50 XI. LiLiACE^. [Eriospermwn 



4. E. paludosum Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



PuNCiO Andongo. — A herb with compact tuber, bearing long fibres, 

 with a blood-red-purple flesh ; leaves leathery, glaucous-green, appressed 

 to the earth ; scape a span high, flowers yellow. Plentiful in marshy 

 places from Candumba and Mutollo to Quisonde. In fl. Jan. and 

 March 1857. No. 3761. 



5. E. ophioglossoides Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 2G2 ; Durand & 

 Schinz, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers a washed-out yellow, with dull puq^le nerves, 

 pedicels rather stiff. Leaves somewhat fleshy glaucous-green. B,ather 

 damp pastures with short herbage ; LopoUo, in one place only but 

 plentiful there. In fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. No. 3759. Rather damp 

 pastures near Humpata and Lopollo. Beginning of Dec. 1859. No. 3763. 



Material insufticient for specific determination. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — Tuber a violet-purple inside. Plentiful in sandy 

 pastures near Quitage. In leaf end of March 1857, No. 3762. 



10. ACROSPIRA Welw. ex Baker; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 787. 



1. A. asphodeloides Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. 8oc. ser. 2. 

 i. p. 255 (1878); Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 341. 



PuNGO Andoncu). — A genus near A)ithericum, but differing in its 

 divided stem, filaments broadly dilated at the base, anthers spirally 

 rolled at the apex, triquetrous-lobed ovary, etc. A herb with a tuber- 

 ous root, tubers broadly depressed as big as a fist, arranged in a monili- 

 form series ; stem 6 to 8 or even 9 ft., orange, hard and woody, erect ; 

 leaves 3 to 4 radical, erect, 2 to 4 ft. long, scarcely 1 in. broad, linear to 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate, channelled, distichously sheathing at the 

 base, and folded for some distance upwards, somewhat acutely carinate, 

 subglaucous and subrigid. Stem clothed to the base of the inflores- 

 cence with dry reduced sheath-like leaves. Inflorescence pyrami- 

 -dately racemose, 1 to 1^ ft. long, once or twice branched at the base. 

 Flowers in small somewhat remote racemes of 2 to 5 ; bracts scarious, 

 red-nerved. Perianth petaloid, lobes subfleshy, white with a purple 

 keel, the outer a little broader, all of equal length, erect to spreading 

 at flowering time. Stamens a little shorter than the perianth, anthers 

 linear-lanceolate erect, with sagittate base, bilocular, loculi polliniferous 

 at the apex, which becomes bent and finally spirally rolled, filled in 

 the middle and below with a waxy viscid non-fertile substance. Ovary 

 sessile, ovate-oblong, 3-locular. Style filiform, deflexed-ascending, 

 slightly thickened towards the apex, ending in a small thick brush-like 

 stigmatic head. Plentiful on the higher rocks of the praisidium, at 

 Pedra Songue and at the great cataract of the river Cuanza near 

 Condo. In fl. March and April 1857. Nos. 3777, 3778, 3779. 



11. ANTHERICUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 778. 

 1. A. andongense Baker in Trans. Linn, See. ser. 2. i. p. 257 



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



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial herb, with a fibro-tuberous root, 

 erect, acaulescent. Leaves subrigid and somewhat fleshy. Flowers 

 white. Marshes near Candumba on the river Cuanza, Jan. 1857. 

 No. 3797- Sandy damp woods between Luxillo and Cazella. In fl. 

 and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3798. 



