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pedigree will be watched with interest. In the case of the 
last on the list an opportunity will be given of noticing the 
effect of a converse cross, hybrid a being formerly the 
seed-bearing parent. The second and third afford another 
instance of the same. The converse of the first enumerated 
was attempted but did not succeed. The experiments, 
however, were entered on very late in the season. 
A. TRICHOPHYLLA, Baker. 
Besides the above, other experiments were instituted 
during the past summer, in which species much more 
distinct from each other in general appearance than those 
hitherto treated of were involved. A. ( Eualbuca :) tricJio- 
; yhylla , Baker (1), has been for certain hybridised with 
A. corymbosa and with hybrid a. A. tricTiophylla has been 
quite recently introduced. It has slender subterete leaves, 
and small bright yellow and strongly odorous flowers 
which are cernuous and borne in a loose raceme. The outer 
anthers are quite aborted (in my plants). The mechan¬ 
ism of the flower is as usual, the inner segments being 
permanently connivent. Much interest is attached to the 
fact that in both cases the flowers of the one parent are 
erect and those of the other cernuous. During the course 
of maturation the fruit of the latter gradually bends 
upward till it attains the erect position. This upward 
movement also takes place to some degree while the 
unfertilised flower is fading. 
The genus Albuca is particularly worthy of study as it 
affords a compact, well-marked series of gradational forms 
(1) Gard. Chron. YoL VI. 3 r <l Series, 1889, p. 94. 
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