RefiKjium Bo tan icum .] 
[September, 1870. 
TAB. 239. 
Natural Order Liliace^. 
Tribe Scille.^:. 
Genus Albuca, Linn. 
A. MINOR (Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 438). Bulbo ovoicleo tunicis exterioribus 
sursum liberis membranaceis, foliis 5 — 6 aaguste linearibus viridi- 
bus glabris carnoso-herbaceis, suberectis pedalibus vel ultra facie 
concavis, scapo erecto foliis excedente, racemo 6 — 12-floro laxo 
thyrsoideo, bracteis pedicellis ascendentibus multo brevioribus, 
floribus cernuis segraentis flavis late viridi-vittatis, stamiuibus 
alternis sterilibus. — Willd. 8p. Plant, ii. 100 ; Bot. Mag. t. 720 ; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 374. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Bulb ovoid, twelve to fifteen lines thick, the outer coats mem- 
branous round the base of the stem. Leaves five or six, cotem- 
porary with the flowers, narrow-linear, fleshy-herbaceous, sub- 
erect, a foot or more long when fully developed, three to six lines 
broad in the lower half, bright green, glabrous, very concave on 
the face. Scape firm, erect, slender, terete, twelve to eighteen 
inches long exclusive of the raceme. Raceme narrow-thyrsoid, 
six- to twelve -fiowered, six to nine inches long when expanded, 
by three to four inches broad. Bracts lanceolate, membranous, 
four to six lines long. Pedicels ascending, the lower fifteen to 
eighteen lines long ; the floicers cernuous. Perianth nine to 
twelve lines deep, the divisions bright yellow with a broad green 
keel, the outer four to four and a half lines broad, the inner 
paler, rather shorter, permanently connivent, with a reniform 
green papillose crest. Stamens nearly as long as the inner 
divisions, the three opposite the outer segments without anthers 
and twice hooked at the tip. Style obconic, triquetrous, i)apillose, 
equal to the oblong ovary. 
Tab. 239. — 1, flower, with perianth stripped away ; 2, inner segment 
of perianth, and a fertile stamen ; 3, a staminode : all magnified. —J". G. B. 
A plant long known to botanists, but requiring a good figure 
to point out its characters, which is my object in giving it a 
place in the * Refugiiim.' It grows freely in any light sandy soil, 
and requires the protection of a frame or cool greenhouse. 
Mr. T. Cooper sent me bulbs of this plant from South Africa. — 
W. W. S. 
