318 CXXXIV. SCITAMINEZ (BAKER). [ Donax. 
9. D. purpurea, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 440. Stems 
slender, many from one rhizome, 2-3 ft. long. Leaves ovate or ovate- 
oblong, 4—14 in. long, 6-8 in. broad, glaucous-green above, pinnately 
variegated with streaks of white. Panicle erect, with slender spreading 
hispid branches; bracts oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, 14-13 in. long. 
Flowers small, blue-purple. Sepals lanceolate, obtuse, } in. long- 
Petals lorate, obtuse, longer than the staminodia. Lip small, narrow. 
Style longer than the staminodia. Fruit globose, hispid, } in. long, 
shining, scarlet, usually 2-seeded.—Clinogyne purpurea, Ridley in Journ. 
Bot. 1887, 132. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; common in woods by streams, 
2000-2500 ft., Welwitsch, 6440! 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
8. TRACHYPHRYNIUM, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. iii. 651. 
Sepals free, lanceolate, scariose, strongly nerved. Petals united in 
a tube in the lower half; blade oblong, spreading. Staminodia united 
in a tube at the base; outer lobes obovate; lip broad, obliquely crested 
on the face; staminiferous lobe narrowed, with the 1-celled anther 
adnate to one side. Ovary globose, papillose, 3-celled; cells 1-ovuled ; 
style adnate at the base to the staminal tube, involute, appendiculate 
on the back below the inflexed 2-lobed stigma. Capsule 3-celled or by 
abortion 2-celled, 2-3-valved, strongly muricated. Seed solitary, 
globose or oblong, with a basal aril and horseshoe-shaped embryo.—Tall 
sarmentose branching shrubs, with leafy stems. Inflorescence terminal, 
simple or branched ; rhachis jointed; internodes short; bracts usually 
deciduous. Flowers small, inconspicuous. 
Endemic. 
Valves of fruit acutely angled on the back . ` . 1. T. preussianum. 
Valves of fruit rounded on the back. 
Branches spinous . e > : ` : , 2. T. danckel- 
mannianum. 
Branches unarmed. 
Capsule 4 in. diam S e e ` . . 3. T. braunianum. 
Capsule 134-2 in. diam. 
Bracts 1 in. long . ‘ é x S . 4. T. violaceum. 
Bracts 1} in. long. . e 5. T, poggeanum. 
1. T. preussianum, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 429, fig. N, 
430. Stem tall, woody, shining, stramineous, unarmed; branchlets 
often abruptly deflexed. Leaves oblong, cuspidate, moderately firm, 
glabrous, rounded at the base, 5-6 in. long, 2-24 in. broad; sheaths 
glabrous, 3-4 in. long; thickened free apex of petiole }—} in. long. 
Inflorescence compound ; rhachis glabrous, slightly flexuose ; internodes 
ł in. long; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 1-1} in. long. Flowers white or 
reddish, an inch long. Sepals ovate, acuminate, } in. long. Petals ovate, 
