316 CXXXIV. SCITAMINEE (BAKER). [ Donax. 
Agruafi and Dame, Krause! Lagos: Abeokuta, Barter, 3372! Niger Delta: 
Angiama, Barter, 98! Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker d Staudt, 114! bank of 
Elephant Lake, Preuss, 386! thickets by the landing-place near Barombi-ba-Mbu, 
Preuss, 424, 425, 
Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth. Niamniam: Dyagbe River, 
Schweinfurth, 3103 ! 
Lower Guinea. Gahoon: Corisco Bay, Mann, 1906! Mfoa, Bates, 544! 
Lower Congo: Mayombe, Laurent, 64. 
2. D.arillata, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb.xv.438. Stem stramineous, 
flattened, 6 ft. long, glabrous, except the hairy nodes. Leaves oblong, 
glabrous, moderately firm, 4—10 in. long, 3—4 in. broad, not variegated, 
rounded at the base ; sheaths glabrous, 4-5 in. long ; thickened free tip 
of petiole cylindrical, under 1 in. long. Inflorescence long-peduncled, 
erect, scantily forked ; sheaths glabrous, cylindrical, imbricated so as 
to nearly hide the axis, 14-2 in. long. Flowers in pairs, one sub- 
sessile, the other pedicellate. Ovary densely silky. Sepals lanceolate, 
4-4 in. long. Outer staminodia obovate, twice as long as the calyx. 
Fruit pilose, globose, apparently 1-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Barombi stream, near Kake, Preuss, 379! 
3. D. azurea, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 434. Stems tufted. 
Lower leaves reduced to mere sheaths. Leaves oblong, glabrous on 
both sides, 4-8 in. long, 2-3 in. broad ; cusp linear, very acute ; sheaths 
very long, sparsely pilose inside near the apex. Bracts 2-flowered, an 
inch or more long. Ovary pilose. Sepals unequal, lanceolate, 4—4 in- 
long. Outer staminodia bright azure-blue, obovate-cuneate, nearly an 
inch long. Fruit unknown. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Niamniam ; by the Dyagbe River, near Wando’s 
village, Schweinfurth, 3216. 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
4. D. filipes, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 440. . Stems slender, 
glabrous, 4 ft. long; nodes also glabrous. Leaves ovate-oblong, ot: 
spicuously cuspidate, 3-6 in. long, 2—3 in. broad, glabrous on both 
sides, rounded at the base, variegated with pinnate white bands ; 
sheaths glabrous, 2-5 in. long; thickened free apex of petiole not above 
% in. long. Inflorescence sparsely or copiously panicled ; sheaths 
glabrous, cylindrical, 1 in. long; flowers in pairs, one nearly sessile, 
one pedicellate. Ovary dense, pubescent. Sepals lanceolate, fin. long. 
Staminodia golden-yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Fruit small, 
3-lobed, 3-seeded.—Phrynium filipes, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 532 ; 
Horan. Prodr. 11. Clinogyne filipes, Benth. Gen. Pl. iii. 651. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: banks of the River Ogun, Millen, 141! Western 
Lagos, Rowland! Cameroons: Efulen, Bates, 441! Fernando Po, Vogel, 163! 
5. D. oligantha, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 435. Stems 
glabrous, 5-6 ft. long; nodes also glabrous. Leaves ovate-oblong, 
conspicuously cuspidate, 3—4 in. long, 14~2 in. broad, unequally rounded 
