336 CXXXV, HÆMODORACEÆ (BAKER). [Sansevieria. 
ves ; facial groove rather deeper than the others; laterals also a 
little deeper than the dorsal. Primordial leaves terete. Flowers 
unknown.—Kew Bulletin, 1887, May, 10 and 3, fig. 7. 
Locality not known with certainty; probably the coast of German East Africa, 
The above description is taken from the living plant at Kew. A plant received from 
Lamu Island, British East Africa, from Mr. R.M. Ormerod in 1896, differs in having 
leaves 13 in. diam. 
12. S. grandicuspis, Haw. Syn. Succ.67. Leaves many toa tuft, 
lanceolate, flat, thicker than in S. guineensis, 9-12 in. long, 1-1} in. 
broad at the middle, slightly channelled down the lower half of the face, 
obscurely mottled, not red on the margin, furnished on the back from 
the top to the bottom with 5-7 distinct vertical grooves, tipped with a 
distinct subulate cusp }-4 in. long. Flowers not seen.— Kunth, Enum. 
v. 20. 
Native country not known. Described from a living plant in the Kew collection, 
March 1896. : 
Dr. Schinz (Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 45) refers doubtfully a plant collected 
by himself in Amboland to S. thyrsiflora, Thunb., which is widely spread in South 
Africa. 
2. CYANASTRUM, Oliv. in Hook, Ic. t. 1965. 
Perianth corolline, with a short tube and 6 equal spreading oblong 
lobes. Stamens 6, all perfect, inserted at the base of the perianth-lobes ; 
filaments filiform ; anthers linear, basifixed, dehiscing by two terminal 
pores. Ovary globose, half inferior, 3-celled; ovules 2 in each cell, 
collateral, erect ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate, faintly 3-lobed. 
Fruit and seeds unknown. 
Endemic, 
1. ©. cordifolium, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. t. 1965. Corm solid, globose, 
4 in. diam. Leaves arising singly from the corm on long petioles, 
cordate-ovate, acute, glabrous, membranous, 3-6 in. long, with arcuate 
main veins arising from the apex of the petiole and reticulated inter- 
mediate veinlets. Peduncle 4-6 in. long, with a laxly sheathing bract- 
leaf from the base and another larger from the middle. Raceme lax, 
2-3-flowered ; pedicels short, erecto-patent ; bracts oblong, membranous, 
persistent. Perianth blue, 4-4 in. long. Stamens rather shorter than 
the perianth ; filaments as long as the anthers. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: interior of Yoruba, Millson, 89! Sent to Kew alive 
by Millen, Cameroons: near the shore, Kalbreyer, 89! Ambas Bay, Mann, 769! : 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1644! Mfoa, Bates, ais 
There are in the Kew Herbarium incomplete specimens of a second species A 
Johnstoni, Baker), collected by Sir H. Johnston in 1889, on the hills between Lakes 
Tanganyika and Nyasa, at an elevation of 5000 feet. Of this the flowers are rather 
larger and about six in a raceme, with deciduous bracts, and the stem has a linear 
membranous bract-leaf at or below the middle, The leaves are said to be ample, and 
the flowers blue. 
