Crimcm] viii. amaryllide^. 33 



The leaf is 4J in. broad just above the broadly rounded base. Put 

 doubtfully under C. yuccoijiorum Salisb. by Baker, I.e., p. 90, followed 

 by Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 251. 



4. C. fimbriatulum Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 196 ; Ilandb. 



Amaryllid. p. 90 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 248. 



LoANDA. —Leaves 2 to 5 ft., fleshy, glaucous-green, striated, roundly- 

 grooved, very long acuminate, sometimes preceding, sometimes con- 

 temporaneous with the flowers. Scape 2 ft., 3- to 7-flowered, flowers 

 beautiful white with rose-coloured bands, sweet-smelling. In meadows 

 flooded in the summer-time ; almost throughout the whole district. 

 Museque de Senhor Ricardo S. Rejo, Quicuxe. In fl. March 1854. 

 No. 4018. 



PoxTA d'Ambriz. — Growing with Flagellaria htdica Nov. 1853. 

 No. 4019. 



Scarcely distinguishable from C. scabrum Herb. 



5. C. giganteum Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 169 (1804) ; Baker Handb. 



Amaryllid. p. 91 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



C. vanillodorum Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Bot., I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Bulb when young spherical, then columnar, as big 

 as a child's head, scales dark-coloured ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 2 to 

 3 ft., margin originally undulate near the base, very obtusely carinate, 

 shining, very juicy, and widely spreading. Scape 2 to 4 ft. angular- 

 compressed, subglaucous green, solid. Flowers 3 to 6 in the umbel, 

 tube 4 in. to a span, long slender, limb shaped like a tulip. Well 

 worth cultivating. Flowers smelling very sweetly and strongly like 

 those of Vanilla. Plentiful by the rivers Cuango, Quiapoza, etc. 

 Flowers Oct. to Dec. In boggy places by the river Cuango ; Nov. 1854. 

 Young plants with erect rather thick and rigid smooth leaves shining 

 above darker beneath were collected near the boggy banks of the 

 Quiapoza river near Sange with orchids and a species of Bajihia. 

 No. 4020. Bulbs collected in Angola, and flowered in the Lumiar 

 garden in March 18G2. No. 4020A. 



LiBONGO. — Well developed bulb almost as large as a fist, elongate- 

 conical. Scape compressed at the base, gradually becoming more 

 cylindrical towards the apex. Flowers white or rather snow-white, 

 with a very sweet Vaiulla-like smell. Rather rare on the marshy 

 banks of the river Lifune in the somewhat elevated woods about ten 

 geographical miles from the sea. In fl. at end of Sept. 1858. No. 4021. 



6. C. angolense Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 730 ; Baker 

 Handb. Amaryllid. p, 80 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 246. 



Buj^hane angolensis Baker in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 197. 



HuiLLA. — Between Crinuni and Hannanthus, with almost all the char- 

 acters of Hamantlnis, but has the two-leaved spathe of Crhium. Bulb 

 large ovate-spherical. Leaves appearing after the flowers, bifariously 

 sheathing, curved to prostrate, obtuse, serrulate, glaucous. Flowers 

 dull rose-coloured, fragrant. In thicket-grown r-ather damp pastures 

 near MumpuUa and Lopollo, about 5500 ft. In fl. at end of Oct. 1859 ; 

 in leaf April 1860. No. 4012. 



The following number, consisting only of leaves and the upper 

 portion of the bulb, probably belongs to this species : — 



PuNGO AxDOXGO. — Bulb the size of a fist, ovate or ovately conical,, 

 containing a yellow viscid resinous juice, scales dark-coloured. Leaves 



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