. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). LACHENALIA THE BULB BOOK LACHENALIA K. Roscoeana.—A Burmese stem- less species about 6 ins. high, with roundish pointed leaves variegated on the upper surface. The white flowers appear about October. {Bot. Mag. t. 5600.) K. rosea.—A native of British Central Africa, having a short fleshy root-stock and thickish string-like
. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). LACHENALIA THE BULB BOOK LACHENALIA K. Roscoeana.—A Burmese stem- less species about 6 ins. high, with roundish pointed leaves variegated on the upper surface. The white flowers appear about October. {Bot. Mag. t. 5600.) K. rosea.—A native of British Central Africa, having a short fleshy root-stock and thickish string-like roots. The leaves, including the stalk, are about 18 ins. long and 4 ins. broad, with a bright green plaited blade. The bright rose-red flowers, with a blotch of orange in the throat, are over 2 ins. , and are borne on scapes 18 ins. high. {Gard. Chron. 1904, XXXV. 20.) K. rotunda {K. longa).—A very old East Indian species about a foot high, having numerous irregularly shaped aromatic root-stocks; long - stalked, oblong, lance-shaped leaves, smooth and green above, downy and purple beneath. The sweet-scented white flowers, striped with red on the margins, appear in summer. (Bot. Mag. tt. 920, 6054; Garden, 1888, t. 662.) K. secunda. — A native of the Khasia Hills, Assam, etc., with leaves 3 to 4 ins. long, membranous, obliquely lance-shaped, pointed. Flowers in August and September, reddish with a white centre. (Bot. Mag. t. 6999.) LACHENALIA (after Mons. de la Chenal (b. 1736, d. 1800), a Swiss botanical author). Nat. Ord. Liliaceae. —^A genus containing about forty species of South African bulbous plants closely related to the Hyacinths and Scillas, having tunicated egg- shaped bulbs, fleshy strap-shaped leaves sometimes mottled or spotted, and erect scapes bearing numerous drooping tubular flowers, in which the three inner segments are often longer than the three outer ones. Comparatively few species are cultivated, and these chiefly in botanical collection
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