Phenix. | CXLVII, PALME (WRIGHT), 103 
flower half as long as the corolla, urceolate. Fruit dry, seated on the 
marcescent cup-shaped calyx and corolla; endocarp hard. Seed very 
slightly pointed above, 7 lin. long, 4 lin. broad.—P. dactylifera ? Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 153. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Valley of Ainsaba, near Keren, Steudner, 1540! 
between Keren and Adowa, Steudner, 1511; Hamasen district, Steudner, 1541. 
Abyssinia : Adowa, Schimper, 794! Steudner, 1539. 
3. P. reclinata, Jacq. Fragm. i. 27, t. 24. Stem erect, 3-4 ft. 
high. Leaves 3-5 ft. long, bright green; petiole flat above, slightly 
convex beneath, expanded at the base into a fuscous fibrous sheath ; 
leaflets rigid, lanceolate, acuminate, pungent, the central 1 ft. by 1 in., 
the lowest subspinescent and aggregate, the remainder equidistant, 
midrib with white floccose indumentum on the lower side. Male 
flower lanceolate, acuminate. Female spadix 2 ft. long; branches 6-8 
in. long; peduncle over 1 ft. long, complanate, glabrous. Petals 
fuscous. Drupe cylindric-elliptic, 7-8 lin. long, 4—5 lin. wide at the 
middle, dullred. Seed ovate, 5 lin. long, deeply sulcate; embryo a 
little below the middle.— Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 731; Mart. in Miinch. gel. 
Anzeig. 1838, 638, and Palm. iii. 272, t. 164; Kunth, Enum. iii. 256 ; 
Bece. Malesia, iii. 349; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. B. 13, C. 130; C. H. 
Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 29; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 
App. iii. 33; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 82; Penzig in Atti Congr. 
Bot. Genova, 1892, 363. P. spinosa, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 
437; Mart. in Miinch. gel. Anzeig. 1838, 638, and 1839, 45; Kunth, 
Enum. iii. 256; Kirk in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 234; Benth. in Hook. 
Niger Fl. 526; Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 428; 
J. Braun & K. Schum. in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1889) 148 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 272; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss, ii, App. ii. 51. P. leonensis, Lodd. ex Kunth, Enum. iii. 256. 
P. senegalensis, Van Houtte ex Salomon in Gartenflora, 1884, 305. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 760! South Senegambia, Brunner! 
Sierra Leone, Oldfield! Gold Coast: Aburi Hills, Johnson, 459! Niger Delta : 
banks of the River Nun, Mann, 528! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Aidereso, 4000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1610! Arrot 
Valley, Barario, 4400 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 740! Geleb, 4592 ft., Schweinfurth ! 
near Keren, 6232 ft., Schweinfurth ! Steudner, 1540! Penzig. British Kast Africa : 
Pemba Island, Stuhlmann, 1128 (ex Drude) ; Jur; Genana, near Jur Ghattas, 
Schweinfurth, 1358! Uganda; Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 7352! Stuhlmann, 1800 (ex 
Drude) ; Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
Lower Guinea. Estuary of the Congo, as far as the Isle of Mateba, Dupont, 
Roger. Congo: Masongolo, Burton! Smith! Angola: Pungo Andongo ; plentiful 
on the marshy banks of the Rivers Cuanza, Lombe, &c., and at Sansamanda and 
Mopopo, Welwitsch, 6667! Icolo e Bengo ; between Tantambonda and Quicanda, 
Welwitsch, 6658! Barra do Dande ; plentiful on the banks of the lake and of the 
River Dande, near Bombo, Welwitsch, 6659 | 66598 ! Calumquembo district, Wel- 
witsch, 6672! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lunda; at Muschi Brook, Buchner, 689 
(ex Drude). 
