in. long) ; bracts mi i 
the lower acne ten. : oe 
Leaves terete : 
Tall, raceme 5-6 in. Rk at oe CO) 
Dwarf, raceme 2-3 ia tee $ _ 
soo ove Ss wees (2) Momatodes. 
Lower pedicels 7 in, long far eee Led (3) tenella. 
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