Refugium Botanicum. | iclugust, 1863. 
TAB. 44. 
Natural Order LILiIacEs. 
Tribe ScILLER. 
Genus AnBuca, Linn. 
A. Fastietata (Dryand. in Act. Holm. 1784, p. 296). Foliis linearibus 
scapo excedentibus, floribus numerosis late thyrsoideis, pedicellis 
inferioribus longissimis, superioribus brevibus, omnibus . erecto- 
patentibus, perigonii segmentis albis plus minus cucullatis et viridi- 
carinatis, interioribus coherentibus, stylo obtuse trigono ovario 
paulo longiore. — Thunb. Prodr. p. 65; Hjus. Fl. Cap. p. 381; 
Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. p. 101; Andrews, Bot. Rep. t. 450; Red. Lil. 
t.474: Bot. Reg. t. 277; Roem. and Schult. vii. p. 498; Kunth, 
lv. p. 375. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Bulb two or three inches thick, crowned with the brown fibrous 
upper free part of its outer coats, producing only a single stem. 
Leaves twelve to eighteen inches long, linear-lanceolate, about 
three-quarters of an inch broad in the lower part, flaccid, 
recurved, glabrous, bright green, the edge slightly ciliated, 
clasping the stem at the base but not dilated. Scape about a foot 
high, naked, firm, subterete. Flowers in an ample broad many- 
flowered subdeltoid thyrsoid raceme twelve to eighteen inches 
long and sometimes a foot broad in the lower part; the pedwneles 
green, naked, erecto-patent, nearly straight or slightly curved 
upwards, the lower ones reaching a length of four to six inches, 
the upper ones growing gradually shorter, till at last the upper- 
most flowers are nearly sessile. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 
about an inch long, membranous with a more or less herbaceous 
centre. Perianth about an inch deep; the segments ligulate- 
oblong with a green keel on the outside, the rest pure white, all 
more or less hooded at the point, the outer three loose and 
curving round as the flower grows, the three inner ones cohering 
permanently, broader in the lower part than the outer ones and 
the hood crested with a yellow tubercle. Ovary and style deeply 
three-grooved, the latter a little the longest in the flower and 
hairy upwards. Stamens all fertile.—J. G. B. 
A tall-growing species of Albuca, of easy cultivation in a cool 
greenhouse or frame. It requires rich sandy loam, with plenty 
of pot-room. I received the plant from South Africa, where it 
was collected by Mr. Thos. Cooper.—W. W. 8. 
