Dear Dietrich, Bravo! I could not agree more with your comment about locality info. As I like to remind fellow collectors, names will change but localities do not. As far as A. navicula, please see this new PBS entry: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Regards, Dylan Hannon 2012/3/28 Dietrich Müller-Doblies <d.mueller-doblies@gmx.de> > Dear Silent Seed, > I appreciate your "general rule not to buy anything until it has a > proper name." Can you imagine to switch to the "general rule not to buy > anything until it has a proper locality where it was collected"? Then > the anything has a scientific value and it is worthwhile to get a good > identification. > As to our Albuca 'Augrabies Hills' the locality is evidently wrong. I > got from South Africa the following information: > "I've had a look at the SANBI database which is unfortunately does not > provide detailed locality data but I can find only 3 specimens of Albuca > polyphylla in the specimen database -- > > Crouch, N. 795 (KZN) > > Strey, R. 7352 (KZN) > > Marchand, P. 10323 (Western Cape > > When using the map facility for Augrabies the search finds only one > Albuca (A. setosa), based on a specimen collected by S Bester in 2005, > housed in PRE. > > I think you can safely say the locality of the specimen is an error!" > > Do you have by chance Albuca navicula which has a proper name? Do you > have a locality for it? It is not seldom offered in the U.S. but nobody > can give me the locality. > Regards > Dietrich > >