THE GENUS LACHENALIA. By Graham Duncan. A Botanical Magazine Monograph.

2012 1st edition. 4to (193 x 253mm). Ppxvi,479. Colour botanical paintings, colour photographs throughout, location maps, bibliography. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Botanical watercolours by Winsome Barker, Fay Anderson, Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst, Claire Linder Smith, Elbe Joubert, Vicki Thomas, Marieta Visagie, Rhona Collett. Line drawings by Vicki Thomas, scientific editor, Trevor Edwards, general editor, Martyn Rix. This is a survey and description of the wild species of Cape Hyacinth, Lachenalia spp. This book "is the first complete, illustrated systematic monograph of this horticulturally important and botanically diverse group of 133 species, including ten species and one subspecies that are new to science". Chapters include: New taxa published in this work; List of paintings; History; Cultivation and propagation, pests and diseases; Lachenalias and the environment, conservation, phytogeography, ecology, habitat and adaptive strategies, phenology; Lachenalia biology, morphology, pollination biology, seed dispersal, karyology; Phylogeny; Taxonomic treatment, insufficiently known names, excluded taxa.