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ALBUCA fugax. 
Pugacious-flowered Albuca. 
; HEXANDRIA M/ONOGYNI4., 
Nat. ord. AspnopEvi. Jussieu gen. 51. Div. IV. 
AsSPHODELER. Brown prod. 274, 
ALBUCA. Supra fol. 277. 
Div. Corollis equalitér patentibus. 
A. fugaz, foliis numerosis, subtrigono-filiformibus, subulatis, duplo brevio- 
ribus scapo, erectis: stylo declinato, curvo. : 
Anthericum fragrans. Jacq. hort. scheenb. 1.45. t. 86. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 135. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 266. 
Bulbus sebrotundus, compacto-squamosus, sordescens. Fol. numerosa, 
erecto-patula, fasciculato-ambientia, carnosa, semitereti-linearia, subulata, 
obsolete et obtusé subtrigona, hinc planiora, recta, semipedalia, crassitudine 
Jeré penne corvine, non glauca, vagina radicali nulla. Scapus pedalis v. 
ultra, teres, erectus, glaucus, plurimiim cressior foliis, racemo terminali, 
laxiuscylo, multifloro, patente, semipedali v, ultra. . Pedunculi patentes, 
breviores flore, semunciales. Bracteze breviores pedunculis, membranacee, 
albicantes, acuminate. Cor. horizontem respiciens, succulenta, tenera, citd 
collabens, ultra unciam transversa, subrotata, laciniis non contiguis, oblongis, 
obtusis, apice incurvis, albidis, extis et summitate colore sordid? purpureo 
artim suffusis, lined media viridi profundé carinata percursis. Stam. duplo 
i is corolla, equalia, glabra, paululim declinata: fil. subulata: anth. 
Sflave. erecta, oblonga, wertice hiantes, Pist. subequale corolle: germ. ob- 
longum, prismaticum, angulis bicostatis: stylus purpurascens, crassiusculus, 
lineari-triqueter, declinatus, curvo leni assurgens: stigma cavum, subtrifidos 
apertum, pubescens. 
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The present plant evidently comes nearer to this genus, 
both in character and habit, than to either ANnruertcum or 
Orniruocatum. It belongs to the section in which we have 
placed exuviata, vittata, and physodes in Curtis’s Magazine 
(Nos. 871, 1046, 1329), species which will probably be at 
some period formed into a separate genus. 
Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Mas- 
son in 1795, The drawing was taken from a sample which 
flowered in June last in Mr. Griffin’s conservatory at South 
Lambeth, and was produced by a bulb which had been 
sent from the Cape. 
Bulb round, compactly scaled, of a pale squalid purplish 
brown. Leaves numerous, fascicled, upright, slightly di- 
vergent, fleshy, semicylindrically linear, subulate, obse- 
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