Sansevieria. | ` CXXXV. HEMODORACEE (BAKER). 335 
spreading acute edges, with a narrow line of red-brown and white. 
Peduncle with panicle 5-6 ft. long. Inflorescence a deltoid panicle 
with many ascending branches; flowers many in a cluster; pedicels 
ZA in. long, articulated at the apex; bracts minute, deltoid, mem- 
branous. Perianth 4—3 in. long, white, tinged with red; lobes longer 
than the tube. Stamens as long as the perianth-lobes. Style finally 
exserted.—Schweinf. in Bull. Herb.” Boiss. ii., App. ii. 78; Oliv. in 
Hook. Ic. t. 2269; Engl. Ef. Ost-Afr. O. 144, t. 6. 
Nile Land. Nubia: between Atbara and the Red Sea, Schweinfurth, 31! 
‘Eritrea: Mount Alamkale, near Aidereso, Schweinfurth & Riva, 1468! Aidereso, 
Schweinfurth & Riva, 1835! Somaliland, Stace ! 
Also Arabia, in the province of Yemen, described as a doubtful Dracena by 
Deflers (Voy. Yemen, 211). 
For information as to its uses, see Kew Bulletin, 1892, 129, and Schweinf. Pianti 
utili dell’ Eritrea, 30. 
9. S. Schimperi, Baker. Leaves subcylindrical, very rigid, with 
a clasping ovate base, 3 ft. long, 4—3 in. diam., narrowed gradually to 
the apex, with a small rounded groove down the face, and fine smaller 
grooves down the back and sides, the spaces between the grooves 
rounded. Inflorescence and perianth unknown. Intermediate between 
S. cylindrica and S. Ehrenbergii. 
Wile Land. Somaliland, Stace! MacConkey ! 
10. S. cylindrica, Bojer, Hort. Maurit. 349 (name only). Rootstock 
wide-creeping, as thick as a man’s finger. Leaves 3-5 to a node, 
terete, with an ovate concave clasping base, reaching sometimes a 
length of 5-6 ft., about 1 in. in diam. at the middle, narrowed 
gradually to the point, marked with about five vertical grooves. Pri- 
mordial leaves flat. Peduncle 1-1} ft. long. Raceme moderately dense, 
1}-2 ft. long; bracts minute, scariose; flowers many in a cluster; 
pedicels very short, articulated at the middle. Perianth white, 1-1} in. 
long; lobes as long as the slender tube. Stamens as long as the 
perianth-lobes. Style shortly exserted.—Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 5098 ; 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 549; Kew Bulletin, 1887, May, 9 and 
3, fig. 6; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii, App. ii. 77; Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 144, t. 5, fig. P. „S. angolensis, Welw. ex Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. xiv. 549. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: below Geleb on the Upper Lawa River, 5200 ft. 
Schweinfurth, 1833, 1886 ; Arbaroba, 5800 ft., Schweinfurth, 830. Aidereso, 4000 ft., 
Schweinfurth, 1468. British East Africa: Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Laurent! Angola, Welwitsch, 3749! Ambo- 
land, Schinz, 1009 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Matabeleland: Mangwe River, Bains ! 
11. S. sulcata, Bojer ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 549 
(in syn.). Leaves few to a tuft, terete, 2-3 ft. long, nearly 1 in. 
diam. at the middle, dull green, not mottled, tapering gradually to an 
almost pungent point, marked from the apex to the base with 5 distinct 
