64: XI. LiLiACE^. [Ornhhogalimi 



19. ORNITHOGALTJM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 p. 815. 



Sect. 1. — Beryllis. 



1. 0. benguellense Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 248 

 (1878) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 400. 



HuiLLA. — A bulbous herb with purplish-white flowers. Perianth 

 after maturity spirally twisting at the apex then falling like a calyptra. 

 Ovules very few in the loculus. Near Lopollo Nov. 1859. Sandy 

 thickets round Lopollo. In fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. No. 3766. 



The following numbers may belong to the genus, but in 

 absence of flowers (and leaves) it is impossible to determine 

 more exactly : — 



PuNCio Andongo. — A herb with a solid bulb white, densely fleshy 

 and viscid inside. Leaves radical and, judging from their remains, 

 linear. Remnants of flowers yellowish. In thickets with short 

 herbage near Candumba, where it was found growing gregariously but 

 with fl. and fr. already past. End of Jan. 1857. No. 3767. 



PuNGO AxDoNGo. — A herb with a solid bulb whitish inside and 

 outside, with close fleshy scales, leaf radical, solitary, filiform, scape a 

 foot long, erect, filiform, flowers in a long raceme. Rather rare on the 

 tops of the rocks of Pedra Puugo. A few fruiting specimens Dec. 1857. 

 No. 3766. 



20. IPHIGENIA Kunth ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii., 

 p. 824. 



1. I. guineensis Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 451 (1879) ; 

 Durand & Schinz, Consp. PI. Afr. v. p. 415. 



Melanthiimi guineense Welw. ex Baker, I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Leaves linear-subulate deeply channelled up to 

 the top, glaucous-green, subrigid. Perianth-segments a livid green 

 outside, rose-violet within, stellately spread, deciduous. Stony pastures 

 with short grass among the rocks of the presidium, plentiful but not 

 found in many places. In fl. 29 Oct. 1856. No. 1625. 



HuiLLA. — A slender herb a span long, bulb the size of a hazel-nut, 

 of a compact white flesh inside, clothed with a few dark scales. Stem 

 erect, angular, leafy, scarcely branched. Leaves alternate, the lower 

 lanceolate-linear, the upper linear, channelled-triquetrous, long-acu- 

 minate, sheathing at the base, sheaths adhering for some distance to 

 the stem. Perianth herbaceous-green beneath, greenish-purple above, 

 segments quite distinct, sessile, linear-lanceolate with a somewhat 

 narrowed base, stellately expanded, deciduous ; stamens much shorter 

 at the very base of the segments, filaments cylindric, rather thick, and 

 stiff, purplish, erect-spreading ; anthers extrorse ; pollen deep yellow, 

 plentiful. Ovary sessile obovate-globose, slightly triangular, many- 

 ovuled ; stigmas 3 subcylindric, shorter than the ovary, recurving, 

 stigmatose on the inside, persistent adhering to the dehiscing valves. 

 Capsule obovate-cylindric, very bluntly 3-angled, loculicidal. Seeds in 

 two axile series in each loculus, angled-subglobose, dull-red ; albumen 

 plentiful, hard, fleshy or rather cartilaginous, including the central 

 embryo. Rather rare in somewhat damp meadows on lake Ivantala ; 

 somewhat plentiful on herbaceous thicket-grown slopes near the river 

 of Lopollo. Flowers Feb. and March. With fruit and a few flowers 

 March 1860. No. 1626. 



