56 XI, LILIACEA, [Chlorophytum 
The fragment included under the following number probably 
belongs to this tribe :— 
Mossamepes.—A bulbous herb. More lofty sandy hills near Serra 
do Montes Negros. In fr. August 1859. No. 3782. 
A fragment with the remains of a branched scape bearing empty 
loculicidally dehisced capsules. 
Trize v. ALLIE A. 
13, TULBAGHIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 798. 
1. T. equinoctialis Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 
i. p. 246 (1878) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 355. 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—Habit recalling that of Leucqjum. Bulbous; 
leaves linear, subglaucescent, erect ; flowers horizontally nodding, 
spathe 2-leaved, scarious. Corolla white, 6-fid, corona yellow. Rather 
damp shady places near Banza do Soba Quitage. Single specimen in 
fl. March 1857. No. 3754. 
14, ALLIUM L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. iii. p. 802. 
1, A. angolense Baker in Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2.i. p. 262 (1878); 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 357. 
Gotungo ALTO.—Bulb narrowly conical, elongated, leaves hollow, 
subulate, erect, glaucous-green. Scape hollow, a little inflated in the 
middle, not at the base. Herb-grown places on the banks of the river 
Quiapose near Terras de Bumba. In fl. May 1855. No. 3764. 
Tripe vi. SCILLEL. 
15. DIPCADI Medic. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 809. 
1. D. oxylobum Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2. i. 
p. 246 (1878); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 375. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—F lowers a cinnamon-red, subfleshy and subrigid, 
outer segments acute. On the slopes bearing short herbage of the 
huge rocks of the presidium. In fl. Nov. 1856. No. 3714. 
2. D, Welwitschii Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. xi. p. 400 (1871), 
in Trans, Linn. Soc., l.c.; Durand & Schinz, J.c., p. 376. 
Uropetalum Welwitschit Baker in Saund. Refug. Bot. t. 16 (1868). 
Huitita.—A bulbous herb, with 1 to 2 channelled subglaucous 
leaves ; scape 1 ft. long, slender, erect, flowers in a secund raceme, 
nodding, greenish, outer perianth-segments far exceeding the inner. 
Capsules obtusely triquetrous or rather trigastrous, while ripening at 
first almost pendulous, then nodding, or spreading horizontally ; when 
quite ripe more or less erect. The leaves of plants growing in rocky 
places or on poor soil are very narrow and channelled right to the tip, 
in rather damp places are broader and almost quite flat from the 
middle to the apex. Herb-grown thickets near Lopollo, but rarer 
than the rest of the species ; Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 3715. A herb 
with the habit of a Hyacinth, flowers somewhat nodding, green, 
capsules subpendulous, obtusely trigastrous, stem one-leaved. Thickets 
near Huilla, Nov. 1859. No. 3716. 
Very near the last species. 
