56 XI. LILIACE^. {Chlw'ophytum 



The fragment included under the following number probably 

 belongs to this tribe : — 



Mossamp:des. — A bulbous herb. More lofty sandy hills near Serra 

 do Monies Negros. In fr. August 1859. No. 3782. 



A fragment with the remains of a branched scape bearing empty 

 loculicidally dehisced capsules. 



Tribe v. ALLIEyE. 



13. TULBAGHIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 798. 

 1. T. sequinoctialis Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 



i. p. 246 (1878) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 355. 



PuxGO Andongo. — Habit recalling that of Lmvnjum. Bulbous ; 

 leaves linear, subglaucescent, erect ; flowers horizontally nodding, 

 spathe 2-leaved, scarious. Corolla white, 6-fid, corona yellow. Rather 

 damp shady places near Banza do Soba Quitage. Single specimen in 

 fl. March 1857. No. 3754. 



14. ALLIUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 802. 



1. A. angolense Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 262 (1878); 

 Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 357. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Bulb narrowly conical, elongated, leaves hollow, 

 subulate, erect, glaucous-green. Scape hollow, a little inflated in the 

 middle, not at the base. Herb-grown places on the banks of the river 

 Quiapose near Terras de Bumba. In fl. May 1855. No. 3764. 



Tribe vi. SCILLE^E. 

 15. DIPCADI Medic. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 809. 



1. D. oxylobum Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. 

 p. 246 (1878); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 375. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Flowers a cinnamon-red, subfleshy and subrigid, 

 outer segments acute. On the slopes bearing short herbage of the 

 huge rocks of the praesidium. In fl. Nov. 1856. No. 3714. 



2. D. Welwitschii Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. p, 400 (1871), 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 376. 



Uropetalmn Welwitschii Baker in Saund. Refug. Bot. t. 16 (1868). 



HuiLLA.— A bulbous herb, with 1 to 2 channelled subglaucous 

 leaves ; scape 1 ft. long, slender, erect, flowers in a secund raceme, 

 nodding, greenish, outer perianth-segments far exceeding the inner. 

 Capsules obtusely triquetrous or rather trigastrous, while ripening at 

 first almost pendulous, then nodding, or spreading horizontally ; when 

 quite ripe more or less erect. The leaves of plants growing in rocky 

 places or on poor soil are very narrow and channelled right to the tip, 

 in rather damp places are broader and almost quite flat from the 

 middle to the apex. Herb-grown thickets near Lopollo, but rarer 

 than the rest of the species ; Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 3715. A herb 

 with the 'habit of a Hyacinth, flowers somewhat nodding, green, 

 capsules subpendulous, obtusely trigastrous, stem one-leaved. Thickets 

 near Huilla, Nov. 1859. No. 3716. 



Very near the last species. 



