Dipcadi] xi. liliace.e. 57 



3. D. lateritium Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 247 ; 

 Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 374. 



HriLLA. — Leaves a foot long, erecto-falcate, linear, long-acuminate, 

 channelled, glaucous-green, with very long sheaths. Flowers a fine 

 brick-red. On the rocky heights of Morro de Monino in the LopoUo 

 district. In fl. and unripe fr. March 18G0. No, 3717. 



4. D. comosum Welw. ex Baker, I.e., t. 34, figs. 1 to 3 ; Durand 

 & Schinz. I.e. 



HriLLA. — Bulb depressed hemispherical, scales bright crimson, with 

 bulbils at the base, and bearing strong white fibrils in the centre ; 

 scape 3 to 4 ft., more rarely 5 ft., cylindrical, firm, raceme 1| to 2 ft 

 long, with an elongated comose apex, 30- to 40-flowered. Flowers the 

 colour of D. scroti nmn, nodding up to maturity ; outer perianth -seg- 

 ments in the lower flowers a little longer than the inner, in the upper 

 flowers much longer, elongate subulate ; inner segments of the upper- 

 most flowers aborted. Sandy rather drv thickets between Lopollo and 

 Catumba. In fl. 15 April 1860. No. 3732. 



16. ALBUCA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 809. 

 Sect. 1. — Falconera. 



1. A. myogaloides Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 

 i. p. 250 (1878) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 379. 



Httilla. — Bulb ovate as big as a hen's egg, scales pale reddish- 

 yellow ; leaves lanceolate with a broader sheathing base, channelled, 

 very long-acuminate, subglaucous green somewhat flaccid at flowering- 

 time. Scape cylindrical ending in a few-flowered raceme. Outer 

 perianth-segments spreading, inner erect with a hooked tip, all white 

 with a median green band. Outer stamens flat sterile,* inner with a 

 broad winged base. Style triangular, deeply trisulcate, stigma trigonous, 

 finely papillose. Bulb a tawny yellow inside. Rocky heights of Morro 

 de Monino, April ISiiO. No. 3840. 



2. A. monophylla Baker, I.e., p. 251 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 

 A . juncifolia Welw. ex Baker, I.e. (non Baker). 



PuNGo Andoxgo. — A fleshy succulent bulb, white inside and out. 

 Leaf solitary, sheathing, deeply channelled at the base, glaucous like 

 the scape, from middle to apex cylindrical subulate. Scape cylindrical, 

 about half as long as the leaf. Flowers yellow, somewhat nodding. 

 Inner perianth-segments erect, a little shorter than the outer, thickened 

 and hooked at the apex. Filaments all fertile, broadly winged at the 

 base. Style angled, gradually passing into a finely papillose stigma. 

 Rather rare on the rocky heights of the presidium, at Pedras de 

 Cabondo. In fl. 17 April 1857 (one specimen only). Rocks of Cabondo, 

 beginning of June 1857. No. 3838. 



Sect. 2. — Pallastema. 



3. A. galeata Welw. ex Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 378. 

 Zenza do Golungo. — A herb with an ovate-conical bulb, root- 

 fibres numerous long, scales dark-coloured, marcescent. Scape H to 



* This is at any rate not usual ; the outer stamens have smaller anthers, 

 as Baker states, but that these are poUiniferous is shown by examination 

 of the specimen. 



