106 CXLVII, PALM (WRIGHT). | Raphia. 
fimbriate at the margin. Seed elongate-ellipsoid, acute at either side, 
2-21 in. by 9-11 lin.; albumen with narrow ruminations.—Drude in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. &. vinifera, Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111, not 
Beauv. Sagus Palma-pinus, Gertn. Fruct. i. 27, t. 10, fig. 1. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Berria (Beria), Scott-Elliot, 5002! Fernando 
Po; from the shore to an altitude of 500 ft., Mann! Gold Coast, Cameron ! 
5. R. vinifera, P. Beawv. Fl. Owar. i. 77, t. 44, fig. 1, t. 45, t. 46, 
fig. 2. Stems of medium height. Leaves 6-7 ft. long; leaflets spiny. 
Spadix about 8 ft. long, laxly branched ; lower branches 3-34 ft. long, 
upper 1 ft. long; lower branchlets 8-10 in. long. Stamens 10-12. Female 
flowers usually in the upper part of the spadix. Staminodes about 20. 
Fruit cylindric-ellipsoid, shortly mucronate, 3 in. long, 14—1? in. thick ; 
scales in 8—9 rows, very broad, slightly emarginate at the base, rather 
convex above the base, with a deep groove within the apex, flattened 
at the margin, 9-10 lin. long, 9 lin. wide, greenish, margin slightly 
fimbriate and brownish. Seed 2} in. long, 1 in. thick; albumen with 
narrow ruminations.—Mart. Palm. iii. 216, and in Miinch. gel. Anzeig. 
1838, 639; Hook. Niger Fl. 526; Kirk in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 234; 
Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 437, t. 42, fig. C; J. Braun 
& K. Schum. in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1889) 148; Kew 
Bulletin, 1891, 1; Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111; Durand & Schinz, 
Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 273; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 82. 
Metroxylon viniferum, Spreng. Syst. ii. 139.— Palma conifera ex Guinea, 
C. Bauh. Pinax, 510. Palma vinifera Theveti, C. Bauh. Hist. i. 369. 
Upper Guinea, Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Winterbottom (ex Martius). Niger 
Territory: Oware and Benin; abundant by the sides of rivers, ex P. Beauvois ; 
banks of the Old Calabar River, Mann! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Hens, Demeuse, Laurent, and Dupuis (ex 
Durand & Schinz), Congo, Smith, and Lockhart (ex Martius), Angola : Huilla ; 
Morro de Lopollo, 5200-5800 ft., Welwitsch, 6657 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; hilly regions south of 
Lake Nyasa, Kirk, and without precise locality, Buchanan ! 
_The Bamboo Palm. In the Yoruba language this palm is variously known as 
Igi-oguro, Eriko, and Akpako ; its bass-fibre as Iyo, and the fishing-lines made 
from it as Lyo-oguro and Iyo-agbe, P. Beauvois states that the negroes of Oware 
and Benin call the wine made from the sap of the trunk Bourdon. 
6. R. longiflora, Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 438, 
t. 39, fig. A. and t. 42, fig. E. A palm 40-50 fi. high. Stems czespitose, 
3—4 together, 15 ft. high, 1 ft. thick. Leaves 33 ft. long; petiole 11-12 
ft. long, breaking up at the margins into rigid fibres ; leaflets about 160 
on either side, coriaceous, 5-54 ft. long, 21-21 in. wide, spiny on the 
upper side of the midrib and on the margins near their base, unarmed 
towards the apex; secondary nerves solitary near the margins, promi- 
nent beneath; tertiary nerves 9-10 on either side of the midrib. 
Spadix with thick branches. Male flowers 12-13 lin. long. Stamens 15. 
Female flowers 4—5 near the base of the lower branches. Fruit elongate- 
oval, 3-3} in. long, 16-17 lin. thick, crowned by a long oblique mucro} 
scales in 12 rows, 8 lin. long and wide, very convex, very shallowly 
