Entry for NOTOSCEPTRUM alooides Benth. [family ASPHODELACEAE]
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
NOTOSCEPTRUM alooidesBenth. [family ASPHODELACEAE], in Gen. Plant. iii. 775
Urginea alooidesBolus [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 395.
Information
leaves several, lorate, 2 ft. long, rather fleshy, reflexing towards the apex; peduncle naked except a few empty bracts, stout, terete, woody, 2–3 ft. long; flowers in a dense cylindrical spike about a foot long, an inch in diameter; bracts ovate-cuspidate, scariose, nearly as long as the flowers; perianth 1/4– 1/3 in. long; tube very short; outer segments ovate-oblong, brownish-yellow; inner oblong, bright yellow, with a 1-nerved brown keel; filaments linear-subulate, 1/3 in. long; anthers 1/16 in. long; style finally 1/4 in. longer than the perianth. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Lydenburg Div., on the summit of the Devils Kop, near McMac, 5000–6000 ft., McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3011!
Notes
I leave this where Mr. Bentham has placed it, but feel satisfied that when fully known it will prove to be distinct generically from the true Notosceptra.
