34 VIII, AMARYLLIDE. [Crinum 
glaucous, thick, coriaceous, curved linear, obtuse. Habit of a Pan- 
cratium. Flowers not seen. Plentiful on rocks covered with damp 
sand between Candumba and Mangue, March 1857. No. 4013. 
The following may belong to the genus :— 
TALAMAGONGO.—A bulb, found in rather damp places near Casange 
by Don Pereira and sent to Welwitsch ; produced only leaves when 
cultivated in his garden at Golungo ; afterwards grown in the Lumiar 
garden (Lisbon). Leaves gathered in garden at Golungo, June 1856. 
No. 4022. 
6. CYRTANTHUS Ait. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 729, 
1. C. Welwitschii Hiern ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 197 ; 
Baker Handb. Amaryllid. p. 55; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. 
Afr. v. p. 262. 
Hv1LLa.—Bulbous ; leaves contemporary with the flowers, linear, 
erect, obtuse, glaucescent, equalling the scape; flowers brick-red, 
rather fleshy, patulous, 1 in. long, tube gradually narrowing towards 
the ovary. Seeds obliquely imbricated, black, winged on one side. 
The three valves of the capsule ultimately reflexed. Marshy places on 
banks of streams, along with Aroides hastatum and Typha angustifolia 
near Lopollo. In fl. Nov. 1859, in fr. Jan. 1860. No. 4028. In fr. 
Jan. 1860. .Coiy. Carp. 1005. 
7. HAMANTHUS Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 730. 
1. H. multiflorus Martyn Icon. cum descript. (1795). 
Var. filiflorus Rendle. 
H. filiflorus Hiern ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 194; 
Baker Handb. Amaryllid. p. 63 (very near 2. multiflorus; perhaps 
a mere variety); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 264. 
Differs from the type in its very narrow perianth-segments, 
Ampaca.—In thicket-grown places on the red clay between Halo 
and Zamba, Oct. 1857. No. 4010. 
Puneo ANDONGO.—Bulb ovate-conical, the size of a hen’s egg to 
that of a fist, white, compact ; flowers rose-scarlet, leaves protruding 
after the flowers, numerous, leathery-fleshy, shining, sheaths very long, 
closely amplexicaul. Scape 1 to 14 ft. lateral, green, semicylindrical 
at the base, somewhat flattened above, considerably dilated below the 
umbel forming a receptacle bearing 4 reflexed spathe-leaves lanceolate- 
acuminate from a broad base, and greenish-purple, with 2 or 3 much 
narrower inner leaflets, Flowers 80 to 100, and even more, a fine 
blood-red. Pedicels slender terete-compressed, greenish-purple, inter- 
mingled with rather long filiform white bracts. Perianth-tube sulcate 
4 in., lobes linear exceeding the tube, pale rose or reddish, ultimately 
reflexed. Filaments stiff, erect, blood-red, nearly 1 in. long; anthers 
blood-red, pollen yellow. Style blood-red equal to the stamens, apex 
obsoletely 2- to 3-lobed. Odour faint, of honey. In open thickets 
and wooded places near Quilongo and Luxillo, in fl. Oct., in fr. and 
leaf Dec. and Jan. 1857-8. No. 4009. 
2. H. angolensis Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Bot., J.c.; Baker 
Handb. Amaryllid. p. 65; Durand & Schinz, Zc, p. 263. 
GoLuNGo ALTO,—Bulb 4 to 6 years old, elongate-cylindrical, slightly 
thickened at the base, where there are numerous long fleshy root- 
fibres. Leaves appearing after the flowers, closely sheathing, fleshy, 
