©rtgtual ^vticlts. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND LITTLE KNOWN 

 LILIACE.^. 



By J. G. Baker, F.R.S. 



The following are descriptions of new or obsciirely-kuown 

 LiUace(E belonging to the tribes which I have monographed in the 

 ' Journal of the Linnean Society', from specimens received from 

 various sources during the last two or three years. The numbers 

 prefixed to the names indicate the position of the j)lants in the 

 sequence followed in my jDapers. Type specimens of all are in the 

 herbaria of Kew or the British Museum. 



3.* TuLBAGHiA Cameroni, BcikeT, n. s^d. Bulb and leaves not 

 seen. Scape slender, half a foot long. Spathe-valves lanceolate, 

 membranous, an inch long. Umbels 3-4-flowered ; pedicels \ in. 

 long. Perianth whitish, -| in. long ; tube oblong, \ in. long. 

 Segments lanceolate, white, with a red-brown keel, 4-4^ lines 

 long, the inner adhering to the corona half a line higher up than 

 the outer. Corona campanulate, subentire, -^^ in. deep to the base 

 of inner segments, ^ in. to base of outer. Ovary subglobose, ^ in. 

 long. Style not exserted from the corona. 



Banks of Lake Tanyanika, Lieut. Cameron! A few years ago 

 Tulbaghia was known at the Cape only. Now Cameron has found 

 this species far within the tropical Hmits, and Dr. Welwitsch 

 another in Angola. 



10.* Massonia calvata. Baker, n. sp. Leaves 2, spreading, 

 roundish, 2-3 in. long and broad ; main ribs about 30 ; face when 

 young tuberculato-hispid, when older smooth and glabrous. 

 Corymb dense, sessile ; outer bracts green, reaching to the top of 

 the flowers ; pedicels \-\ in. long. Perianth white, i in. long ; 

 segments lanceolate, equalling the tube. Filaments as long as the 

 perianth- segments ; anthers minute, oblong. 



Cape Colony, eastern district. Bolus, 749 ! 



10.* Massonia orientalis. Baker, n. sp. Leaves roundish, 

 spreading, glabrous, smooth, obtuse, about 3 in. long and broad. 

 Corymb dense, sessile ; outer bracts oblong, acute, an inch long ; 

 pedicels ^-^ in. Perianth pure white, f in. long ; segments 

 lanceolate, i in. Filaments as long as the perianth -segments ; 

 anthers yellow, very minute. 



Cape Colony, on sand-dunes at Port Elizabeth, Bolus, 2239 ! 

 This and the last come near to one another, and to M. Huttoni 

 and versicolor. 



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