54 XI, LILIACEZ. [Chlorophytum 
top of the scape, forming a whitish petaloid crown. Rather rare, in 
rock-crevices near springs, and by streams on the presidium. In fi. 
24 Dec. 1856. Rather rare in Barranco de Catete; in fl. Jan. 1857. 
No. 3771. 
4. C. filipendulum Baker, J.c., p. 260; Durand & Schinz, lc., 
p. 350. 
Gotunco ALTo.—A succulent acaulescent herb. Leaves broadly 
lanceolate, long-acuminate, with a broad sheathing base, shining above, 
pale beneath, longitudinally striate on each face ; root-fibres rather 
fleshy. Scape lateral, scarcely exceeding the larger leaves, cylindrical, 
with one or two spreading branchlets: Inflorescence racemose, bracts 
acuminate, subtending 1, 2, or 3 flowers, and hiding their pedicels, 
Perianth milk-white, segments partly closed valvately before, during 
and after pollination. Stamens 6, rather broad, anthers cordate- 
lanceolate, attached in the basal sinus, dehiscing longitudinally and 
introrsely ; style cylindric, almost exceeding the perianth-segments, 
stigma papillate. Ovary trigonous, 3-locular, seeds black, angled. 
Shady places by streams, Queta mountains; a single specimen with 
almost withered flowers found Dec. 1853. No. 3776. 
5. C. lancifolium Welw. ex Baker, /.c.; Durand & Schinz, Jc, 
p. 351. 
Punco Anponco.—A herb with a fibrous root, fibres fleshy and 
thickened. Leaves with long reddish channelled petioles, blade grass- 
green. Perianth whitish-green. Stamens straight. Stigma slightly 
capitellate. Shady places by cataracts on the rocks of the presidium. 
Scarcely in full fl. end of Nov. 1856. No. 3772. Shady woods by 
streams between Quisonde and Condo. In fr. March 1857. No. 3773. 
6. C. andongense Baker, /.c.; Durand & Schinz, lc., p. 349. 
Punco ANDoNGO,—Flowers white. Thicket-grown rocks on all the 
Sg a of the presidium. In fl. Dec. 1856, in fr. Jan. 1857. 
No. 3770. 
7. C, debile Baker, /.c.; Durand & Schinz, J.c., p. 350. 
Ameriz.—A herb, perennial by a fibrous filipendulous root, leaves 
subfleshy, glaucous-green, scapes ascending, flowers white, subfleshy. 
Rocks between Ambriz and Quisembo. Nov. 1858. No. 3769. 
8. C. stenopetalum Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 331 (1876), 
in Trans. Linn. Soe., 4c. ; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 352. 
C. bracteoswm Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc., J.c. 
Hvitia.—A perennial acaulescent herb with a fleshy fibrous rhiz- 
ome, densely leafy at the base, leaves lanceolate, closely veined, erect, 
partly plicate. Flowers whitish-yellow, in a simple raceme, more 
rarely once to twice branched, almost entirely covered by the bracts. 
Style straight, stigma truncate not capitellate. Rather rare in little 
Protea-woods near Lopollo. In fl. and unripe fr. end of Dec. 1859. 
No. 3768. 
Sect. 2.—Dasysracuys. 
9. C. pleiostachyum Durand & Schinz, J.c., p. 352. 
Dasystachys pleiostachya Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc., J.c., p. 255. 
Anthericum ? pleiostachyum Welw. ex Baker, l.c. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—A subglaucous herb 8 to 4 ft. high ; bulb large 
wrinkled, many-fibred, compact, mealy-white inside. Stem straight 
