320 CXXXIV. SCITAMINEH (BAKER). |Zrachyphrynium. 
4. T. violaceum, Ridley in Journ. Bot. 1887, 133. Stem tall, 
woody, sarmentose ` branches unarmed. Leaves papyraceous, ovate- 
oblong, cuspidate, glaucous-green, reaching 8 in. long, 3 in. broad, 
rounded or subcordate at the base; sheath 4 in. long; free thickened 
apex of petiole 1 in. long. Inflorescence branched ; branches abruptly 
flexuose, 5-6 in. long; bracts oblong, 1 in.long. Flowers violet-purple. 
Sepals lanceolate, 4 in. long. Petals lanceolate, acuminate, connate in 
the lower half, longer than the staminodia. Capsule densely muricate, 
l4 in. diam. Seeds subglobose. 
Lower Guinea, Angola: Pungo Andongo; Mutollo, in woods, and within the 
fortifications in Barrancos de Catete, Welwitsch, 6441! Golungo Alto: woods of 
Sobati Galanga, Welwitsch, 64418 ! 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
5. T. poggeanum, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 429, figs. B-E, 
431. A shrub 10-15 ft. high, with unarmed sarmentose branches 
and often geniculate branchlets. Leaves oblong, cuspidate, moderately 
firm, glabrotis, 6-8 in. long, about 3 in. broad, rounded at the base; 
sheaths 5-6 in. long ; thickened apex of the petiole very short. Inflor- 
escence branched ; rhachis flexuose ; internodes about } in. long ; bracts 
oblong-lanceolate, 14 in. long. Flowers purple. Sepals acuminate, 
glabrous, 4 in. long. Staminodia twice as long as the calyx. Capsule 
2-3-lobed, densely echinate, 14-2 in. diam. ; valves rounded on the back. 
oe aaa Guinea. Cameroons: Buea, Preuss, 873, 8738. Fernando Po, Mann, 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Pogge, 1445, 1458. 
Iinperfectly known Species. 
5 T. spinulosum, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. ii. 1233 (name 
only). 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon River, near Libreville, Klaine, 70. 
W T. muricatum, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. ii. 1233 (name 
only). 
Lower Guinea, Gaboon River, near Libreville, Klaine, 159. 
9. THAUMATOCOCCUS, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 
652. 
Sepals 3, free, lanceolate. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; lobes 
3, oblong, subequal. Staminodia united in a tube at the base; lip 
broad, undulate ; staminiferous lobe narrow, with the 1-celled anther 
adnate to one side. Ovary 3-celled; cells 1-ovuled ; style stout, adnate 
to the staminal tube at the base, hooked at the apex ` stigma obliquely 
thickened and appendiculate at the back. Fruit trigonous, winged at 
the angles, thick, fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds solitary, erect, oblong, with 
a large aril; embryo horseshoe-shaped.—Rootstock wide-creeping- 
Leaves long-petioled. Spikes springing from the rhizome close to the 
leafy stems; flowers small, inconspicuous, two to each bract. 
An endemic genus of one species. 
