62 XI. LiLiACE^. [Scilla 



hooded at the apex. Stamens attached to the base of the segments, 

 subulate, scarcely dilated at the base, purple, exserted owing to the 

 wide spreading of the segments ; anthers violet, pollen yellowish- 

 green. Style filiform, somewhat arcuately deflexed ; stigma subobtuse, 

 papillosely capitellate. Eocky slopes of Tunda Quilombo on the 

 prsesidium. Sandy places near Candumba densely crowded over very 

 wide areas ; without fl. Jan. and March 1857. No. 3832. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — Subsequently observed in fl., beginning of July 

 1857. No. 3833 (represented only by a sketch of a plant in flower). 



4. S. simiarum Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 398. 



5. arenaria Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 390. 



Loan DA. — Leaves glaucous-green prostrate, carinate, spotted with 

 purple at the base, subfleshy. Scape more or less ascending, violet- 

 green, purple-spotted at the base, terete. Flowers green-violet, 

 spreading or even nodding, pedicels petaloid, hyaline-violet, with two 

 shorter hyaline-whitish bracts. Filaments flattened, blue, anthers 

 yellowish-green ; style thick, subterete, a little shorter than the 

 filaments, stigma very shortly papillate, rather flat. Unripe capsules 

 deeply trilobed, lobes with a very obtuse rounded apex. Sandy 

 places flooded in summer very dry in winter near Quicuxe. April 

 1854. No. 3821. 



PuNGO An DONGO.— Flowers hlac. Bulbs much liked by monkeys. 

 Tery plentiful in high rocky meadows on the south of the prsesidium. 

 In fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 8822. A small bulbous herb, all the 

 leaves emerging from the top of the bulb erect-spreading, sub- 

 glaucous-green and pubescent. Pedicels and flowers a beautiful violet. 

 In great quantity, covering wide areas in sandy-wooded short-grassed 

 pastures near Condo and Quitage. March 1857. No. 3823. 



No. 3823 is Baker's S. arcnuria, but I cannot distinguish it from 

 S. simiarum. 



5. S. flaccid ula Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 392. 

 PuNGO Andoxgo. — Bulb ovate, leaves linear-lanceolate, channelled, 



obtusely keeled, herbaceous-green, brightly shining. Raceme lax, 

 pedicels petaloid, violet, very spreading, with distant bracteoles 

 bidentate at the apex. Corolla herbaceous-green, segments rotately 

 spreading, filaments deep purple, exserted ; style arcuately declinate, 

 purplish, papillately stigmatose at the apex. Thickets at the side of 

 rocks near Pedra Pungo, in fr. Nov. 1856. Flowered at the beginning 

 of July in garden at Golungo. No. 3820. 



6. S. laxiflora Baker, I.e., p. 250, non Gard. Chron. ix. p. 668 

 (1891). 



Loan DA. — Bulb ovate-conical, scales dark, upwardly sheathing ; 

 leaves generally 3 or 4, lanceolate, subfleshy, and subrigid, almost 

 orchidaceous, with dark purple spots on the upper face, narrowing 

 gradually into a sheathing channelled petiole densely spotted with black 

 or blood-red, spreading at flowering time, shorter than the scape. 

 Scape cylindrical, a span and more, ascending with a gentle curve or 

 almost suberect, branched at the apex, glabrous. Pedicels spreading 

 widely when in flower, soon almost nodding, deep violet, with two 

 basal bracteoles or one bipartite. Perianth herbaceous-green, segments 

 campanulate below, spreading rotately from the middle, equal, broadly 

 lanceolate, falling together loosely after pollination. Stamens inserted 

 on the perianth-segments high above the base, long exserted ; filaments 

 equal, firm, straight, far exceeding the perianth. Style firm, white. 



