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Sansevieria, | CXXXV. HÆMODORACEÆ (BAKER). 333 
4-1 in. long ; lobes rather longer than the tube. Style finally shortly 
exserted.—Giirke in Engl, Pf. Ost-Afr, B. 367, t. 5, fig. J. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Banks of the White Nile in a wood, 
Petherick ! Mittu: near Mvolo, Schweinfurth, 3834! 
3. S. guineensis, Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 159. Rootstock wide- 
creeping, as thick as a man’s finger. Leaves 3-6 to a node, lanceolate, 
nearly flat above the base, 3—4 ft. long, 24-5 in. broad at the middle, 
more or less distinctly mottled with white, sometimes bordered with a 
thin line of red within the white edge. Peduncle 1-1} ft. long, with 
3-4 scariose bract-leaves. Raceme dense, 14-2 ft. long, about 3 in. 
diam. ; flowers 3-6 in a cluster; bracts small, oblong-lanceolate ; pedicels 
ZA in. long, articulated at the middle. Perianth 14-2 in, long, white, 
tinged with green or brown; lobes as long as the tube. Stamens as 
long as the perianth-lobes. Style finally much exserted.—Gawl. in 
Bot. Mag. t. 479; Red. Lil. t. 330; Kunth, Enum. v. 16; Baker in 
Journ, Linn. Soc. xiv. 547; Kew Bulletin, 1887, May, 5 and 8, fig. 1; 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 79; Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 
144, t. 5, figs. A-F. Aletris hyacinthoides, var. guineensis, Linn. Sp. 
Plant. ed. 2, 456. Aletris guineensis, Jacq. Hort. Vind. i. 36, t. 84. 
Acyntha guineensis, Medic. Theod. 76. - 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Sugarloaf Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 3980! on 
rocks by the River Scarcies at Sasseni, Scott-Elliot, 4532! and without precise 
locality, Afzelius! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1508! Fernando Po, Barter, 
2060 ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Saganeiti, 6500 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 1270! 
Moged Valley, Schweinfurth d Riva, 1609! near Acrour, Schweinfurth & Riva, 
1763! Keren, Steudner, 475! Beccari, 198! Somaliland: Golis Range, Mrs. Lort 
Phillips! British East Africa: Jur; Seriba Agad, Schweinfurth, 1658! Jur 
Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1883! Madi, Speke & Grant, 526! Rabai Hills, near 
Mombasa, Taylor ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Laurent ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Zanguebar, Stewart! Portuguese 
East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; between Shiramba and Shigogo, Kirk, 178! 
Now widely cultivated throughout the Tropics. For an account of the uses of this 
and the other species, see Kew Bulletin, 1887, May, and Giirke in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. 
B. 364-368. S. letevirens, glauca and polyphylla of Haworth are probably garden 
forms of this species. 
4. S. bracteata, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, i. 253. Leaves 
oblanceolate, flat, rigidly coriaceous, 1-2 ft. long, 2-2} in. broad above 
the middle, narrowed gradually to a concave base, furnished with a 
distinct red margin. Peduncle 1-1} ft. long, furnished with scariose 
ovate erect amplexicaul bract-leaves, the lower 3-4 in. long. Raceme 
dense, simple, 2-6 in. long; bracts oblong-lanceolate, scariose, | 3-1 in. 
long; pedicels very short, densely fascicled. Perianth white, 24-3 in. 
long ; lobes under 1 in. long. Style and stamens not exserted. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in rather dry rocky soil at a con- 
siderable elevation, Welwitsch, 3750! 3751! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Uluguru? Stuhlmann ! 
