Anthericuni] xi. liliace.e. 51 



2. A. dissitiflorum Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Sc-hinz, I.e., p. 343. 

 PuNGO AxDox(ic). — A tuberous herb, tubers with long fibres which 



are again tuberously swollen. Flowers white. Plentiful in damp 

 pastures near Condo. March 1857. No. 3781. 



Scarcely more than a dwarf variety of .1. andonf/ense Baker. 



3. A. tenellum Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 256 ; Dui-and & Schinz, 

 I.e., p. 347. 



HuiIjLA. — Sometimes growing singly, sometimes rather widely 

 csespitose. Flowers whitish. Rather damp somewhat sandy thinly 

 thicket-grown pastures near the base of Morro de Monino and on the 

 more lofty heights of Morro de Lopollo. With fl. and unripe fr. Dec. 

 1859. No. 3796. 



4. A. calyptrocarpum Baker, I.e., p. 258 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 342. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish with broad dull purple nerves, perianth 

 marcescent adhering to the mature capsule, its apex closely twisted 

 into a style-like process, finally split round the base of the ripe capsule 

 by the spreading valves and separating like a calyptra. Seeds black, 

 minute, flattened, quadrate or triangular. Rocky pastures which are 

 flooded in the rainy season between Mumpulla and Lopollo. Almost 

 past flowering, end of Dec. 1859. No. 3786. 



5. A. ustulatum Welv?. ex Baker, I.e.; Durand & Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 348. 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — Boggy sunny wooded places at Mutollo. With 

 a few fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 3800. 



HuiLLA.— Pastures flooded in the rainy season, now dry. In fl. and 

 fr. April 18G0. No. 3801. 



6. A. benguellense Baker, I.e., p. 257 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 342. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish streaked with dull purple : rather 

 fugacious. Plentiful in open woods and shady pastures round Lopollo 

 and Humpata. In fl. and fr. Jan 1860. No. 3794. 



7. A. limosum Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 345. 

 Bakka do Bexgo. — A herb a foot high, with tuberous fibrous root, 



fibres somewhat fleshy. Leaves subrigid, lanceolate-linear with long 

 distichous sheaths, falcate, green, deeply channelled, acutely keeled, 

 longitudinally striate especially beneath, long-acuminate, exceeding 

 the scape. Scape sharply two-edged, branched at the top. Perianth 

 spreading, white ; filaments flattened, anthers linear-cordate basifixed, 

 loculi broad with a narrow marginal dehiscence, pollen greenish-yellow. 

 Ovary oblong very obtusely trigonous. Style elongated, slightly 

 curved, white, filiform ; stigma with a small papillose head. Pedicels 

 jointed at J their length. Flowers horizontally nodding. Very rare 

 in dried-up mud after the floods, from Quicuxe on the way to Cacuaco. 

 In fl. beginning of Aug., without fl. Sept. 1858. No. 3803. Without 

 fl. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 3804. 



8. A. orehideum Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 258 ; Durand & Scliinz, 

 I.e., p. 346. 



HuiLLA. — A herb with the habit of an orchid, growing suIj- 

 Cffispitosely, a foot high, erect, root of fascicled fibres, filipendulous. 

 Flowers whitish. Somewhat rare in rather damp grassy places at the 

 base of Serra de Monino. In fl. Jan. 1860. No. 3806. 



