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2, A. zebrina Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc., c., p. 264, in Journ. 
Linn. Soc., J.c., p. 167; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 314. 
Barra po Benco.—Stem short, about } ft., leafy from the base. 
Leaves rosulate, spreading horizontally, finally recurved, with a broad 
sheathing base, lanceolate, long-acuminate, hard and thickly fleshy, 
convex beneath, obtusely channelled above, glaucescent, marked on 
both sides with white areas which are parallelogram-shaped with 
broken ends, and arranged in irregular longitudinal series, margin with 
sharp red teeth, spreading at right angles in the middle of the leaf, 
the lower spreading upwards the upper downwards. Flowers brick- 
red, horizontally spreading, soon nodding. Plentiful on dry hills from 
Quicuxe towards Cacuaco, very social. July 1854. No. 3721. Very 
plentiful in clayey sandy thickets behind Loanda round Quicuxe. In 
fl. Jan., Feb., Mar. No. 3720. 
IcoLo E Benco.—Stems ceespitose, $ to ¥ ft. long, thick, erect, clothed 
to the base by the leaf-sheaths. Leaves spotted with greenish- and 
whitish-purple, spots on upper face short and broad, on lower face 
more linear, arranged in rows, reduced at the white sheaths to narrow 
dull purple lines; margin sinuately-aculeate, spines stiff, dull-red. 
Scape 3 to 4 ft., shining red, very smooth, subglaucous and pruinose, 
branched at the top, flowers in panicled racemes, brick-red, yellowish 
inside with a globose-ventricose base. Plentiful in very dry places 
from Funda to Calumguembo. Aug. to Dec., Sept. 1857. No. 3719. 
Lizonco.—Stems 14 to 2 in. in diameter, ascending, densely clothed 
with recurved withered leaves ; leaf-teeth orange-red. Scape nearly 
3 ft. central, smooth, dull red, glaucescent, branched. Flowers and 
the whole habit of the plant almost as in A. picta, but flowers a little 
smaller and tending rather to a brick-orange-red. No. 3723. 
3. A. platyphylla Baker in Trans, Linn. Soc., .c., in Journ. 
Linn. Soce., d.c.; Durand & Schinz, dc, p. 310. 
Pungo AnpDonco,—A succulent herb, stem 1 to 14 ft. long, clothed 
with a rosette of ovate-lanceolate, very thick leaves, scape lateral, 3 to 
4 ft., erect, branched in the middle, branches spreading, the central 
axis longer, livid purple with a reddish bloom. Flowers a livid-copper- 
purple, horizontally spreading, finally nodding slightly, tube spherically 
inflated at the base. Leaves with a broad shortly sheathing base, 
ovate-lanceolate in the young plant, broadly lanceolate in flowering 
specimens, slightly bent downwards, glaucous-green, marked on the 
upper face with white oblong spots, paler and not spotted beneath. 
In fi. 30 April 1857. Very plentiful in dry thickets and in marshy 
meadows on banks of the river Caranca, near Sansamanda. No. 3722. 
Loanpa.—Littoral region. No. 3725. 
4, A. palmiformis Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc., ic, p. 263, in 
Journ. Linn. Soc., lc, p. 173; Durand & Schinz, Ze. 
Hoiiia.—Shrubby, stem simple at the base, erect, 3 to 5 ft., sparsely 
branched above, branches ascending, with a crowded apical crown of 
leaves. Leaves glaucous-green, thick, succulent, rigid, brittle, lanceo- 
late from an amplexicaul base, long-acuminate, margin sinuately 
serrate, teeth ending in a hard red mucro, Perianth cylindrical, 
straight, lobes regular, inner a little broader, erecto-spreading, obtuse, 
non-appendiculate ; stamens straight. Flowers nodding, coralline- 
scarlet, buds greenish at the tip, yellowish. inside at flowering-time, 
lobes banded with red. One of the loveliest species, which, when not 
in flower, resembles a pretty little palm, as the leaves are crowded 
