60 XI, LILIACER. [Urginea 
depressed and truncate above, seeds horizontal, concave, compressed, 
closely over-lapping downwards, black, shining. Sporadic in sandy 
places at the river Bero, near Cavalheiros. In fl. and fr. June 1859. 
No. 3814. July 1859. Coxu. Carp. 1026. 
3. U. chlorantha Welw. ex Baker, lc. p. 248; Durand & 
Schinz, Jc. 
Loanpa.—Bulb ovate, white below a few ash-coloured tunics, fleshy, 
with long fibres at the base. Leaves sheathing, equal in length to the 
scape, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, subflaccid, glaucous-green, striate, 
deeply channelled, very obtusely carinate, subcoriaceous, with dark 
green spots at the base. Scape 3 to 43 ft., central, enveloped at 
the base by the leaf-sheaths, raceme to #ft., ending in a coma of 
greenish empty bracts. Pedicels bibracteate, lower ones sometimes 
unibracteate, outer bract acuminate from a broad half-sheathing base 
longer than the pedicel, the second inner or lateral, shorter, linear or 
more rarely very shortly ovate-acuminate, both greenish. In fruit the 
pedicels become much longer than the bracts. Perianth-segments 
herbaceous-green with a membranous-white edge, oblong, subequal, 
hooked at the tip, the outer 5-nerved, the inner 3-nerved, spreading- 
reflexed at maturity. Stamens equal, suberect, white, gradually 
acuminate from a broadly winged base. Pollen yellowish-white ; style 
and stigma whitish. Style straight, rather thick, obscurely trigonous, 
gradually becoming clavate towards the apex, stigma obtuse, finely 
papillose. Capsule trilobed almost to the axis, loculi turgid, oblong- 
ellipsoid, seeds horizontally flattened in 2 series. In sandy herbaceous 
shortly-grassed places, and among Mandioca plantations near Forte de 
Penedo behind Loanda, with fl. and unripe fr. end of Nov. 1857. 
Thicket-grown pastures near Penedo. In fl. and fr. end of Dec. 1857. 
No. 3810. Cott. Carr. 1028, Sandy meadows in the littoral region 
Dec. 1858. Cont. Carp. 1030. Praia de Concei¢ao near Loanda, Dec. 
1858. Cony. Carp. 1031. 
GoLuneo ALTo.—An autumnal plant with greenish flowers. On 
once cultivated slopes between Sange and Bango. In fl. April 1855. 
No. 3812. Bango, May 1856. Cou. Carp. 1033. 
AmpBaca.—1 to 2 ft., with the habit of Ornithogalum ; flowers 
greenish. In fr. Oct. 1856. CoLL. Carp. 1032. 
4. U. cepefolia Welw. ms. in Herb. 
Ornithogalum cepefolium Baker, l.c.; Durand & Schinz, lc. 
Resembles the last species in habit. Separated from Ornitho- 
galum by the slightly perigynous stamens and flattened seeds with 
embryo nearly equal in length to the endosperm. 
Hvitia.—1 to 2 ft. high ; stem scape-like sheathed by the leaves to 
the middle, leaves erect, green, resembling those of Allium Cepa, having 
the margins inrolled so that the leaf appears hollow ; flowers whitish- 
green, capsules obtusely trigastrous. Here and there in sunny herb- 
grown places on banks of streams near the river Monino and Lopollo, 
Dec. 1859. No. 3816. A bulbous herb, stem leafy at the base, scape 
elongated, flowers not seen, Lopollo, Feb. 1860. Cox. Carp. 1027. 
The following numbers, which are represented by material in- 
sufficient for certain determination, should probably be included 
in this species :— 
Punco AnDoneo.—Flowers greenish. Sandy wooded places near 
