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2, A. dissitiflorum Baker, /.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 343. 
Punco Anponco.—A tuberous herb, tubers with long fibres which 
are again tuberously swollen. Flowers white. Plentiful in damp 
pastures near Condo. March 1857. No. 3781. 
Scarcely more than a dwarf variety of A. andongense Baker. 
3. A. tenellum Welw. ex Baker, l.c., p. 256; Durand & Schinz, 
Zc, p. 347, 
HviLia.—Sometimes growing singly, sometimes rather widely 
cespitose. Flowers whitish. Rather damp somewhat sandy thinly 
thicket-grown pastures near the base of Morro de Monino and on the 
more lofty heights of Morro de Lopollo. With fl. and unripe fr. Dec. 
1859. No. 3796. 
4, A. calyptrocarpum Baker, /.c., p. 258; Durand & Schinz, J.c., 
p. 342. 
Hou1iLa.—Flowers whitish with broad dull purple nerves, perianth 
marcescent adhering to the mature capsule, its apex closely twisted 
into a style-like process, finally split round the base of the ripe capsule 
by the spreading valves and separating like a calyptra. Seeds black, 
minute, flattened, quadrate or triangular. Rocky pastures which are 
flooded in the rainy season between Mumpulla and Lopollo. Almost 
past flowering, end of Dec. 1859. No. 3786. 
5. A. ustulatum Welw. ex Baker, J.c.; Durand & Schinz, J.c., 
p. 348. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Boggy sunny wooded places at Mutollo. With 
a few fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 3800. 
HoviILLa.—Pastures flooded in the rainy season, now dry. In fl. and 
fr. April 1860. No. 3801. 
6. A. benguellense Baker, /.c., p. 257; Durand & Schinz, /.c., 
p. 342. 
Hvitia.—Flowers whitish streaked with dull purple; rather 
fugacious. Plentiful in open woods and shady pastures round Lopollo 
and Humpata. In fl. and fr. Jan 1860. No. 3794. 
7, A. limosum Baker, J.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 345, 
Barra Do BenGo.—A herb a foot high, with tuberous fibrous root, 
fibres somewhat fleshy. Leaves subrigid, lanceolate-linear with long 
distichous sheaths, falcate, green, deeply channelled, acutely keeled, 
longitudinally striate especially beneath, long-acuminate, exceeding 
the scape. Scape sharply two-edged, branched at the top. Perianth 
spreading, white ; filaments flattened, anthers linear-cordate basifixed, 
loculi broad with a narrow marginal dehiscence, pollen greenish-yellow. 
Ovary oblong very obtusely trigonous. Style elongated, slightly 
curved, white, filiform ; stigma with a small papillose head. Pedicels 
jointed at 4 their length. Flowers horizontally nodding. Very rare 
in dried-up mud after the floods, from Quicuxe on the way to Cacuaco. 
In fl. beginning of Aug., without fl. Sept. 1858. No. 3803. Without 
fl. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 3804. 
8. A. orchideum Welw. ex Baker, /.c.,p. 258 ; Durand & Schinz, 
Lc, p. 346. 
Hurtita.—A_ herb with the habit of an orchid, growing sub- 
cespitosely, a foot high, erect, root of fascicled fibres, filipendulous. 
Flowers whitish. Somewhat rare in rather damp grassy places at the 
base of Serra de Monino, In fl. Jan. 1860. No. 3806. 
