Refugium Botanicum.] [June, 1873, 
TAB, 349, 
Natural Order LimtAcEm. 
Tribe AGAPANTHE. 
Genus Tuntpacuta, Linn. 
T. auxracea (Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 60).  Foliis 5—6 glauco- 
viridibus suberectis linearibus 12—18 poll. longis 4—6 lin. 
latis, scapo tereti foliis longiori, umbellis 6—10-floris, 
spathe valvis lanceolatis pedicellis cernuis brevioribus, peri- 
anthio viridi 6—7 lin. longo, segmentis lanceolatis reflexis 
tubo equilongis, corona rubro-brunnea 2 lin. longa apice 
erosa-dentata, antheris ad dimidiam inferiorem corone sessi- 
libus biseriatis, ovario cum stylo tubo equilongo. — Baker, 
Linn, Journ, xi. 871. | 
A native of Cape Colony and Natal. 
Root of fleshy fibres. Leaves about half a dozen, suberect, 
fleshy, glaucous-green, linear, twelve to eighteen inches long, 
three-eighths to half an inch broad, narrowed to a point, chan- 
nelled down the face. Scape terete, exceeding the leaves, mottled 
with purple near the base. Valves of the spathe lanceolate, an 
inch long. lowers six to ten to an umbel, on cernuous pedicels 
an inch to an inch anda halflong. Perianth green, half to five- 
eighths of an inch long; the tube two to two and half lines thick ; 
the lanceolate segments nearly or quite as long as the tube, 
reflexed when fully expanded. Corona fleshy, red-brown, two 
lines deep, faintly toothed at the top. Anthers sessile, in a 
double row inside the lower half of the crown. Ovary with style 
and capitate stigma not exserted beyond the perianth-tube. 
Tas. 349.—1, single flower; 2, section of flower; 38, horizontal 
section of ovary: all magnified.—J. G. B. 

This is an interesting species, with flowers well marked by 
having the coronal cup crimson-brown. It grows freely and 
flowers well, planted in light sandy soil, and only requires the 
protection of a cool greenhouse or frame. It is easily increased 
by offsets. My stock of this plant I obtained from South Africa, 
through the exertions of Mr. Thos. Cooper.—W. W. 8. 
