54 XI. LiLiACE^. [Chlorojihytum 



top of the scape, forming a whitish petaloid crown. Eather rare, in 

 rock-crevices near springs, and by streams on the priesidium. In fl. 

 24 Dec. 185G. Kather rare in Barranco de Catete ; in fl. Jan. 1857. 

 No. 3771. 



4. C. filipendulum Baker, I.e., p. 260 ; Durand k Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 350. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — A succulent acaulescent herb. Leaves broadly- 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate, with a broad sheathing base, shining above, 

 pale beneath, longitudinally striate on each face ; root-fibres rather 

 fleshy. Scape lateral, scarcely exceeding the larger leaves, cylindrical, 

 with one or two spreading branchlets. Inflorescence racemose, bracts 

 acuminate, subtending 1, 2, or 3 flowers, and hiding their pedicels. 

 Perianth milk-white, segments partly closed valvately before, during 

 and after pollination. Stamens G, rather broad, anthers cordate- 

 lanceolate, attached in the basal sinus, dehiscing longitudinally and 

 introrsely ; style cylindric, almost exceeding the perianth-segments, 

 stigma papillate. Ovary trigonous, 3-Iocular, seeds black, angled. 

 Shady places by streams, Queta mountains ; a single specimen with 

 almost withered flowers found Dec. 1853. No. 3776- 



5. C. lancifolium Welw. ex Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 351. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A herb with a fibrous root, fibres fleshy and 

 thickened. Leaves with long reddish channelled petioles, blade grass- 

 green. Perianth whitish-green. Stamens straight. Stigma slightly 

 capitellate. Shady places by cataracts on the rocks of the presidium. 

 Scarcely in full fl. end of Nov. 185G. No. 3772. Shady woods by 

 streams between Quisonde and Condo. In fr. March 1857. No. 3773. 



6. C. andongense Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 349. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — Flowery white. Thicket-grown rocks on all the 



great clifi"s of the prsesidium. In fl. Dec. 1856, in fr. Jan. 1857. 

 No. 3770. 



7. C. debile Baker, I.e. ; Durand it Schinz, I.e., p. 350. 

 AMLiRiz. — A herb, perennial by a fibrous filipendulous root, leaves 



subfleshy, glaucous-green, scapes ascending, flowers white, subfleshy. 

 Eocks between Ambriz and Quisembo. Nov. 1858. No. 3769. 



8. C. stenopetalum Baker in Journ. Linn. Sec. xv. p. 331 (1876), 

 in Trans. Linn. See, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 352. 



C. hraeteosum Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. See, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — ^A perennial acaulescent herb with a fleshy fibrous rhiz- 

 ome, densely leafy at the base, leaves lanceolate, closely veined, erect, 

 partly plicate. Flowers whitisli -yellow, in a simple raceme, more 

 rarely once to twice branched, almost entirely covered by the bracts. 

 Style straight, stigma truncate not capitellate. Eather rare in little 

 i'j-o^^a-woods near Lopollo. In fl. and unripe fr. end of Dec. 1859. 

 No. 3768. 



Sect. 2. — Dasystachys. 



9. C. pleiostachyum Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 352, 

 Dasystachys pleiostacliya Baker in Trans Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 255. 

 Anthericuvi "i 'pleiostacliytmi Welw. ex Baker, I.e. 



PuNGo Andongo. — A subglaucous herb 3 to 4 ft. high ; bulb large 

 wrinkled, many-fibred, compact, mealy-white inside. Stem straight 



