50 XI, LILIACES. [Eriospermum 
4. E, paludosum Baker, /.c.; Durand & Schinz, /.c. 
Punao AnDoNGo.—A herb with compact tuber, bearing long fibres, 
with a blood-red-purple flesh ; leaves leathery, glaucous-green, appressed 
to the earth ; scape a span high, flowers yellow. Plentiful in marshy 
places from Candumba and Mutollo to Quisonde. In fl. Jan. and 
March 1857. No. 3761. 
5. E. ophioglossoides Welw. ex Baker, J.c., p. 262; Durand & 
Schinz, /.c. 
Hurtita.—Flowers a washed-out yellow, with dull purple nerves, 
pedicels rather stiff. Ieaves somewhat fleshy glaucous-green. Rather 
damp pastures with short herbage ; Lopollo, in one place only but 
plentiful there. In fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. No. 3759. Rather damp 
pastures near Humpata and Lopollo. Beginning of Dec. 1859. No. 3763. 
Material insufficient for specific determination. 
Puneo ANDoNGO.—Tuber a violet-purple inside. Plentiful in sandy 
pastures near Quitage. In leaf end of March 1857, No. 3762. 
10. ACROSPIRA Welw. ex Baker; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. iii. p. 787. 
1. A. asphodeloides Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 
i, p. 255 (1878); Durand & Schinz, Zc, p. 341. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—A genus near Anthericum, but differing in its 
divided stem, filaments broadly dilated at the base, anthers spirally 
rolled at the apex, triquetrous-lobed ovary, etc. A herb with a tuber- 
ous root, tubers broadly depressed as big as a fist, arranged in a monili- 
form series ; stem 6 to 8 or even 9 ft., orange, hard and woody, erect ; 
leaves 3 to 4 radical, erect, 2 to 4 ft. long, scarcely 1 in. broad, linear to 
laaceolate, long-acuminate, channelled, distichously sheathing at the 
base, and folded for some distance upwards, somewhat acutely carinate, 
subglaucous and subrigid. Stem clothed to the base of the inflores- 
cence with dry reduced sheath-like leaves. Inflorescence pyrami- 
dately racemose, 1 to 14 ft. long, once or twice branched at the base. 
Flowers in small somewhat remote racemes of 2 to 5 ; bracts scarious, 
red-nerved. Perianth petaloid, lobes subfleshy, white with a purple 
keel, the outer a little broader, all of equal length, erect to spreading 
at flowering time. Stamens a little shorter than the perianth, anthers 
linear-lanceolate erect, with sagittate base, bilocular, loculi polliniferous 
at the apex, which becomes bent and finally spirally rolled, filled in 
the middle and below with a waxy viscid non-fertile substance. Ovary 
sessile, ovate-oblong, 3-locular. Style filiform, deflexed-ascending, 
slightly thickened towards the apex, ending in a small thick brush-like 
stigmatic head. Plentiful on the higher rocks of the presidium, at 
Pedra Songue and at the great cataract of the river Cuanza near 
Condo. In fl. March and April 1857, Nos. 3777, 3778, 3779. 
11, ANTHERICUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 778. 
1. A. andongense Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 257 
(1878); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 341. 
Puneo Anponco.—A perennial herb, with a fibro-tuberous root, 
erect, acaulescent. Leaves subrigid and somewhat fleshy. Flowers 
white. Marshes near Candumba on the river Cuanza, Jan. 1857. 
No. 3797. Sandy damp woods hetween Luxill d Cazella. In fl. 
and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3798. Pau vee tre 
