S70 .. A NEW SPECIES OF ALBUCA FROM ADEN. 
limbo partito, inflorescentia axillari, patria. Majori distantia 
recedit ab omnibus aliis congeneribus ejusdem subtribus. Nomen 
Creaghia huic generi indidi ab illustri viro C. V. Creagh, qui dum 
botanicam rem studiose fovet, de ea bene meretur. 
C. fagreeaopsis. — Ar bor facie Fagree, glabra, excepta 
minuta lanugine calycis ac petalorum, usque ad 40 paras foliis 
late obovatis emarginatis coriaceis, integerrimis 8-10" 6” 
latis, _ robusto 1” longo, superne nitidis, enfin anil 
rimariis nervis utrinque promingatibue. Panicule foliis paullo 
longioribus, pedunculis primariis ac secundariis longis, pedicellis 
circiter 3” longis. Calycis lobi triangularés salvati post anthesin 
reflexl mox perituri unam lineam metientes, parce memos 
lamina lobi minus obovata pallida nervis prominu ulis percursa 1” 
lata corolle lobis breviora, cum iis in expansione eee stellatim 
atentia, ac pariter haud aliis persistentia. Discus expansus Vix 
gabe. in insertione filamenti. Stylus glaber ; stiginatibias pariter 
glabris 
In humidosis sry civitatem Thaiping, juxta flumen Larut in 
Peninsula Malayan 
A NEW SPECIES OF ALBUCA FROM ADEN. 
By H. N. Rivtey, M.A., F.L.S. 
section to which it belongs is iypieslyy a Tropical African one, and 
it seems most nearly aaa to A. abyssinica Jacq. 
Albuca Yerburyi, n. sp.—Bulbus...... Folia linearia 
janechtata basi hispida, 14. ancialia, 8 3-4 in lata. Scapus plus quam 
9-uncialis, racemus laxus, Flores 9 vel ultra, sage pedi- 
cellati ; pediceli tenues 1-uncia longi, bracter mbranacee 
lanceolat gg: acuminate, quam pedicelli lo san vix semi- 
latiora obtusa, i i omnia fertilia quam petala paullo breviora, 
filamenta basi dilatata complanata, supra filiformia, pist illum 
staminibus equale; we filiformis — ovarium ovoideum 
Aden. — Yerbury, 1884, No. 7 in Herb. Mus. Brit. 
‘Flowers yellow. Only found within the last 200 ft. ‘of the 
Shum-Shum Range. Flowers in Marcel.” 
