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angled, longer than the stamens, moderately declinate or oblique, with 

 a slightly subtruncate base. Ovary obtusely ovate, deeply 6-furrowed, 

 ribs roundly convex, ventricose towards the base. On short-grassed 

 hills round ponds in sandy clay near Quicuxe but somewhat rare. 

 Bulbs with leaves found in Maj^ 1854 ; one specimen flowered under 

 cultivation in garden at Loanda, Jan. 1858, after being kept dry till 

 Nov. 1857. No. 3819. 



Baker subsequently described (Gard. Chron., I.e.), as a new species 

 under the same name, a South African plant which flowered at Kew. 

 Durand & Schinz have overlooked the original species founded on the 

 Welwitsch material. 



7. S. platyphylla Baker, I.e. ; Durand & 8chinz, I.e., p. 397. 

 HuiJ.LA. — Bulb large, ovately-spherical, solid, whitish inside. 



Flowers whitish-green. Thicket-grown hills, sparsely grassed, between 

 LopoUo and Catumba. In fl. end of Dec. 1859. No. 3826. 



8. S. congesta Baker, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 391. 

 HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish-green, without smell ; racemes very 



dense. Bulb proportionately very large, ovate-conical. Thicket- 

 grown hillsides in the Lopollo district. In fl. beginning of Jan. 1860. 

 No. 3827. 



9. S. lanceaefolia Baker in Saund. Refug. Bot. t. 182 (1870); in 

 Trans. Linn. See, I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 393. 



HuiiJ.A.— Flowers whitish-yellow-green. Sandy wooded pastures 

 near Mumpulla. End of Oct. 1859. No. 3828. Bulb as big as a 

 walnut, solid, white, leaves subfleshy, with dark purple spots ; flowers 

 purplish-lilac. Sunny hills with scanty thicket near LopoUo. Bulbs 

 found Jan. 1860 ; flowered in the Lisbon garden May 1862. No. 3829. 

 A unique specimen. 



The specimens under the following numbers may belong to this 

 genus, but the material is insufficient for their determination : — 



PuNG(i Andongo. — Bulbous, acaulescent, leaves radical, rosulate, 

 spreading, lanceolate, concave, purple-spotted at the base. Bulb-scales 

 dark-coloured, bulb compact. Habit of Ldchemilki. Plentiful in 

 thickets on the clay throughout the whole prassidium. Without fl. 

 Dec. 1856. No. 3831. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Bulbous with two leaves. On slopes bearing 

 short herbage of the Serra de Alto Queta growing with a species of 

 Hypoxia. Without fl. Feb. 1856. (Two specimens cultivated in the 

 Lisbon garden, 1861.) No. 3834. A unique specimen. 



Puxuo Andoxgo. — A small plant, with a compact, white, fleshy 

 succulent, round bulb, the size of a rather small walnut ; leaf solitary, 

 radical, broadly cordate, with a snbobtuse shortly hooded apex, thick 

 and fleshy, stiff and brittle, at first involute and erect, but when 

 fully developed closely appressed to the soil, i-ather glaucous-green. 

 Scape central, an inch long, sheathed at the base by the leaf, straight, 

 cylindrical, few-flowered. Flowers not well-developed but iu every 

 way resembling those of Drimiu acuminata, but slightly smaller, short- 

 stalked, open, lilac. Rather damp pastures in the edges of woods near 

 the banks of the river Cuanza, near Calemba Is. Bulbs without fl. 

 March 1857. Flowered in the Lumiar garden, but only sparsely. 

 No. 3843. 



Moi^SAMEDES. — Sand-hills above Porto de Ponda. End of August 

 1859. No. 3844. 



