A. B. RENDLE : MONOCOTYLEDONS. 225 
Coast of Vietoria Nyanza. Female fl., March, 586. 
Distrib. Widely spread in Tropical Africa ; also in South 
Africa. 
ASPARAGUS Bucuanant, Baker, in Kew Bull. (1893) 211. 
Near Kikobe ferry, River Kagera. Fl. March, 179. 
Native name “ Rashavashava." 
Distrib, German East Africa, Nyassaland and the Zambesi. 
A. FALCATUS, Linn. Sp. Pl. 313. 
Near Mulema. F]. March, 186. 
Distrib. Tropical and South Africa. Also Tropical Asia. 
DRACENA STEUDNERI, Engler, Pflanzenwelt Ost- Afr. C. 143. 
Musozi. Fr. January, 104. 
Native name “ Kikajo enjovu ” (elephant's cane). 
Distrib. Abyssinia. 
I have not seen an authoritative specimen of this plant, and 
as our specimen bears no flowers, the determination is somewhat 
tentative. The woody apex of the shoot is nearly 2 em. in 
diameter, and bears a head of crowded, long, narrowly lanceolate 
leaves tapering to the sheathing base, from 40-50 dm. long and 
4 em. or slightly less in breadth, with the midrib prominent for 
about two-thirds the length from the base. The shortly pedi- 
cellate flowers are fascicled in several clusters at the ends of the 
subcompressed branchlets of the panicle. The berries are from 
1 to 14 em. in diameter. 
ALOE JOHNSTONI, Baker, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. il., Bot. ii. 
(1887) 351, t. 63. 
Hillside, Mulema. Fl. April, 241. 
Distrib. British East Africa. 
BULBINE ASPHODELOIDES, Schult. f. Syst. Veg. vii. 444. 
Near Kiboke ferry, River Kagera. Fl. March, 174. 
Distrib, East Tropical Africa from Abyssinia to the Cape 
and Portuguese West Africa. 
ScILLA CHLORANTHA, Baker, in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vii. 555. 
Near Mulema. Fl. April, 259. 
Leaves of some plants plain, of others mottled with brown 
spots. 
Distrib. Bahr-el-Ghazal. 
