118 CXLVII. PALM (WRIGHT). | Borrassus. 
Guin. Pl. 443; R. Br. Vermischte Schriften, i. 269; Kirk in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 232. B. ethiopum, Mart. in Miinch. gel. Anzeig. 1838, 
639, and 1839, 46, and Palm. iii. 220; Hook. Niger Fl. 526; Speke, 
Nile, Append. 651; Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 439; 
Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Bot. v. 206; J. Braun in Mitth. Deutsch. 
Schutzgeb. ii. (1889), 147. 
Upper Guinea. Senezg:l, Ronn. Senegambia, Brunner! Gorea (Goree), 
Dollinger. Gambia, Adanson. Gold Coast: River Volta, Isert ; Accra, Hort. 
Sander.! Ashanti, Thonning, Afzelius. Benin, ex Martius. Niger Territory : 
Nupe, Barter, 792! Isolated on the coast, Mann. Cameroons, ex Braun. 
Wile Land. British East Africa : “ Very few about the equator, plentiful in 
the Shiluk country ” (bordering the White Nile), ex Speke & Grant, 71. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Kasai River, Buchner (ex Drude). 
Lower Guinea. {sland of St. Thomas, ex Henriques. Lower Congo, Naum, 
Laurent. Congo, ex Brown. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: in the Unyamwezi district, ex Speke 
¥ Grant. Makutu Steppe, between Khutu and Uhehe districts, Goetze ; Khutu 5 
Kisaki Steppe, amongst hills not far from Msoro (River) and Msengere, Goetze. 
Native names, Vjye-Tjo, ex Schumacher & Thonning. Deleb Palm, M’vooma. In 
Unyamwezi district the young ones are called “ Meelalla,” and the leaves furnish 
thatch, rope, sieves, fences, firewood, and flageolet reeds, the roots are boiled and 
eaten in times of famine, and a sweet insipid toddy is extracted, whilst on the Nile 
the leaves are made into strong white baskets and mats for markets, according to 
Speke & Grant. 
1l. HYPHANE, Gertn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 940. 
Male flowers: Sepals linear-oblong, imbricate, connate at the base. 
Petals broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, imbricate, connate at the base 
into a short stalk. Stamens 6; filaments short, subulate ; anthers 
linear, inserted at the bifid base. Rudiment of ovary none. Female 
flowers larger than the male, very shortly pedicellate. Sepals 3, ovate- 
orbicular, obtuse, imbricate. Petals a little smaller than the sepals, 
broadly ovate, obtuse, imbricate. Staminodes 3, connate into a mem- 
branous ring. Ovary subglobose, obscurely 3-lobed, 3-celled ; stigmas 3, 
minute, sessile, terminal, at length excentric; ovule attached by a broad 
base to the side of the cell. Fruit sessile or stalked, terete or obscurely 
lobed, often flat or intruded at the base and apex, 1-celled; stigma 
basal; pericarp fibrous, with a shining epidermis; endocarp woody, 
fleshy inside. Seed adnate to the endocarp, erect, ovoid or obovoid, 
intruded at the base; testa very hard; fuscous; raphe reticulately 
branched ; albumen homogeneous, hollow; embryo apical.— Unarmed 
except for the spines on the petioles. Stem cylindrical or ventricose, 
simple or dichotomously branched. Leaves in a terminal crown, 
orbicular or flabellate; segments ensiform; petiole concavo-convex, 
plano-convex or more rarely bi-convex; sheath short, open ; ligule oblique 
or equilateral. Spathes cylindrical, incomplete; spadices dicecious, 
male and female similar; spadix-branches alternate; flower-bearing 
