Raphia. | CXLVII. PALME (WRIGHT). 107 
furrowed, obtuse (rarely slightly emarginate) at the base, almost entire 
at the margins. Seed long ellipsoid, 24 in. long, 11 lin. thick ; albumen 
with narrow ruminations.—Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: River Volta, Rumsey, 6! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Gaboon: Corisco Island, Mann, 1910! 
7. R. Hookeri, Vann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 438, 
t. 39, fig. B, t. 42, fig. A. Stem about 30 ft. high, 1 ft. thick. Leaves 
about 40 ft. long; petiole 10-12 ft. long, breaking up at the edges into 
curved pendulous fibres; leaflets about 200 on each side, rather rigid, 
4-5 ft. long, 12-2 in. wide, spiny on the upper side of the midrib 
towards the base and apex and on the keel, glaucous beneath. Spadices 
in pairs, rarely solitary, from the upper part of the stem, pendulous, 
densely and compactly branched, slightly glaucous; primary branches 
about 60; branchlets rigid, the lower 10-11 in. long. Male flowers 
9 lin. long. Stamens 16. Female flowers 9-12 at the base of the 
lower branches. Fruit oval-ellipsoid, 33-4 in. long, 13-2 in. thick, 
obliquely long mucronate; scales in 12-15 rows, 9 lin. by 8 lin., very 
slightly sulcate, chestnut or cinnamon, obtuse at the base, almost entire. 
Seed 24-3 in. by 13-15 lin.; albumen narrowly ruminate.—Drude in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar and Cameroons, in humid places along the coast, 
Mann, 1911! also cultivated. 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Gaboon: Corisco Island, Mann, 1911! 
The Wine Palm. Native name, Ukot. 
Imperfectly known species. 
8. R. angolensis, Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 83. Fruit 
larger than in R. longiflora, and longer in proportion to its breadth, 
43 in. by 1} in ; scales almost square, light brown, getting darker 
towards the blunt base, the largest rather more than 9 lin. each way. 
Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, blunt and almost flat at the apex, tapering 
very gradually from above the middle to the base; embryo 4 the way 
from the apex; rumination similar in character to that of 2. longiflora, 
but not so copious. 
Lower Guinea. Angola; without precise locality, Welwitsch ! 
9. R. maxima, Pechwel-Loesche, Loango-Exped. iii. 164 ; Drude in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 128; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 83. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Loango, Pechuel-Loesche. 
Drude suggests that this (which has not been described) may be synonymous with 
R. Hookeri. 
6. CALAMUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 931. 
Male flower: Calyx cupular, trifid. Petals 3, free or connate at 
the base, oblong or lanceolate, acute, valvate. Stamens 6, inserted at 
the base or throat of the corolla; filaments short, free or connate 
at the base; anthers linear, sagittate or oblong, dorsifixed. Rudiment 
