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linear radical leaves ; seeds flattened. Mutollo, Jan. 1857. Cou. 
Carp. 1046. 
Punco Anponeo.—Bulb large, tunicate, leaves linear, a foot long, 
channelled, suberect, scape branched. With scape and broken fruits, 
found in Tunda Quilombe on the presidium Oct. 1856, subsequently 
bearing buds but no flowers in the garden at Golungo. No. 3845. 
HuviILia.—A bulbous herb with no leaves and a fruit-bearing almost 
dead scape. End of Jan. 1860. No. 1049. 
17. URGINEA Steinh. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 810. 
Sect. 1.—SqQuiLLa. 
1, U. psilostachya Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 
i, p. 247 (1878); Durand & Schinz, Consp, Fl. Afr. v. p. 383. 
CazENGO.—Bulb ovate-conical, as big as a fist and sometimes 
larger, semi-epigzeal, scales broadly ovate of web-like filaments as in 
U. maritima, concave, laxly imbricate, herbaceous-green. A number of 
bulbs, 12 to 15, old and young, are generally crowded together in small 
heaps. Leaves only properly developed after fruit is ripe, erect (very 
like those of U. maritima), 1 to 14 ft., broadly linear, shortly acuminate, 
with a subulate mucro, succulent-coriaceous, rather rigid, bright green 
above, faintly transversely wrinkled, obtusely carinate below. Scape 
3 to 4 ft., cylindrical, smooth, green, solid, springing with a tuft of 
leaves from the centre of the bulb, raceme 2 spans and longer, some- 
times almost 2 ft. Bracts violet, a little way from the pedicel, 
with a saccate spur. Perianth-segments recurved, white, with a her- 
baceous-green basal nerve. Stamens thin or flattened subulate, anthers 
pale: yellowish, cordate-oblong. Ovary conical, obscurely 6-angular, 
yellowish-green, ovules numerous horizontal. Style thick, triquetrous, 
whitish ; stigma obtusely trigonous, after pollination trifoliolate or 
trilobed. Dry thickets in sandy soil on the right of the river Luinha, 
bulbs and leaves Dec. 1854. Fl. August 1855. No. 3807. 
Punco Anponeo.—Leaves bifarious, arcuately spreading, thick, 
glaucous subobtuse. A bulb with leaves near Candumba March 1857, 
which afterwards flowered sparsely in Welwitsch’s Golungo garden 
4 August, 1857. A unique specimen. No. 3808. 
Sect. 2.—ALBUCOPSI8. 
2. U.comosa Welw. ex Baker, i.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 381. 
Huitta.—A_ bulbous herb, with lorate broadly linear channelled 
acuminate leaves, and a glaucous scape 3 to 4 ft. long with a terminal 
raceme 1 to 14 ft., scape cylindrical, axis of raceme channelled, poly- 
gonous. Flowers numerous, greenish, including the anthers. Filaments 
all flattened, gradually decreasing upwards from a broad base. Thicket- 
grown and wooded rather damp pastures on the Huilla plain between 
Lopolloand Monino. In fl.and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No.3815. 
Wooded thicket-grown hills near Lopollo, Nov. 1859. CoLu. Carp. 82. 
MossAMEDES.—Bulb very large, ovate, leaves 2 to 3 ft. long, 13 in. 
broad at the base, long-sheathing, appearing with the flowers. Scape 
5 to 6 ft., $ to 1 in. thick at the base. Raceme 1 to 1} ft., ending in a 
dense conspicuous coma of sterile bracts. Perianth-segments oblong- 
linear, with an obtuse slightly hooded apex ; stamens shorter, erect, 
equal. Ovary obtusely trigonous, with truncate apex ; style firm white 
triquetrous, scarcely exceeding the stamens and crowned with an 
obtuse slightly papillose stigma. Capsule with 3 ventricose lobes 
