60 XI. LiLiACE^. [Urgi7iea 



depressed and truncate above, seeds horizontal, concave, compressed, 

 closely over-lapping downwards, black, shining. Sporadic in sandy 

 places at the river Bero, near Cavalheiros. In fi. and fr. June 1859. 

 No. 3814. July 1859. Coll. Carp. 1026. 



3. U. chlorantha Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 248; Durand & 

 Schinz, I.e. 



LoANDA. — Bulb ovate, white below a few ash-coloured tunics, fleshy, 

 with long fibres at the base. Leaves sheathing, equal in length to the 

 scape, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, subflaccid, glaucous-green, striate, 

 deeply channelled, very obtusely carinate, subcoriaceous, with dark 

 green spots at the base. Scape 3 to 4i ft., central, enveloped at 

 the base by the leaf-sheaths, raceme to f ft., ending in a coma of 

 greenish empty bracts. Pedicels bibracteate, lower ones sometimes 

 unibracteate, outer bract acuminate from a broad half -sheathing base 

 longer than the pedicel, the second inner or lateral, shorter, linear or 

 more rarely very shortly ovate-acuminate, both greenish. In fruit the 

 pedicels become much longer than the bracts. Perianth-segments 

 herbaceous-green with a membranous-white edge, oblong, subequal, 

 hooked at the tip, the outer 5-nerved, the inner 3-nerved, spreading- 

 reflexed at maturity Stamens equal, suberect, white, gradually 

 acuminate from a broadly winged base. Pollen yellowish- white ; style 

 and stigma whitish. Style straight, rather thick, obscurely trigonous, 

 gradually becoming clavate towards the apex, stigma obtuse, finely 

 papillose. Capsule trilobed almost to the axis, loculi turgid, oblong- 

 ellipsoid, seeds horizontally flattened in 2 series. In sandy herbaceous 

 shortly -grassed places, and among Mandioca plantations near Forte de 

 Penedo behind Loanda, with fl. and unripe fr. end of Nov. 1857. 

 Thicket-grown pastures near Penedo. In fl. and fr. end of Dec. 1857. 

 No. 3810. Coll. Carp. 1028. Sandy meadows in the littoral region 

 Dec. 1858. Coll. Carp. 1030. Praia de Concei§ao near Loanda, Dec. 

 1858. Coll. Carp. 1031. 



Golungo Alto. — An autumnal plant with greenish flowers. On 

 once cultivated slopes between Sange and Bango. In fl. April 1855. 

 No. 3812. Bango, May 1856. Coll. Carp. 1033. 



Ambaca. — 1 to 2 ft., with the habit of Ornithngalum ; flowers 

 greenish. In fr. Oct. 1856. Coll. Carp. 1032. 



4. TJ. cepaefolia Welw. ms. in Herb. 



Ornithogalimi cepcefolium Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



Pv,e.sembles the last species in habit. Separated from Ornitho- 

 galum by the slightly perigynous stamens and flattened seeds with 

 embryo nearly equal in length to the endosperm. 



HuiLLA. — 1 to 2 ft. high ; stem scape-like sheathed by the leaves to 

 the middle, leaves erect, green, resembling those of Alliuin Cepu, having 

 the margins inrolled so that the leaf appears hollow ; flowers whitish- 

 green, capsules obtusely trigastrous. Here and there in sunny herb- 

 grown places on banks of streams near the river Monino and Lopollo, 

 Dec. 1869. No. 3816. A bulbous herb, stem leafy at the base, scape 

 elongated, flowers not seen, Lopollo, Feb. 1860. Coll. Carp. 1027. 



The following numbers, which are represented by material in- 

 sufficient for certain determniation, should probably be inckided 

 in this species : — 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — Flowers greenish. Sandy wooded places near 



