62 XI, LILIACEZ, [Scilla 
hooded at the apex. Stamens attached to the base of the segments, 
subulate, scarcely dilated at the base, purple, exserted owing to the 
wide spreading of the segments; anthers violet, pollen yellowish- 
green. Style filiform, somewhat arcuately deflexed ; stigma subobtuse, 
papillosely capitellate. Rocky slopes of Tunda Quilombo on the 
presidium. Sandy places near Candumba densely crowded over very 
wide areas; without fl. Jan. and March 1857. No. 3832. 
Gotunco ALTo.—Subsequently observed in fl., beginning of July 
1857. No. 3833 (represented only by a sketch of a plant in flower). 
4, §.simiarum Baker, J.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 398. 
S. arenaria Baker, U.c.; Durand & Schinz, .c., p. 390. 
Loanpa.—Leaves glaucous-green prostrate, carinate, spotted with 
purple at the base, subfleshy. Scape more or less ascending, violet- 
green, purple-spotted at the base, terete. Flowers green-violet, 
spreading or even nodding, pedicels petaloid, hyaline-violet, with two 
shorter hyaline-whitish bracts. Filaments flattened, blue, anthers 
yellowish-green ; style thick, subterete, a little shorter than the 
filaments, stigma very shortly papillate, rather flat. Unripe capsules 
deeply trilobed, lobes with a very obtuse rounded apex. Sandy 
places flooded in summer very dry in winter near Quicuxe. April 
1854. No. 3821. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Flowers lilac. Bulbs much liked by monkeys. 
Very plentiful in high rocky meadows on the south of the presidium. 
In fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 3822. A small bulbous herb, all the 
leaves emerging from the top of the bulb erect-spreading, sub- 
glaucous-green and pubescent. Pedicels and flowers a beautiful violet. 
In great quantity, covering wide areas in sandy-wooded short-grassed 
pastures near Condo and Quitage. March 1857. No. 3823. 
No. 3823 is Baker’s S. arenaria, but I cannot distinguish it from 
S. simiarum. 
5. §. flaccidula Baker, Z.c.; Durand & Schinz, i.c., p. 392. 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—Bulb ovate, leaves linear-lanceolate, channelled, 
obtusely keeled, herbaceous-green, brightly shining. Raceme lax, 
pedicels petaloid, violet, very spreading, with distant bracteoles 
bidentate at the apex. Corolla herbaceous-green, segments rotately 
spreading, filaments deep purple, exserted ; style arcuately declinate, 
purplish, papillately stigmatose at the apex. Thickets at the side of 
rocks near Pedra Pungo, in fr. Nov. 1856. Flowered at the beginning 
of July in garden at Golungo. No. 3820. 
‘i ae laxiflora Baker, J.c., p. 250, non Gard. Chron. ix. p. 668 
Loanpa.—Bulb ovate-conical, scales dark, upwardly sheathing; 
leaves generally 3 or 4, lanceolate, subfleshy, and subrigid, almost 
orchidaceous, with dark purple spots on the upper face, narrowing 
gradually into a sheathing channelled petiole densely spotted with black 
or blood-red, spreading at flowering time, shorter than the scape. 
Scape cylindrical, a span and more, ascending with a gentle curve or 
almost suberect, branched at the apex, glabrous. Pedicels spreading 
widely when in flower, soon almost nodding, deep violet, with two 
basal bracteoles or one bipartite. Perianth herbaceous-green, segments 
campanulate below, spreading rotately from the middle, equal, broadly 
lanceolate, falling together loosely after pollination, Stamens inserted 
on the perianth-segments high above the base, long exserted ; filaments 
equal, firm, straight, far exceeding the perianth. Style firm, white, 
