Raphia.]| ss CXLVII, PALME (WRIGHT). 105 
polished, chestnut-brown, adpressedly ciliate—Kunth, Enum. iii. 217 ; 
Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. B. 16, C0. 131. Raphia pedunculata, P. Beauv. in 
Desv. Journ. Bot. ii. 87, and Fl. Owar. i. 78, t. 44, fig. 2, t. 46, fig. 2. 
Sagus farinifera, Gertn. Fruct. ii. 186, t. 120, fig. 3. Sagus Ruffia, 
Jacq. Fragm. 7, no. 27, t. 4, fig. 2. Sagus pedunculata, Lam. Encycl. 
Suppl. v. 13, and Ill. iii. 357, t. 771, fig. 2.a-g. Metroxylon Ruffia, 
Spreng. Syst. ii. 139. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Taveta, near Kilimanjaro, ex Engler. 
Mozamb. Dist. Pemba Island and Zanzibar, ex Engler. German East 
Africa : on the coast, and Usagara and Usambara regions, ex Engler ; Kilimanjaro 
region; Lake Yipe and Kahe, ex Engler. 
Also in Madagascar, 
2. R. textilis, Welw. Apont. 584. Fruit oval-turbinate, 2} in. 
long, nearly 2 in. thick; scales in 11-14 rows, 11 lin. long, 11-12 lin. 
wide, rather convex at the base, flatter towards the apex and witha 
broad shallow furrow, dark chestnut, acute at the base, darker and 
slightly fimbriate at the margin. Seed oval-turbinate, 2} in. long, 16 
lin. thick ; albumen slightly ruminate.—Syn. Explic. 39; Rendle in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 83. R. Welwitschii, Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 
439, t. 42, fig. B; Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; near rivulets at 1800-2000 ft., and 
120 miles from the coast, Welwitsch, 6666! 6671! and fruit 1054! Barro do 
Dande ; gregarious on the River Dande, Welwitsch, 6663! 
3. R. Monbuttorum, Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111, 180. 
Acaulescent or with a stem up to 5 ft. long. Leaflets irregularly 
arranged, up to 1} in. wide. Male flower: Calyx shortly campanulate, 
—4 as long as the corolla. Corolla-lobes curved, narrowly lanceolate 
trom a linear base, long acuminate, 9-10 lin. long. Stamens 6, adnate 
to the base of the corolla-lobes ; anthers narrowly linear from a sagittate 
base, shorter than the filaments; connective shorter at the back than 
the anther-cells. Female flower scarcely half as long as the male, 
obtuse and broad. Calyx enclosing, and its teeth overtopping, the short 
corolla. Staminodes absent. Young fruit long-pointed from an oval 
=. ia unknown; scales in about 12 rows.—Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Okel (Okale), Schweinfurth, 1738! 
Lakes Albert Edward and Albert Nyanza, ex Engler. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; in the water of the valleys 
near Munza, Schweinfurth, 3357 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Tanganyika, ex Engler. 
4. R. Geertneri, Mann d: Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 437, 
t. 42, fig. D. Spadix laxly branched ; branches slender, the lower 5-7 
m. long, 4 lin. thick. Male flowers 6 lin. long. Petals elliptical. 
Stamens 8; filaments clavate. Female flower: Petals 6 lin. long. 
Staminodes about 8. Fruit elongate- or oval-ellipsoid, 2}—3 in. long, 
1} in. thick, obliquely mucronate; scales in 8-10 rows, slightly emar- 
ginate at the base, 8 lin. long, 8 lin. broad, light chestnut, slightly 
