Scilla] XI, LILIACEA, 63 
angled, longer than the stamens, moderately declinate or oblique, with 
a slightly subtruncate base. Ovary obtusely ovate, deeply 6-furrowed, 
ribs roundly convex, ventricose towards the base. On short-grassed 
hills round ponds in sandy clay near Quicuxe but somewhat rare. 
Bulbs with leaves found in May 1854; one specimen flowered under 
cultivation in garden at Loanda, Jan. 1858, after being kept dry till 
Nov. 1857. No. 3819. 
Baker subsequently described (Gard. Chron., J.c.), as a new species 
under the same name, a South African plant which flowered at Kew. 
Durand & Schinz have overlooked the original species founded on the 
Welwitsch material. 
7. S. platyphylla Baker, /.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 397. 
Huitia.— Bulb large, ovately-spherical, solid, whitish inside. 
Flowers whitish-green. Thicket-grown hills, sparsely grassed, between 
Lopollo and Catumba, In fl. end of Dec. 1859. No. 3826. 
8. S. congesta Baker, /.c.; Durand & Schinz, i.c., p. 391. 
Huiiia.— Flowers whitish-green, without smell; racemes very 
dense. Bulb proportionately very large, ovate-conical. _Thicket- 
grown hillsides in the Lopollo district. In fl. beginning of Jan. 1860. 
No. 3827. 
9. S. lancezefolia Baker in Saund. Refug. Bot. t. 182 (1870); in 
Trans. Linn. Soc., Zc. ; Durand & Schinz, J.c., p. 393. 
Hoitia.—F lowers whitish-yellow-green. Sandy wooded pastures 
near Mumpulla. End of Oct. 1859. No. 3828. Bulb as big as a 
walnut, solid, white, leaves subfleshy, with dark purple spots ; flowers 
purplish-lilac. Sunny hills with scanty thicket near Lopollo. Bulbs 
found Jan. 1860 ; flowered in the Lisbon garden May 1862. No. 3829. 
A unique specimen. 
The specimens under the following numbers may belong to this 
genus, but the material is insufficient for their determination :— 
Punco ANDONGO.—Bulbous, acaulescent, leaves radical, rosulate, 
spreading, lanceolate, concave, purple-spotied at the base. Bulb-scales 
dark-coloured, bulb compact. Habit of Lachenalia. Plentiful in 
thickets on the clay throughout the whole presidium. Without fl. 
Dec, 1856. No. 3831. 
Gotunco ALTo.—Bulbous with two leaves. On slopes bearing 
short herbage of the Serra de Alto Queta growing with a species of 
Hypoxis, Without fl. Feb, 1856. (Two specimens cultivated in the 
Lisbon garden, 1861.) No. 3834. A unique specimen. 
Punco Anponco.—A small plant, with a compact, white, fleshy 
succulent, round bulb, the size of a rather small walnut ; leaf solitary, 
radical, broadly cordate, with a subobtuse shortly hooded apex, thick 
and fleshy, stiff and brittle, at first involute and erect, but when 
fully developed closely appressed to the soil, rather glaucous-green. 
Scape central, an inch long, sheathed at the base by the leaf, straight, 
cylindrical, few-flowered. Flowers not well-developed but in every 
way resembling those of Drimia acuminata, but slightly smaller, short- 
stalked, open, lilac. Rather damp pastures in the edges of woods near 
the banks of the river Cuanza, near Calemba Is. Bulbs without fl. 
March 1857. Flowered in the Lumiar garden, but only sparsely. 
No. 3843. 
MossaMEDES.—Sand-hills above Porto de Ponda. End of August 
1859. No. 3844. 
