Albuca] XI. LILIACE/E. 59- 



linear radical leaves ; seeds flattened. Mutollo, Jan. 1857. Coll. 

 Carp. 104G. 



PuNGO Andcjn'go. — Bulb large, tunicate, leaves linear, a foot long, 

 channelled, suberect, scape branched. With scape and broken fruits, 

 found in Tunda Quilombe on the praBsidium Oct. 1850, subsequently 

 bearing buds but no flowers in the garden at Golungo. No. 3845. 



HuiLLA. — A bulbous herb with no leaves and a fruit-bearing almost 

 dead scape. End of Jan. 1860. No. 1049. 



17. URGINEA Steinh. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 810. 

 Sect. 1. — Squilla. 



1 . U. psilostachya Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 

 i. p. 247 (1878); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 383. 



Cazengo. — Bulb ovate-conical, as big as a fist and sometimes 

 larger, semi-epigpeal, scales broadly ovate of web-like filaments as in 

 U. maritiiiia, concave, laxly imbricate, herbaceous-green. A number of 

 bulbs, 12 to 15, old and young, are generally crowded together in small 

 heaps. Leaves only properly developed after fruit is ripe, erect (very 

 like those of U. maritirna), 1 to H ft., broadly linear, shortly acuminate,, 

 ■with a subulate mucro, succulent-coriaceous, rather rigid, bright green 

 above, faintly transversely wrinkled, obtusely carinate below. Scape 



3 to 4 ft., cylindrical, smooth, green, solid, springing with a tuft of 

 leaves from the centre of the bulb, raceme 2 spans and longer, some- 

 times almost 2 ft. Bracts violet, a little way from the pedicel, 

 with a saccate spur. Perianth -segments recurved, white, with a her- 

 baceous-green basal nerve. Stamens thin or flattened subulate, anthers 

 pale yellowish, cordate-oblong. Ovary conical, obscurely G-angular, 

 yellowish-green, ovules numerous horizontal. Style thick, triquetrous, 

 whitish ; stigma obtusely trigonous, after pollination trifoliolate or 

 trilobed. Dry thickets in sandy soil on the right of the river Luinha,. 

 bulbs and leaves Dec. 1854. Fl. August 1855. No. 3807. 



PuNGo Andongo. — Leaves bifarious, arcuately spreading, thick, 

 glaucous subobtuse. A bulb with leaves near Candumba March 1857,. 

 which afterwards flowered sparsely in Welwitsch's Golungo garden 



4 August, 1857. A unique specimen. No. 3808. 



Sect. 2. — Albucopsis. 



2. U. comosa Welw. ex Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 38L 

 Huilla. — A bulbous herb, with lorate broadly linear channelled 



acuminate leaves, and a glaucous scape 3 to 4 ft. long with a terminal 

 raceme 1 to H ft., scape cylindrical, axis of raceme channelled, poly- 

 gonous. Flowers numerous, greenish, including the anthers. Filaments 

 all flattened, gradually decreasing upwards from a broad base. Thicket- 

 groAvn and wooded rather damp pastures on the Huilla plain between 

 Lopollo and Monino. In fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 3815. 

 Wooded thicket-grown hills near Lopollo, Nov. 1859. Coll. Cauf. 82. 

 Mossamedes. — Bulb very large, ovate, leaves 2 to 3 ft. long, Ij in. 

 broad at the base, long-sheathing, appearing with the flowers. Scape 



5 to 6 ft., ^ to 1 in. thick at the base. Raceme 1 to li ft., ending in a 

 dense conspicuous coma of sterile bracts. Perianth-segments oblong- 

 linear, with an obtuse slightly hooded apex ; stamens shorter, erect, 

 equal. Ovary obtusely trigonous, with truncate apex ; style firm white 

 triquetrous, scarcely exceeding the stamens and crowned with an 

 obtuse slightly papillose stigma. Capsule with 3 ventricose lobes^ 



