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DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF LILIACE®. ie ae 
longe. Perianthium flavo- viride 8-12 lin. longum. Filamenta seg- 
mentis interioribus sequilonga, interiora castrata. Stylus ee 
clavatus, ovario superans. Caput Bone Spei, Zeyher, ‘17 AF Harvey; 
812!. Cooper in Hort. Saunders. Delagoa Bay, Forbes 
4*, A. fibrosa, Baker, Gard. Chron., 1874, 386. et Bone 
ee “g lapidosis prope Somerset Kast, MacOwan, 1830!. 
%, polyphylla, Baker, Gard. Chron., 1874, p. 471. Caput 
ae Spei bh campis Somerset East, MacOwan, 1849!. The following 
are Mr. MacOwan’s notes on this interesting novelty :—‘‘ Bulb tuni- 
cated, producing many offsets between the lamin. Leaves 5 to 8 
linear 16-18 inches long, narrowed gradually from a 5-6 line base to 
the apex, concave above, convex bene uite smooth, deep green, 
not at all cous. Seca bglaucescent, erect, 2- dia- 
rect, lines in dia 
meter, 8-12 inches high, 15-20-flowered in an ultimately elongating 
loose raceme. Flowering peduncles 14 inch long, elongating in fruit. 
Bracts lanceolate attenuate, about half as long as the flowering 
peduncles, scarcely 2 lines wide, strongly reflexo-patent at the apex, 
yellowish-green with a pale submembranous margin. Exterior 
the alternate smaller, upon oblong-linear filaments, those of the larger 
sharply dilated at the base. Ovary bluntly triquetrous, with a 
secondary ridge in each re-entering angle. Style triquetro-prismatio 
The growth of this Albuca is peculi ngle season one bulb 
will produce from three to six offsets, some of which flow o 
later than the main scape. is process of rapid multiplication re- 
: raped G to 18 inches and the ace do not wither away in the upper 
half Fai is €: case with wild examples. 
upteaion eae section). Stamina exteriora castrata, 
Siyus sliformis elonga 
. A. (Lep vostyle) "Shaw, Baker, n.sp. Bulbus ovoideus 9-12 
Lae "nia Panicle albidis membranaceis apice nullo modo setiferis. 
ia 6-12 synanthia by anirhilee asian glabra 4-5 poll. longa 
3- 3 lin. crassa. Scapus firmus teres 6-9 pollicaris. Racemus laxis- 
sime 3-9 florus, Pa 3-4 poll. ree pedicellis erecto-patentibus 
apice cernuis, inferioribus 1-14 poll. longis. Bractew lanceolate cus- 
pidate 2-3 lin, longe. Perianthium 7-8 lin. Sede hi flavum, seg- 
mentis oblongis obtusis fata viridi vittati erioribus cucullatis 
Filamenta 4-5 5 Lin, longa, filifor sigan a deltoidea, alterna ivanthere 
posh poe ovario supera stigmate capitato obscure trilobato. 
‘aput i ad ripas sett “ Vaal river,” et in ditione Coles- 
berg, Dr. Shaw. Kaffrariain graminosis ad Kabousio alt. 3500 pedes, 
Murray, 54!. (Sent by Mr. MacOwan to Herb. Kew.) An interesting 
