Refugium Botanicum.| (August, 1868. 
TAB. 45. 
Natural Order Lin1Ace&. 
Tribe ScILLE#. 
Genus AuBuca, Linn. 
A. caupata (Jacq. Coll. iv. p. 203). Foliis linearibus scapo duplo bre- 
vioribus, floribus paucis laxis late thyrsoideis, pedicellis longissimis 
erecto-patentibus vel patentibus, perigonii segmentis albis plus 
minus cucullatis et viridi-carinatis, interioribus coherentibus, stylo 
triquetro trisulcato ovario paulo longiore.—Jacq. Icon. vol. ii. p. 20, 
t. 442; Willd. Sp. Plant. vol. ii. p. 102; Kunth, Monocot. vol. iv. 
p- 875. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Bulb two or three inches thick, round or oblong, crowned as in 
the preceding with brown fibres. Leaves about a foot long, four 
lines broad, more rigid than in the preceding, clasping the stem 
at the base and more or less concave on the face upwards, and 
keeled on the back. Scape two feet including the flowering part, 
erect, firm, terete, naked, the same colour as the leaves. Flowers 
eight to fifteen in number, arranged in a broad thyrsoid raceme ; 
the bracts quite similar to those of the preceding; the lower 
pedicels three or four inches long, spreading from the axis at 
right angles or somewhat ascending, the upper ones erecto-patent 
and about two inches long. Segments of the perianth the same 
colour and shape and arranged in the same way as in the pre- 
ceding. Stamens all fertile; the anthers yellow; the inner /ila- 
ments more flattened upwards than the outer ones. Style tri- 
quetrous, deeply three-grooved, exceeding the oblong ovary. 
Allied to A. fastigiata, from which it may be readily dis- 
tinguished by the ditterent leaves and racemes.—J. G. B. 
This Albuca was also sent to me from South Africa by Mr. 
Thos. Cooper. It 1s not quite so free to grow flower as Albuca 
fastigiata when treated in a similar manner.—W. W. S. 
