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faleate lanceolate side-lobes. Fruit ampulliform, smooth, glabrous, 
not grooved, 3 in. long, 1 in. diam. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Niamniam; Nabambisso River (in woods 
along the Boddo, near Sabbi, ex Schumann), Schweinfurth, 3022! Assika River, 
Schweinfurth, 3310! Nabanda Yuru, Schweinfurth, 3335! 
Imperfectly known Species. 
A. macrospermum, Smith in Rees, Cyclop. xxxix. No. 3; A. 
Clusii, Smith, loc. cit.. No. 4; and A. strobilaceum, Smith, loc. cit., 
Vo. 8, are described from such incomplete material (fruit and seed only) 
that it is impossible to identify them with certainty. 
A. crassilabium, Schumann in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 149. Leaves 
8-10 in. long. 14-2 in. broad, broadest above the middle, glabrous, 
shortly petioled ; ligule nearly 1 in. long. Flowers yellow. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, 3000-3500 ft., Holst, 
4240, 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
A. Mala, Schumann in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 149. Leaves oblong, 
moderately firm, 1-14 ft. long, 4—5 in. broad at the middle, glabrous on 
both sides, deltoid at the base, shortly petioled above the sheath ; 
ligule large, truncate. Flowers 3-34 in. long, golden yellow. Fruit 
fusiform, eatable. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Mlalo, Holst, 2459! 3740, 
A. Korarima, Pereira, Mat. Med. edit. 3, 1136, figs. 245-247, 
Fruit ampulliform, narrowed gradually to the apex, 2 in. long, 1 in. 
diam., flattened on one side, glabrous, not vertically grooved. Seed 
rather larger than in A. Melegueta, globose or somewhat angled, olive- 
brown, with an aromatic taste.—Kew Bulletin, 1894, 400. 
Wile Land. “Brought to the market of Baso, in Southern Abyssinia, from 
Tumhe, somewhere about 9° N. lat. and 35° (363°) E. long. Carried down to Massowa, 
and thence exported to India ” (Pereira). 
There are specimens in the Kew Museum received from Bombay and Aden, and 
directly from Abyssinia from the Countess of Mayo. 
5, RENEALMIA, Linn. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 648. 
Calyx firm in texture, narrowly or broadly funnel-shaped, 3-toothed 
at the apex. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; lobes subequal, 
oblong-lanceolate. Lateral staminodia rudimentary ; lip a little longer 
than the coroilla-lobes; fertile anther 2-celled, not crested ; filament 
narrow. Ovary cylindrical, 3-celled ; ovules many ina cell; style long, 
filiform ; stigma turbinate. Capsule globose, rather fleshy, finally 
dehiscing irregularly. Seeds few, subglobose, arillate ; testa much 
intruded ; embryo straight.—Rootstock fleshy, sending out cylindrical 
