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The genus Alhura in the Herljurinm of the Albany Museum, 

 Grahamstown (with (lescriptions of 14 new species) by 

 J. G. Baker, F.R.8., h\te Keeper of the Herbarium, 

 Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Subgenus Eualhuca. 



A. aUissima, Dryand. Oatlands Park, Grahamstown, alt. c. 

 19t»0\ Miss M. Daly et Miss M. Hole, No. 317, Oct. 1902. 



(In the specimen collected by Miss Daly and Miss Sole, the bulbs are in 

 pairs, each about 1 inch in diameter, the tunics are split into bristles 

 above, the peduncle is about 1 foot long, the raceme a few inches long, 

 the lowest pedicel is less tlian 1 inch long, none of the pedicels is 

 cernuous at the tip, the brsicts are ovate-lanceolate, the outer stamens 

 have small anthers which are polliniferous, the style is longer than the 

 ovary. — S. Schonland.) 



A. minor, L. C. B. Spei, regio occidentalis, Kleenkobbis, in 

 collibus, alt. 800', R. Schlechter, No. 10,989, Aug. 1897 ; Vogel- 

 klipp in collibus, alt. 2,(500', R. Schlechter, No. 11,307, Sept. 1897 : 

 in arenosis ad cataractam Tulbaghensem, alt. 500', R. Schlechter, 

 No. 1,397, Sept. 1892.— Grahamstown, B. South, Nov. 1893 ; Miss 

 M. Daly et Miss M. Sole, No 353a, Oct. 1902.— Port Alfred, alt. c. 

 80', S. Schonland, No. 1,544, Sept. 1902. 



A. minor, L. ? C. B. Spei, regio occidentalis, Kleenkobbis, 

 in collibus, alt. 800', R. Schlechter, No. 10,991 ?, Aug., 1897. 



(In this specimen the outer tunics are split into fibres, and the lower 

 portion of the leaves is coarsely corrugate. — S. Sch.) 



.4. Cooperi, Baker. Port Elizabeth, J. L. Drege, No. 72, 

 Aug. 1903. 



A. trtchofjliylla. Baker. Gi-ahamstown, Miss M. Daly et Miss 

 M. Sole, No. 353, Oct. 1902. 



A. hifulia, Bakei- n. sp. ibilbus giobosus, 1 poll, diam., tunicis 

 albis membranaceis. Folia 2 lanceolata suberecta plana glabra 3-4 



