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Albuca (About thirty species are known)

About thirty species are known, all natives of South and tropical Africa, and requiring green-house treatment except where otherwise stated. To those described on p. 45, Vol. I., the following should now be added: A. corymbosa (corymbose-flowered). fl. five or six in a lax corymb; perianth yellow, banded green, the inner segments hooded, connivent; outer stamens having no anthers; peduncle 6in. long. l. six to eight, terete, 1ft. or more in length. 1886.

A. juncifolia (Rush-leaved). fl. greenish-yellow, inodorous, drooping, ten to fifteen in a deltoid panicle 4in. to 5in. long; perianth 1in. long. August. l. twenty to thirty, sub-terete, 1ft. long, 1/8in. to 1/6in. in diameter, tapering to a point. 1876. (B. M. 6395.) A. Wakefieldii (Wakefield's). fl. pale green, ten to twelve in a lax raceme 6in. to 9in. long; perianth 1in. long, the inner segments bordered white; scape longer than the leaves. Autumn. l. four or five, linear-ensiform, flaccid, glabrous, 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. long, 1in. broad at base, tapering to a point. Eastern tropical Africa, 1878. Stove. (B. M. 6429.)