58 XI. LiLiACE^. [Albuca 



2h ft., straight, radical leaves erect, long-sheathing, channelled, linear- 

 acuminate, a splendid green, longitudinally striate. In the flowering 

 stage the leaves are short (scarcely 3 in. long) subulately convolute 

 and glaucous, afterwards 2 to 3 ft. long, j in. broad, bright green and 

 rather flat. Flowers scarcely scented, segments whitish-green, with a 

 yellowish tinge, with a broad green median longitudinal band, bracts 

 long and narrowly acuminate from a broad sheathing base, white to 

 purplish ; corolla almost bilabiate, the inner uppermost segment 

 helmet-like enclosing 3 stamens closely appressed to its surface ; the 

 other three stamens look downwards but are free, not appressed to 

 the corresponding segments. Stamens all fertile, filaments broadly 

 Avinged at the base, almost covering the ovary. Style columnar, 

 symmetrical, obtusely trigonous, green, gradually narrowing above into 

 an obsoletely trilobulate yellow stigma. Rocky mountain thickets 

 near Quicanda. Sept. 1857. No. 3837. 



4. A. subspicata Baker, I.e., Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 380. 

 HriLLA. — Flowers whitish- green. Lofty rocks of Morro de 



Monino ; rather rare. April 1860. No. 3839. 



5. A. chlorantha Welw. ex Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 378. 



PuNGo AxDONGo. — Herb with a globose bulb, scape leafy at base, 

 erect ; flowers greenish, fleshy. Thickets on the river Cuanza near 

 Quibinda and near Condo. Flowers greenish, tawny yellow when 

 dried. Grassy thickets between Lombe and Quibinda. March 1857. 

 No. 3835. 



6. A. angolensis Welw. Apont. p. 591 (1859) ; Baker in Saund. 

 Eefug. Bot. t. 336 (1872), in Journ. Linn. See. xiii. p. 290, in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 377. 



A. ahyssinica Welw. ex Baker in Gai'd. Chron. 1872, p. 392 (non 

 Dryand.). 



GoLUNGo Alto. — Grassy slopes (Senil) on the heights of AltaQueta 

 but not plentiful. In fl. middle of April 1855. A bulbous herb 5 to 

 7 ft. high with large sulphur-coloured flowers. Coll. Carp. 1035. 



Cazengo. — Dry plains between Dalatanda and the river Caringa, 

 but rather rare, June 1855. 



HuiLLA. — A herb 3 to 5 ft. high ; flowers yellow with broad red 

 bands, erect-spreading, sporadic but plentiful in deeply herb-grown 

 rather damp meadows between LopoUo and the river. Dec. 1859, 

 Feb. 1860. No. 3836. 



The material under the following number.s is insufficient for 

 specific determination : — 



Zenza do Golungo. — A bulbous plant with habit of Sc/Ha or 

 Urginea. Flowers, almost entirely over, white-purplish. Arid hills 

 with scanty shade between Calolo and Calumguembo. Sept. 1857. 

 No. 3755. 



MossAMKDES. — Several bulbs were collected, but lost during the 

 rebellion of the Munani. Plentiful in sandy places by the sea between 

 Mossamedes and Praia da Amelia. With split fr. Aug. 1859. No. 3841. 



PuXGO Andoxgo. — A small bulbous herb with grassy radical leaves. 

 Marsh pastures covered with short herbage at MutoUo at the foot of 

 the Serra de Pedras de Guinga. Without fl., but with fr. and seed 

 Jan. 1857. No. 3842. A bulbous acaulescent plant 2 in. high, with 



