OBSERVATIONS ON THE FERTILISATION ANO HYBRIDISATION OF 
SOME SPECIES OF A L B U C A, 
By Dr. 'JTohn H. Wilson. 
Curator of the Herbarium and Library, Royal Botanic Garden , 
Edinburgh. 
(PLATE VIII). 
ALBUCA CORYMBOSA, Baker. 
In 1885 my brother, M r Alexander Wilson, found a new 
Albuca near Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope. It occurred 
in considerable numbers on a piece of somewhat flat and 
stony,but fairly good ground, near Walmer, in the vicinity 
of a plot reserved by the Port Elizabeth authorities to be 
converted into a public park. It flowered at S l Andrews, (1) 
Scotland, in 1886, and was sent to Kew, where 
M r J. G. Baker named it Albuca (Eualbuca) corymbosa, 
the description appearing in the « Gardeners’ Chronicle, » 
vol. XXVI. July 1886, p. 38. Cultivation of the plant 
has enabled me to supplement and modify some points 
in M r Baker’s description, which was drawn up from a 
comparatively young bulb. Statistics of growth of some¬ 
what older plants are given in a previous paper (2; on the 
.present subject. 
(1) The experiments detailed in this paper were all earned out at 
St-Andrews. 
(2) Trans, of Botanical Society, Edinburgh, Vol. XVI. p. 365. 
