Chlorophytum'] XI. LILIACE.E. 55 



almost covered from the base to the middle with the lanceolate-linear, 

 erecto-patulous, channelled, obtusely keeled, glaucous, long-sheathing 

 leaves, simple or once branched, cylindrical, ending in a simple (or with 

 a small basal branch) spike. Flowers white, very shortly stalked, 

 provided at the base with two alternating white petaloid bracts, 

 with a concave base, the inner cuplike. Perianth-segments equal, a 

 splendid white, apex spotted with green on the outside, conniving into 

 a tube up to maturity. Stamens with very thinly membranous 

 flattened filaments slightly dilated at the base, as long as the perianth, 

 anthers exserted at maturity and soon dropped, lanceolate-linear, sub- 

 obtuse, attached in the emarginate base, introrse. Ovary lobed-trique- 

 trous, ovules numerous obovate, subangled, horizontal. Style filiform, 

 somewhat oblique ; stigma a small head. Very rare in deep-grassed 

 meadows near Sansamanda on the river Cuanza. 30 April 1857. 

 No. 3785. 



10. C. falcatum Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. p. 161 (1892); 

 Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 350. 



Dasystachys falccda Baker, I.e. Anthericum ? falcatum Welw. 

 ex Baker, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — A herb with a moniliform tuber, leaves distichous, long- 

 sheathing, plicate, glaucescent, subfleshy, channelled, obtusely carinate, 

 falcate, lanceolate, acute with an undulate margin, scape central, 2 ft. 

 long, cylindrical, bearing at the top a 2 to 4 in. dense spike. Periantb- 

 segments subequal, thinly membranous, white, apex apiculate, sub- 

 cucullate. Filaments of stamens filiform, rather thick ; anthers 

 sagittate, basifixed. Style declinate, ascending, gradually passing into 

 the thinly papillose stigma. Ovary lobes obtuse, furrowed on the back. 

 Here and there on the high rocks (5500 ft.) of Morro de Lopollo. In 

 fl. Jan. 18G0. 



Bumbo.— Open woods composed of " Unteate " {Copaiba Mopane 

 O. K.) between Bumbo and Bruco. In fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3793. 



11. C. colubrinum Engl., I.e., p. 162; Durand & Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 349. 



Dasystachys coluhriim Baker, I.e., p. 256, t. 35, figs. 5-10. 

 Anthericum ? colubrinmn Welw. ex Baker, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish or streaked with purple. Plentiful, but 

 seen only in the place mentioned, in rocky pastures bearing short 

 herbage at Empalanca at about 5500 ft. high. In fl. and immature fr. 

 Jan. 1860. No. 3784. 



12. C. campanulatum Engl., I.e., p. 161 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 349. 



Dasystachys campanulata Baker, I.e., figs. 1 to 4. Campylandra 

 \ys Welw. ex Baker, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers white. In deeply herb-grown meadows between 

 Lopollo and lake Ivant;11a. In fl. and fr. March 18G0. No. 3783. 



13. C. sp. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An acaulescent herb, with densely fibrous root, 

 and glaucous stiff thick and leathery leaves, longitudinally striate 

 beneath. Sandy places on the river Cuanza, Feb. 1857. Coll. Carp. 

 1047. 



