44 XI. LiLiACE^. l^N'otosceptrum 



with tuberous root, tuber conical, descending or vertical, bearing 

 on all sides thick fleshy fibres 1 to H ft. long. Leaves 9 ft. long, 

 linear, sheathing at the base, with a winged keel, long-acuminate, 

 young ones 3 ft. erect, full grown on the flowering-plant, hanging limply 

 or arcuately spreading. Scape radical, central, nearly 8 ft. high, almost 

 an inch thick, juicy and fleshy, cylindrical, erect, naked, bracteate a 

 little below the spike, bracts white scarious with a broad base and 

 elongated linear very acuminate apex, the upper ones short. Flowers 

 in a very dense spike, with a very short stalk, greenish in bud, spike 

 cylindrico-conical, apex subobtuse. Open flowers probably reddish 

 and nodding, but only buds and berries were seen. Ovary in the bud 

 ovate-spherical, trigonous, style filiform with a slightly thickened 

 stigmatic apex. In the bud condition the spikes are eaten like 

 Asparagus by the blacks. Rocky thickets with deep grass and deep- 

 grassed marshy places on the prtesidium between Luxillo and Catete, 

 May 1857. Native name Tongo. Nos. 3733, 3734. Radical leaf 

 9 ft., stem 12 ft. high. In leaf Luxillo, Jan. 1857. No. 3735. 



2. N. benguellense Benth., I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



Kniphojia bengueUetisis Welw. ex Baker, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — A fine herb 3 to 5 ft. high, giving forth a tuft of leaves 

 from a thick densely fibrous rhizome ; from the centre rises an erect 

 scape which scarcely overtops the leaves. Leaves lanceolate-linear, 

 very long-acuminate, channelled, keeled, subrigid, erecto-patent. 

 Flowers bright yellow, bract ovate, white, membranous-scarious. 

 Perianth subsessile, campanulately expanded almost from the base, 

 lobes ovate spreading. Stamens G exserted, alternate ones a little 

 shorter, filaments compressed white, anthers yellow. Ovary 3-locular. 

 Style terminal, filiform, gradually passing into an obsoletely papillose 

 stigma, at first bent, then erect. Capsule almost globose, very shortly 

 stalked, dull yellowish, cartilaginous, shiny. Seeds in two series, 

 horizontal, angular, testa dull-coloured. Marshes by streams growing 

 witb Aroide.s hastatiou and Epilohium. Flowers Dec, Jan. In fl. and 

 fr. Jan. 1860. No. 3736. Plentiful in marshy places on islands near 

 LopoUo, Jan. 1860. Coll. Carp. 8. 



4. ALOE L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. C4en. PI. iii. p. 776. 



1. A. angolensis Baker in Tran.s. Linn. See. ser. 2. i. p. 263 

 {1878), in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. p. 162; Durand & Schinz, 

 Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 303. 



Bakra do Bengo. — Subacaulescent but a fine plant, and the most 

 robust of all the species except the arborescent. Leaves rosulate, sub- 

 erect, 2 ft. long, lanceolate, not spotted beneath, with a copious 

 yellowish resin, very juicy and fleshy, glaucous ; apex subobtuse, 

 toothed and crested, twisted to the left ; margin distantly aculeate 

 (not sinuate-aculeate) ; base amplexicaul ; back not punctate nor 

 carinate, marked with a blunt line not everywhere to be seen and 

 never well-developed. Flowers sulphur-yellow, shortly pedicelled, 

 pendulous, in pyramidal racemes. Scape lateral, li ft. long, as thick 

 as a finger, straight, shining green, with a reddish bloom, compressed 

 at the base, and distantly aculeate on the two edges, naked, gradually 

 passing above into a cylindrical form, longitudinally striate, sometimes 

 simple, sometimes with 1 to 3 branches, branches spreading, racemose. 

 Bracts below the racemes broadly ovate-acuminate, among the flowers 

 elongate-ovate, scarious, white, with dark lines, erect, margin white, 

 membranous. Mutollo, 29 Julv 1858. No. 3728. 



