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to the base, about 1 ft. long, 14-2 in. broad, moderately firm, glabrous 
on both sides; petiole slender, 14-3 in. long. Peduncle 14 ft. long, 
with several long scariose obtuse sheaths, produced direct from the 
rootstock. Panicle lax, very narrow, 1 ft. long; rhachis pubescent ; 
lower flowers geminate; pedicels short, ascending ; bracts oblong, pube- 
scent, 4—4 in. long. Calyx narrowly funnel-shaped, } in. long, obscurely 
- toothed. Corolla-tube cylindrical, rather longer than the calyx; lobes 
small, oblong-lanceolate. Lip not seen. Fruit oblong, 4 in. long.— 
Ethanium cincinnatum, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 424. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange farm, Soyaur, 180! 
4. R. grandiflora, Baker. Leaf oblong, acute, deltoid at the 
base, 2-3 ft. long, 6-7 in. broad at the middle, moderately firm, gla- 
brous on both sides. Panicle dense, thyrsoid, 1 ft. long, 4 in. broad ; 
branches spreading horizontally, the lower 2-3-flowered; pedicels 
ascending, 4—4 in. long, densely pubescent ; flower-bracts oblong-navi- 
cular, above 1 in. long, enclosing the buds. Corolla 14-2 in. long; 
lobes oblong-lanceolate, longer than the tube. Lip scarcely longer than 
the corolla-lobes. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: Angolares, Quintas, 2! 
5. R. battenbergiana, Cummins. Leafy stem 2-4 ft. long. 
‘Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, cuspidate, 6-8 in. long, 14-2 in. broad 
above the middle, narrowed to the base, firm, glabrous, with a petiole 
an inch long above the clasping sheath. Raceme simple, lax, few- 
-flowered, terminal on the leafy stem ; bracts oblong, similar in texture 
to the leaves, 3—1 in. long. Calyx funnel-shaped, } in. long. Corolla 
not seen. Capsule oblong-cylindrical, indehiscent, } in. long, red. 
Upper Guinea. Ashanti: Assin-Yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 197! 
6. THALIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 650. 
` Sepals 3, equal, free, ovate, membranous. Petals 3, free or slightly 
joined at the base; posterior rather larger than the two others. An- 
drecium with a short tube; lobes very irregular; lip obovate, with a 
crest inside; anther 1-celled on a narrow lobe. Ovary globose, with 
only one perfect cell, containing a single erect ovule; style adnate at 
the base to the staminal tube; stigma thick, appendiculate at the back. 
Capsule globose; pericarp thin, smooth, breaking irregularly. Seeds 
solitary, globose, arillate; embryo horseshoe-shaped.—Annual herbs, 
without any thickened rootstock. Leaves basal and also cauline, with 
long petioles above the sheaths. Inflorescence a lax panicle, with 
secund laxly spicate branches, the small flowers in pairs enclosed in a 
pair of complicate bracts 
Species about 8, the others American, 
` Leaf 1 in. broad ` S $ S > - . 1. T. cerulea. 
Leaf about 3 in. broad S Í S S . 2. T. Welwitschii. 
Leaf 4-6 in, broad . 3 k S i S . 3. T. geniculata. 
