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lachenalia|læʃəˈneɪlɪə|
[mod.L. (N. J. Jacquin 1787, in Nova Acta Helvetica I. 39), f. the name of Werner de la Chenal (1736–1800), Swiss botanist + -ia1.]
A small, bulbous plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Liliaceæ, native to South Africa, and bearing thick, often spotted leaves, and spikes or racemes of tubular or bell-shaped flowers; also called Cape cowslip.
1789Curtis's Bot. Mag. III. 82 Like most of the Cape plants, the Lachenalia requires to be sheltered in the winter. 1900L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. II. 866/1 Lachenalias are Cape bulbs that are easily flowered in a cool greenhouse in early spring or even in winter. 1923Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 786/2 A host of delightful, and to us strange, things—..sombre-hued babianas, and the lachenalias with their weird-spotted foliage. 1961P. White Riders in Chariot viii. 236 A plaster pixie..out on the front lawn, beside the golden cypresses, amongst the lachenalia. 1970Guardian 9 May 9/2 It is more than 200 years since the Cape cowslip was first introduced to England... Lachenalias flower in midwinter. |