Entry for LACHENALIA anguinea Sweet [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
LACHENALIA anguineaSweet [family HYACINTHACEAE], Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 179;—Kunth, Enum. iv. 289; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 408.
Scillopsis anguineaLemaire [family ], in Ill. Hort. iii. Misc. 34.
Information
bulb 1/2 in. diam.; leaf single, smooth, lanceolate, 6–9 in. long, about an inch broad, spotted with cross-bars of darker green on the back; peduncle 4–6 in. long, spotted with purple; raceme 2 1/2–3 in. long; pedicels cernuous at the tip, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; perianth campanulate, whitish tipped with green, 1/3 in. long; inner segments scarcely longer than the outer; stamens much exserted, rather declinate. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Known to me only from the figure cited, which was drawn from a plant in Mr. Colvill's garden in 1825, gathered by Synnot.
