1 88 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



long slender curved pedicels. Found in the Eastern and 

 Kalahari regions. 



Albuca. — Outer perianth lobes spreading, inner shorter, 

 having a hood-shaped process at the tip, and furnished with a 

 large gland. Stamens all fertile, or the three anthers of the 

 outer small or wanting; filaments often winged at base. 

 Leaves all radical. Flowers in racemes, large yellow or white, 

 banded with green or brown, rarely quite green. 



Found in the Coast, Central, Eastern, and Kalahari 

 regions. 



Eucomis may be easily recognized by its crown of leafy 

 empty bracts. Perianth segments joined 

 just at the base. Stamens borne on the 

 perianth; flowers greenish, marked with 

 purple. 



Fig. 192. — Lachenalia 

 tricola. 



Fig. 193. — Gloriosa superba. Fig. 194. — Sandersonia 



aurantiaca. 



From the Malmesbury district to Natal. 



Ornithogalum. — Perianth withering on the stalk. Sta- 

 mens hypogynous. Style short. Leaves all radical. Flower 

 in a raceme. The lower flower-stalks lengthened so as to make 

 a flat-topped corymb, which lengthens after flowering. 



About 70 species are found in South Africa. The large bulbs of .some 

 species store so much food thai if ihu bulbs are gathered in early flowering 



