Schizohasis] xi. liliace/E. 49 



reddish bracts. Perianth G-partite to the base, ovate-campanulate, 

 narrowing and equal at the mouth, greenish-white, narrowing 

 pyramidally after flowering ; stamens (3, included, equal, inserted on the 

 base of the segments ; filaments white, flattened, somewhat dilated at 

 the base ; anthers large, ovate, introrse, dorsifixed, dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally. Ovary oblong, triquetrous, bearing a yellow linear-oblong 

 gland between the angles. Style rather long, central, stigma truncate. 

 Plentiful in rocky places near springs on the prsesidium, growing with 

 Orchids and Asclepiads, especially round Catete and Luxillo. In leaf 

 and fr. Nov. 1857. Nos. 3866, 3867. Bulbs with stems were not 

 infrequently found from Oct. to May. Welwitsch saw flowers only in 

 specimens cultivated in Golungo Alto in August 1857. 



9. ERIOSPERMUM Jacq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 p. 786. 



1. E. stenophyllum Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. See. ser. 2. 

 i. p. 261 (1878); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 341. 



PuNGd Andongo. — Tuber fairly large, depressed, fibrous at the lower 

 margin, flesh not blood-red as in the remaining species. Perianth sul- 

 phur-coloured, connivent, reddish at the hooded apex. Sandy thicket- 

 grown meadows on the banks of the Cuanza near Candumba, where 

 tubers with leaves were picked in March 1857. Flowered in Welwitsch's 

 Loanda garden 2'J Nov. 1858, and middle of April 1859. No. 3758. 



2. E. andongense Welw. ex Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, l.c.^ 

 p. 339. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An acaulescent herb with a large depressed 

 hemispherical or hemispherico-conical tuber, flattened beneath, with 

 fibril- bearing margin, and blood-rose-red flesh, giving off after the 

 flowers have withered a solitary oblong or elliptical, fleshy-leathery very 

 stiff leaf narrowing into a petiole, and suberect or obliquely spreading. 

 Scape 1 to 2 spans or a foot, with a short convolute leaf -like bract, 

 cylindrical, green, polished, generally twisted, passing into a raceme 

 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers with elongated peduncles bracteate at the base, 

 sulphur-yellow. Perianth 6-partite, at first urceolate-campanulate, 

 open when mature, soon closing again, lobes more or less obovate- 

 spathulate, sulphur-yellow with a median purple nerve, apex inflexed, 

 hooded, subequal both in length and breadth ; stamens 6 on the base 

 of the segments and shorter than them, those opposite the outer seg- 

 ments the shorter. Anthers oblong-cordate, emarginate, erect, ripening 

 successively. Ovary ovate-trigonous, style obsoletely trigonous, straight; 

 stigma very minutely muriculate. Mature fruit not seen. Plentiful 

 in thickets and open woods near Caghuy and elsewhere round the 

 prassidium. Tuber and leaves found in Nov. 1856 ; also plentiful in 

 sandy-clayey thickets between the streams Casalale and Miege, in leaf 

 Dec. 1850. Flowers examined at the end of Nov. 1867 in own garden 

 at Loanda. No. 3757. 



For information as to the flowers we depend entirely upon Wel- 

 witsch's description given above ; there are none on the herbarium 

 specimens, and he himself says, ''I have looked in vain for the 

 flowering scape in the herbarium." 



3. E. flexuosum Welw. ex Baker, I.e., ; Durand & Schinz, I.e.,. 

 p. 340. 



HuiLL.\. — Plentiful in rather damp pastures between Humpata and 

 Lopcllo. Beginning of Nov. 1859. No. 3760. 



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