532 CXL. LiLiACE.E (baker). [Albuca. 



11. A. Donaldsoni, Eendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 131. Bulb not 

 seen. Leaves linear, acuminate, with involute edges, reflexed, 1 ft. 

 long, 4-5 lin. broad low down. Peduncle shorter than the leaves. 

 Raceme dense, G in. long, 3-4 in. diam.; pedicels ascending; lower 

 ]^, in. long; bracts linear from a triangular base, lower 2 in. long. 

 Perianth 8 lin. long; segments cucullate at the apex, white with a broad 

 3-5-nerved brown keel. Stamens all perfect; anthers \ in. long; filaments 

 subulate from a triangular base. Ovary oblong, \ in. long; style subulate, 

 as long as the ovary. 



Wile Ziand. Somaliland; low country, east of the Shebele Kiver, Donaldson 

 Smith. 



No specimen at Kew. 



12. A. monophylla. Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 

 251. Bulb globose, under 1 in. diam.; outer tunics membranous, 

 brown. Leaf usually solitary, erect, terete, 1 ft. long, under 1 lin. 

 diam. Peduncle slender, shorter than the leaf. Raceme lax, 2-6- 

 flowered ; pedicels ascending, ^- J in. long ; bracts small, lanceolate. 

 Perianth J in. long; segments yellow, with a broad green keel. Anthers 

 all perfect, oblong, J lin. long; filaments lanceolate-subulate. Style 

 subulate, 2-3 times the length of the ovary. — A.juncifolia, Welw. Herb. 

 not of Baker. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo, Welivitsch, 3838 ! 



13. A. Buchanani, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 488. Bulb 

 small, ovoid. Leaves about 4, linear, acuminate, erect, 1-1 J ft. long, 

 channelled down the face, obscurely ciliated on the margin. Peduncle 

 slender, as long as the leaves. Raceme lax, 3-4 in. long; pedicels 

 ascending, :^-| in. long; bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicels. 

 Perianth J in. long ; segments yellow, with a broad green keel. 

 Anthers oblong, all perfect; filaments linear from an ovate base. 

 Ovary small, ovoid ; style subulate, J in. long 



IkXozamb. Sist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan I 



Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, October 1892. 



14. A. hereroensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 40. 

 Bulb. 3 in. diam., crowned with a ring of fibres. Leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, 4 in. long, concave in the lower part of the face. Raceme cylin- 

 drical, 8 in. long ; pedicels ascending, the lower \ in. long ; bracts ^ in. 

 long. Perianth J in. long ; segments oblong, \ in. broad, yellow with 

 a broad brown keel. Stamens all fertile ; filaments auricled at the 

 base. Style as long as the ovary. 



Iiower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; at Horn Krantz, on 

 granite. Fleck, 139 I and without precise locality, Schinz, 2 ! 



15. A. Melleri, Baker. Bulb ovoid, IJ in. diam. Leaves 4-5, 

 linear, H ft. long, l-h in. broad low down, clasping the base of the 

 peduncle. Peduncle 1-2 ft. long. Raceme very lax, 6-9 in. long ; 



