64 XI, LILIACE. [Ornithogalumm 
19, ORNITHOGALUM L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 
p. 815. 
Sect. 1.—BERYLLIS. 
1. 0. benguellense Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 248 
(1878) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp, Fl. Afr. v. p. 400. 
Huiitia.—A bulbous herb with purplish-white flowers. Perianth 
after maturity spirally twisting at the apex then falling like a calyptra. 
Ovules very few in the loculus. Near Lopollo Nov. 1859. Sandy 
thickets round Lopollo. In fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. No. 3766. 
The following numbers may belong to the genus, but in 
absence of flowers (and leaves) it is impossible to determine 
more exactly :— 
Punco AnponGo,--A herb with a solid bulb white, densely fleshy 
and viscid inside. Leaves radical and, judging from their remains, 
linear, Remnants of flowers yellowish. In thickets with short 
herbage near Candumba, where it was found growing gregariously but 
with fl. and fr. already past. End of Jan. 1857. No. 3767. 
Pongo AnponGo.—A herb with a solid bulb whitish inside and 
outside, with close fleshy scales, leaf radical, solitary, filiform, scape a 
foot long, erect, filiform, flowers in a long raceme. Rather rare on the 
tops of the rocks of Pedra Pungo. A few fruiting specimens Dec. 1857. . 
No. 3765. 
20. IPHIGENIA Kunth; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii, 
p. 824. 
1. I. guineensis Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xvii. p. 451 (1879) ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 415. 
Melanthium guineense Welw. ex Baker, J.c. 
Punco AnDoNGO.—Leaves linear-subulate deeply channelled up to 
the top, glaucous-green, subrigid. Perianth-segments a livid green 
outside, rose-violet within, stellately spread, deciduous. Stony pastures 
with short grass among the rocks of the presidium, plentiful but not 
found in many places. In fl. 29 Oct. 1856. No. 1625. 
Hvitua.—A slender herb a span long, bulb the size of a hazel-nut, 
of a compact white flesh inside, clothed with a few dark scales. Stem 
erect, angular, leafy, scarcely branched. Leaves alternate, the lower 
lanceolate-linear, the upper linear, channelled-triquetrous, long-acu- 
minate, sheathing at the base, sheaths adhering for some distance to 
the stem. Perianth herbaceous-green beneath, greenish-purple above, 
segments quite distinct, sessile, linear-lanceolate with a somewhat 
narrowed base, stellately expanded, deciduous ; stamens much shorter 
at the very base of the segments, filaments cylindric, rather thick, and 
stiff, purplish, erect-spreading ; anthers extrorse ; pollen deep yellow, 
plentiful. Ovary sessile obovate-globose, slightly triangular, many- 
ovuled ; stigmas 3 subcylindric, shorter than the ovary, recurving, 
stigmatose on the inside, persistent adhering to the dehiscing valves. 
Capsule obovate-cylindric, very bluntly 3-angled, loculicidal. Seeds in 
two axile series in each loculus, angled-subglobose, dull-red ; albumen 
plentiful, hard, fleshy or rather cartilaginous, including the central 
embryo. Rather rare in somewhat damp meadows on lake Ivantila ; 
somewhat plentiful on herbaceous thicket-grown slopes near the river 
of Lopollo. Flowers Feb. and March. With fruit and a few flowers 
March 1860. No. 1626. 
