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2. A. zebrina Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. I.e., p. 264, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 167; Diirand & Schinz, I.e., p. 314. 



Barka do Bengo. — Stem short, about ^ ft., leafy from the base. 

 Leaves rosulate, spreading horizontally, finally recurved, with a broad 

 sheathing base, lanceolate, long-acuminate, hard and thickly fleshy, 

 convex beneath, obtusely channelled above, glaucescent, marked on 

 both sides with white areas which are parallelogram-shaped with 

 broken ends, and arranged in irregular longitudinal series, margin with 

 sharp red teeth, spreading at right angles in the middle of the leaf, 

 the lower spreading upwards the upper downwards. Flowers brick- 

 red, horizontally spreading, soon nodding. Plentiful on dry hills from 

 Quicuxe towards Cacuaco, very social. July 1854. No. 3721. Very 

 plentiful in clayey sandv thickets behind Loanda round Quicuxe. In 

 fl. Jan., Feb., Mar. No. 3720. 



IcdLO E Ben<;o. — Stems caespitose, i to § ft. long, thick, erect, clothed 

 to the base by the leaf -sheaths. Leaves spotted with greenish- and 

 whitish-purple, spots on upper face .short and broad, on lower face 

 more linear, arranged in rows, reduced at the white sheaths to narrow 

 dull purple lines ; margin sinuately-aculeate, spines stifl', dull-red. 

 Scape 3 to 4 ft., shining red, very smooth, subglaucous and pruinose, 

 branched at the top, flowers in panicled racemes. l)rick-red, yellowish 

 inside with a globose-ventricose base. Plentiful in very dry places 

 from Funda to Calumguembo. Aug. to Dec, Sept. 18r>7. No. 3719. 



LiBONGO. — Stems H to 2 in. in diameter, ascending, densely clothed 

 with recurved withered leaves ; leaf-teeth orange-red. Scape nearly 



3 ft. central, smooth, dull red, glaucescent, branched. Flowers and 

 the whole habit of the plant almost as in A.pkta, but flowers a little 

 smaller and tending rather to a brick-orange-red. No. 3723. 



3. A. platyphylla Baker in Ti-an.?. Linn. Soc, I.e., in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, I.e. ; Dui^and & Schinz, I.e., p. 310. 



PuNGO Andongo.— A succulent herb, stem 1 to Ih ft. long, clothed 

 with a rosette of ovate-lanceolate, very thick leaves, scape lateral, 3 to 



4 ft., erect, branched in the middle, branches spreading, the central 

 axis longer, livid purple with a reddish bloom. Flowers a livid-copper- 

 purple, horizontally spreading, finally nodding slightly, tube spherically 

 inflated at the base. Leaves with a broad shortly sheathing base, 

 ovate-lanceolate in the young plant, broadly lanceolate in flowering 

 specimens, slightly bent downwards, glaucous-green, marked on the 

 upper face with white oblong spots, paler and not spotted beneath. 

 In fl. 30 April 1857. Very plentiful in dry thickets and in marshy 

 meadows on banks of the river Caranca, near Sansamanda. No. 3722. 



Loanda. — Littoral region. No. 3725. 



4. A. palmiformis Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 263, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 173 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



Huilla. — Shrubby, stem simple at the base, erect, 3 to 5 ft., sparsely 

 branched above, branches ascending, with a crowded apical crown of 

 leaves. Leaves glaucous-green, thick, succulent, rigid, brittle, lanceo- 

 late from an amplexicaul base, long-acuminate, margin sinuately 

 serrate, teeth ending in a hard red mucro. Perianth cylindrical, 

 straight, lobes regular, inner a little broader, erecto-spreading, obtuse, 

 non-appendiculate ; stamens straight. Flowers nodding, coralline- 

 scarlet, buds greenish at the tip, yellowish inside at flowering-time, 

 lobes banded with red. One of the loveliest species, which, when not 

 in flower, resembles a pretty little palm, as the leaves are crowded 



