Gloriosa] XI. liliace^. 65 



21. GLOmOSA L. ; Bentb. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 830. 



1. G. superba L. Sp. PI. p. 305 (1753) ; Welw. Apoiit. p. 592 ; 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 457 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. 

 Fl. Afr. V. p. 417. 



Sierra Le(1NE. — Climbing to a height of 5 to (5 ft. Mountains 

 behind Freetown, 1853. No. 1742. A unique specimen. 



GoLUXGo Alto. — A herb sometimes erect, sometimes cHmbing on 

 the higher grasses and on shrubs. Tuber smooth and whitish outside, 

 3-digitate, with numerous filiform fibres, stem 3 to 6 ft. ; leaves 2 or 3, 

 the lower alternate, the rest opposite, finely striately nerved, somewhat 

 shiny above, paler beneath, upper ones tendril-bearing. Flowers at 

 first green, then yellow, finally scarlet ; two or three swollen hairy 

 glands at base of si^gments. Native names " Dicumbelle," " Cumbelle." 

 Wooded deeply herb-grown meadows on the river Qiiiapose near Sange. 

 In fl. Nov. & Dec. 1854. No. 1743« Thickets between Cambondo 

 and the river Luinha. In fl. Jan., in fr. June 1855. No 1743?'- Tubers 

 sent from Angola and flowered at Lisbon July 1862. No. 1743c. May 



1856. Coll Carp. 1039. 



PuNGo Andoxgo.^ — Wooded mountain-slopes of the preesidium near 

 Mata de Cabondo ; sporadic. In fl. Dec. 1856 : flowerless stem April 



1857. No. 1744. 



2. G. simplex L. Mant. p. 62 (1767). 



G. virescens Lindl. Bot. Mag. t. 2539 (1825); Baker in Jonrn. 

 Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 458, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 262 ; 

 Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect herb 1 to l^ft., densely leaved, scarcely 

 bi'anched, 2- to 5-flowered. Flowers blood-red even when in bud. 

 Perianth-segments subequal, elliptical, with a narrow channelled base 

 and long-acuminate apex, twice to thrice undulated in the middle, 

 blood-red inside and out except for some lateral sulphur-coloured 

 bands at the base. Flowers a little smaller than in (t. suprrha, with 

 proportionately broader, more markedly striate leaves showing only 

 a tendency to become cirrhose ; root-tubers as in G. superba. Woody 

 thickets on the prpesidium near Catete, but rare. In fl. beginning 

 of Dec. 1856. No. 1745. Flowers a pale copper-green when alive, 

 reddening in drying. In fl. end of Nov. 1857. No. 1745&. In fr. 

 only in rather dry thickets near the banks of the river Cuanza near 

 Sansamanda, 7 Feb. 1857. Coll. Carp. 1040. 



HuiLLA.— Never climbing. Flowers blood-red from the first ; petals 

 very slightly or scarcely at all undulate ; peduncles extra-axillary. 

 Deep-grassed wooded meadows on the banks of the river Monino, 

 growing with Epilohiuni, Salix, and Fa urea. In fl. beginning of 

 March 1860. No. 1746. Sporadic on wooded rather damp slopes across 

 Lake Ivantala near the road to Quilengues. In fl. Feb. 1860. No. 

 1746/'. The loveliest queen of tropical African Liliacesc. In fr. on 

 the river Monino. End of April 1860. Coll. Carp. 63. 



22. LITTONIA Hook. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. p. 831. 

 1. L. Welwitschii Benth. & Hook, f., I.e. 



Sandersonia littonioides Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. 2. i. p. 262 (1878) ; Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 453 ; Durand & 

 Schinz, Consp, Fl. Afr. v. p. 418. 



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