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reddish bracts. Perianth 6-partite to the base, ovate-campanulate, 
narrowing and equal at the mouth, greenish-white, narrowing 
pyramidally after flowering ; stamens 6, included, equal, inserted on the 
base of the segments ; filaments white, flattened, somewhat dilated at 
the base ; anthers large, ovate, introrse, dorsifixed, dehiscing longi- 
tudinally. Ovary oblong, triquetrous, bearing a yellow linear-oblong 
gland between the angles. Style rather long, central, stigma truncate. 
Plentiful in rocky places near springs on the presidium, growing with 
Orchids and Asclepiads, especially round Catete and Luxillo. In leaf 
and fr. Nov. 1857. Nos. 3866, 3867. Bulbs with stems were not 
infrequently found from Oct. to May. Welwitsch saw flowers only in 
specimens cultivated in Golungo Alto in August 1857. 
9. ERIOSPERMUM Jacq.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 
p. 786. 
1. E. stenophyllum Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 
i. p. 261 (1878); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 341. 
Puneo ANDONGo.—Tuber fairly large, depressed, fibrous at the lower 
margin, flesh not blood-red as in the remaining species. Perianth sul- 
phur-coloured, connivent, reddish at the hooded apex. Sandy thicket- 
grown meadows on the banks of the Cuanza near Candumba, where 
tubers with leaves were picked in March 1857. Flowered in Welwitsch’s 
Loanda garden 29 Nov. 1858, and middle of April 1859. No. 3758. 
2. E. andongense Welw. ex Baker, J.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c., 
p. 339. 
Punco ANDoNnGo.—An acaulescent herb with a large depressed 
hemispherical or hemispherico-conical tuber, flattened beneath, with 
fibril-bearing margin, and blood-rose-red flesh, giving off after the 
flowers have withered a solitary oblong or elliptical, fleshy-leathery very 
stiff leaf narrowing into a petiole, and suberect or obliquely spreading. 
Scape 1 to 2 spans or a foot, with a short convolute leaf-like bract, 
cylindrical, green, polished, generally twisted, passing into a raceme 
2to4in.long. Flowers with elongated peduncles bracteate at the base,. 
sulphur-yellow. Perianth 6-partite, at first urceolate-campanulate, 
open when mature, soon closing again, lobes more or less obovate- 
spathulate, sulphur-yellow with a median purple nerve, apex inflexed, 
hooded, subequal both in length and breadth ; stamens 6 on the base 
of the segments and shorter than them, those opposite the outer seg- 
ments the shorter. Anthers oblong-cordate, emarginate, erect, ripening 
successively. Ovary ovate-trigonous, style obsoletely trigonous, straight; 
stigma very minutely muriculate. Mature fruit not seen. Plentiful 
in thickets and open woods near Caghuy and elsewhere round the: 
presidium. Tuber and leaves found in Nov. 1856 ; also plentiful in 
sandy-clayey thickets between the streams Casalale and Midge, in leaf’ 
Dec. 1856. Flowers examined at the end of Nov. 1857 in own garden 
at Loanda. No. 3757. 
For information as to the flowers we depend entirely upor Wel-: 
witsch’s description given above; there are none on the herbarium 
specimens, and he himself says, “I have looked in vain for the 
flowering scape in the herbarium.” 
3. E. flexuosum Welw. ex Baker, /.c.,; Durand & Schinz, J.c., 
p. 340. 
Huitia.—Plentiful in rather damp pastures between Humpata and. 
Lopollo, Beginning of Nov. 1859. No. 3760. 
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