Urgiiiea] xi. liliace.*:. 61 



Cazella between Pungo Andongo and Zamba. Oct. 1856. No. 3817. 

 Thicket-grown meadows near Sansamanda. March 1857. No. 3818- 



LoANDA. — Flowers greenish-white. Pastures near Penedo. Oct. 

 1857. Coll. Carp. 1029. 



Material insufficient for specific determination. 



Cazengo.— End of Sept. 1855. Coll. Cari'. 1024. A single speci- 

 men with unripe fruit considered by Welwitsch to be a new species. 



Puxcio Andongo. — A bulbous herb with erect scape, 3 ft. long. 

 Seeds flattened as in Vrghiea. Plentiful in damp meadows of thin 

 grass near Muta Lucala. With ripe fr. ; beginning of March 1857. 

 No. 3809. 



Pungo Andongo. — Scape 2h ft. Flowers greenish. Slopes of 

 Serra de Pedras de Guinga. One specimen in 11. at the beginning of 

 Jan. 1857. No. 3811- 



LoAND.A.. — Resembles Ornithogalum 2>yre.)iaicum. Represa do Ricardo. 

 Feb. 1854. Coll. Carp. 1034. ' 



MosSAMEDKS. — A bulbous plant, with scape 9 to 12 spans high and 

 greenish flowers. Cavalheiros July 1859. Coll. Carp. 1025. 



Perhaps U. chlorantha Welw., though much farther south than the 

 present records for that species. 



Zenza do Golungo. — Bulb ovate, large. Capsules winged trique- 

 trous ; seeds vertical, piano-compressed, black. Poor pastures between 

 Calanguculo and Quicanda. In fr. Sept. 1857. No. 3813. 



Pungo Andongo. — Scantily grassed rocks of Tunda Quilombo. 

 Without fl. Nov. 185G. No. 3824^ 



18. SCILLA L.; Benth & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 814. 

 Subgen. 1. — Euscilla. 



1. S. rigidifolia Kth. Euum. iv. p. 33U (1843). 



S. hispidula Baker in Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 248 (1878); 

 Durand & Schinz, C'onsp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 392. 



HuiLLA. — Bulbs large, solid, densely csespitosely gregarious, 

 yellowish, leaves rigid erect ; flowers white. Sunny thicket-grown 

 places on sandy-clayey soil near Banza de LopoUo. In fl. and fr. 

 Nov. 1859. No. 3830. 



Baker places this next to his S. firmifuJia in his arrangement of the 

 genus (Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 237), but it is inseparable from the 

 somewhat polymorphic S. rigid/folia Kth. 



Subgen. 2. — Ledebouria. 



2. S. benguellensis Baker, I.e., p. 249 ; Durand t Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 391. 



HuiLLA. — Bulb large for the size of the plant ; a social plant. Sunny 

 rather sandy pastures near Lopollo. In fl. Nov. 1859. No. 3825. 



3. S. polyphylla Baker, I.e. ; Durand k Schinz, I.e., p. 397. 

 Pungo Andongo.— A small bulbous herb, with habit of .S'. auiiim- 



rialis L., several radical, erect, linear, channelled, subobtuse or shortly 

 acuminate, herbaceous-green leaves appearing with the flowers, scape 

 cylindrical, subfleshy, erect, ending in a lax raceme. Pedicels arcuately 

 spreading, violet and petaloid. Perianth campanulate, segments spread- 

 ing rotately from the middle, deep violet-purple, ventricose at the base, 



