58 XI. LILIACER, [Albuca 
24 ft, straight, radical leaves erect, long-sheathing, channelled, linear- 
acuminate, a splendid green, longitudinally striate. In the flowering 
stage the leaves are short (scarcely 3 in. long) subulately convolute 
and glaucous, afterwards 2 to 3 ft. long, $ in. broad, bright green and 
rather flat, Flowers scarcely scented, segments whitish-green, with a 
yellowish tinge, with a broad green median longitudinal band, bracts 
long and narrowly acuminate from a broad sheathing base, white to 
purplish ; corolla almost bilabiate, the inner uppermost segment 
helmet-like enclosing 3 stamens closely appressed to its surface ; the 
other three stamens look downwards but are free, not appressed to 
the corresponding segments. Stamens all fertile, filaments broadly 
winged at the base, almost covering the ovary. Style columnar, 
symmetrical, obtusely trigonous, green, gradually narrowing above into 
an obsoletely trilobulate yellow stigma. Rocky mountain thickets 
near Quicanda. Sept. 1857. No. 3837. 
4, A, subspicata Baker, .c., Durand & Schinz, Zc., p. 380. 
Huta. — Flowers whitish-green, Lofty rocks of Morro de 
Monino; rather rare. April 1860. No. 3839. 
5. A. chlorantha Welw. ex Baker, /.c.; Durand & Schinz, i.c., 
p. 378. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—Herb with a globose bulb, scape leafy at base, 
erect ; flowers greenish, fleshy. Thickets on the river Cuanza near 
Quibinda and near Condo. Flowers greenish, tawny yellow when 
dried. Grassy thickets between Lombe and Quibinda. March 1857. 
No. 3835. 
6. A. angolensis Welw. Apont. p. 591 (1859); Baker in Saund, 
Refug. Bot. t. 336 (1872), in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 290, in 
Trans. Linn. Soc., d.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 377. 
A, abyssinica Welw. ex Baker in Gard. Chron, 1872, p. 392 (non 
Dryand.). 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—Grassy slopes (Senti) on the heights of Alta Queta 
but not plentiful. In fi. middle of April 1855. A bulbous herb 5 to 
7 ft. high with large sulphur-coloured flowers. Cou. Carp. 1035. 
CazeNGo.—Dry plains between Dalatanda and the river Caringa, 
but rather rare, June 1855, 
Huitia.—A herb 3 to 5 ft. high; flowers yellow with broad red 
bands, erect-spreading, sporadic but plentiful in deeply herb-grown 
rather damp meadows between Lopollo and the river. Dec. 1859, 
Feb. 1860. No. 3836. 
The material under the following numbers is insufficient for 
specific determination :— 
ZENZA DO GoLUNGO.—A bulbous plant with habit of Scilla or 
Urginea. Flowers, almost entirely over, white-purplish, Arid hills 
with scanty shade between Calolo and Calumguembo. Sept. 1857. 
No. 3755. 
MossamMepEs.—Several bulbs were collected, but lost during the 
rebellion of the Munani. Plentiful in sandy places by the sea between 
Mossamedes and Praia da Amelia. With split fr. Aug. 1859, No. 3841. 
Pungo AnDonGo.—A small bulbous herb with grassy radical leaves. 
Marsh pastures covered with short herbage at Mutollo at the foot of 
the Serra de Pedras de Guinga. Without fl., but with fr. and seed 
Jan. 1857. No. 3842. A bulbous acaulescent plant 2 in. high, with 
