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ALBUCA filifolia. 
Fine-leaved Albuca. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELI. Jussieu gen. 51. Div. LV. Flores spicati. — 
Radix bulbosa. Corolla sexpartita, basi staminifera. — 
ASPHODELEE. Brown prod. 1. 274. : 
ALBUCA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 277. 
Div. Corolle equaliter patentes, ; 
A. filifolia, foliis filiformibus flexuosis reflexis scapo longioribus, scapo sim- 
plici filiformi, racemo paucifloro. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 135; (sub ANTHE- 
Rico filifolio). 2 
Albuca filifolia. Nob. in loco presenti. 
Anthericum filifolium. Jacq. tc. rar. 2. t. 414. Coll. suppl. 93. Thund. 
prod. 62.2? Willd. in loco supra citato. 
Tota glabra. (Bulbus ovato-rotundus, compacto-squamosus sordescens, 
integumentis fuscis.) Folia radicalia plerumque tria, filiformia, semiteretia, 
acuta, nitida, bast purpurascentia, ceterdm viridia, magis minadsve flexuosa, 
reclinata, rigidula, longiora pedalia, una cum scapo intermedio ad basin 
comprehensa vagina una alterave scariosa, pallida, transversim striata, plus 
minus semunciam longa, in planta florente fissa et ad latus abscedente, Scapus 
teres, simplé®, nitidus, flecuosus, erectus, foliorum crassitie et fere longitu- 
dine, fafern’ purpureus. _Racemus terminalis, erectus. “Flores inodori, 
plus minus septem. Pedunculi vix semunciales, patuli, bracted suffulti lan- 
ceolato-acuminatéd. Corolle lacinie oblonge, obtuse, parumper concave, 
patentissime, albide cum lined utrinque longitudinali media virente, 3 
alterne. latiores. FVilamenta subulata, equalia, imberbia, erecta, corollé 
duplo breviora, alba. Anthere oblonge, erecte, flave. Germen superum, 
oblongum, triquetrum, Stylus filiformis, adscendens, albus, longitudine 
staminum. Stigma subcapitatum, villosum. Jacq. coll. suppl. 93, 94. 
The present species, as well as fugax of this work 
(fol. 311), and exuviata, vittata, and physodes of Curtis’s 
Botanical Magazine (Nos. 871, 1046, 1329), is far nearer 
akin to AtBuca than to Anruericum, in which last it has 
been deposited by Jacquin and all subsequent writers till 
removed by ourselves. It is very probable that the five, 
with some other kindred species, which have been mis- 
placed in AnruEricum, will be separated by others into a 
new genus; though in our view they are as conveniently sta- 
tioned in ALBuca. 
Filifolia has been now first introduced by Mr, Griffin, 
from the Cape-of Good Hope; where, according to Jacquin, 
it is found in Namaqua Land. 
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