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Eucomis undulata

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Eucomis undulata Aiton [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Entry for EUCOMIS undulata Ait. [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
EUCOMIS undulata Ait. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 433, edit. 2, ii. 246;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 93; Thunb. Diss. Nov. Gen. 129; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 317; Bot. Mag. t. 1083; Kunth, Enum. iv. 302.
EUCOMIS regia Red. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Lil. iii. t. 175.
Fritillaria longifolia Hill. [family LILIACEAE], Hort. Kew. 354; and edit. 2, 354, t. 15.
Ornithogalum undulatum Thunb. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Prodr. 62.
Basilæa coronata Lam. [family ], Encyc. i. 382.
Fritillaria autumnalis Miller [family LILIACEAE], Dict. edit. 8, No. 10.
Information
bulb globose, 2–3 in. diam.; leaves 6–9, lorate-lanceolate, finally 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 2–3 in. broad at the middle, acute or obtuse, thin in texture, undulated towards the margin, not spotted on the back; peduncle cylindrical, 1/2–1 ft. long; raceme dense, oblong, 3–6 in. long, 2 in. diam.; upper flowers patent, subsessile; lower patent or cernuous, on very short pedicels; lower bracts ovate; leaves of the coma 12–30, oblong, acute, crisped, membranous, 1 1/2–2 in. long; perianth green, 1/2 in. long; segments oblong or oblanceolate-oblong; filaments 1/4 in. long, lanceolate-deltoid in the lower half; capsule subglobose, 1/3 in. diam. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; upper part of the Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 1907! Graaff Reinet Div.; south side of the Sneeuw Berg Range, Burke! summit of Cave Mountain, 4200 ft., Bolus, 564! Colesberg Div.; near the Hondeblats River, Burchell, 2701! near Colesberg, Shaw!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div., Ecklon and Zeyher, 102!EASTERN REGION Transkei Mountains, Mrs. Barber! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 436! 853!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; Mud River Drift, Rehmann, 3614! without precise locality, Cooper, 3285! Transvaal; Mooi River, Burke! summit of Saddleback Range, 5000 ft., Galpin, 712!
Notes
We have at Kew old garden specimens dried by Gouan, Fothergill (1780), and Bishop Goodenough (1781).

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