128 CX, PODOSTEMACEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [Spherothylax. 
1. S. warmingiana, Gilg ex Warming in Kgl. Danske Selsk. Skrifter, 
ser. 6, xi. i. 17, figs. 13-19. Stem about 8 in. long, springing from a 
creeping root, slightly compressed, branched, young leaves and branches 
curved and resembling a helicoid cyme; lower branches rather long 
and bearing both leaves and flowers, upper short and flower-bearing. 
Leaves up to 9 in. long, many times pinnatisect or the ultimate divi- 
sions subdichotomous, exstipulate. Cymes scorpioid, many-flowered, 
densely clothed with imbricate digitately divided scales; spathelle 
sessile, ovoid-ellipsoid; pedicels at length 3 lin. long. Perianth- 
scales 2, linear, 4 lin. long. Filaments ? lin. long, united in the 
lower half; anther 4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse; pollen-grains 1-celled. 
Ovary obovoid-oblong, strongly 6-ribbed; styles reflexed. Capsule 
pale brownish-grey (Gilg), 1 lin. long; valves 2, subequal, 3-ribbed, 
ribs produced into apical teeth.—Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 
240, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Kubango River, at Menempremp, near Wolombo, 
5200 ft., Baum, 904! 
2. S. abyssinica, Warming in Engl. &: Prantl, Pfllanzenfam. iii. 
2A,22. Thallus irregularly lobed, up to 3 in. across. Stems up to 
8 in. long, slender, much-branched. Leaves 2—4 in. long, divided into 
very narrow linear segments. Flowers either solitary on the thallus 
or in glomerules on the stem; bracteoles 2, minute; spathelle about 
1 in. long, irregularly bursting at the apex. Filaments about 4 lin. 
long; anthers oblong, shorter than the filaments. Staminodes minute. 
Ovary ellipsoid ; style bifid, stigmatose on the inner side. Capsule ? lin. 
long, on a pedicel 2 lin. long, brown, marked with 8 paler ribs.— 
Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2356; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 229; 
Warming in Kgl, Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, ser. 6, vii. iv. 146, 
figs. 16-17, and ix, ii. 145. Anastrophea abyssinica, Wedd. in DC. 
Prodr. xvii. 79. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Gafat, 7800 ft., Schimper, 1181! 
3. S. heteromorpha, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. 876. 
Stems dimorphic, some about 20 in. long, slender, cylindrical or faintly 
channelled on one side, with leaves along one side and flowers on the 
other, others flattened or as if fasciated and bearing leaves and flowers 
round the margin. Leaves irregularly pinnatisect, with subulate 
segments. Flowers clustered on the flattened stems, usually solitary 
on the cylindrical. Spathelle rupturing and irregularly 4—5-toothed 
at the apex; pedicel about 6 lin. long, inflexed in bud; bracteoles 
1-2, filiform. Stamens 2-3; filaments united below; anther-cells 2, 
free and obtuse below, separated by a deep groove. Ovary stipitate, 
2-celled ; style with two short subulate branches, Capsule equally 
2-valved. 
South Central? Congo: without precise locality or collector’s name 
(Thollon ?). 
