122 CXLVII. PALME (WRIGHT). [ Hyphene. 
plano-convex, slightly concave on the upper side near the base, with 
dark brown, usually sharply curved, spines on the margins, the lower 
spines as well as the petiole margins densely covered with fuscous floccose 
tomentum ; ligule oblique, irregularly spiny toothed, acuminate ; rhachis 
about 30 in. long, produced beyond the centre of the leaf, slightly 
toothed above the base; lamina cut 3 its length into about 75 lobes, 
slightly floccose on the nerves near the base, with long filaments between 
the lobes. Male inflorescence racemose; branches bearing near their 
apices 2-3 cylindrical spikes 34—5 in. long, 5 lin. thick ; bracts cylin- 
drical, oblique, long acuminate, with floccose tomentum on the back 
near the apex ; bracteoles widely cochleariform, truncate, pilose on the 
back. Calyx turbinate, membranous, | lin. or rather more long, 3-lobed. 
Corolla 3-partite ; lobes ovate or obovate, acute, | lin. long, } lin. broad. 
Stamens 6; filaments subulate, } lin. long; anthers sagittate, dorsifixed 
below the centre, 1 lin. long. Female inflorescence racemose, about 
27 in. long; branches 4-5, each bearing a single cylindrical spike; 
bracts cylindrical, oblique, acuminate or acute; bracteoles widely coch- 
leariform, truncate. Flowers unknown. Fruit on a subcylindrical 
pedicel about 3 lin. long, oblique at the base, flattened and slightly 
impressed above, 2# in. long, 1-2 in. in diam.; endocarp woody; pericarp 
at the side 2 lin. thick, at the apex and base 4 lin. thick ; foramen about 
5 lin. in diam. Seed 16 lin. long, 11 lin. in diam. ; albumen ovate, bony, 
enclosing an ovate cavity ; embryo turbinate, near the apex of the seed. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: between Khutu and Uhehe, on the 
eastern slope of the Vidunda Mountains, by the Ruaha River, on waste ground in 
moist grey soil, 1640 ft., Goetze, 413. 
7. H. ventricosa, Kirk in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 235, ‘ Known 
from other species by its loftier stem, swollen in the middle; ligule 
unilateral; fruit spherical, surrounded by a considerable quantity of 
farinaceous matter, and larger than that of H. coriacea or H. crinita. 
—Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 1881, 93; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 130; Drude in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 110; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 34; 
Gard. Chron. 1884, xxi. 649, fig. 126; Dinter in Gard. Chron. 1900, 
xxviii, 372, and in Gartenfl. 1901, 176. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, ex Johnston. German South-west Africa : Damara- 
land, Dinter ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: Victoria Falls, on the Zambesi River, and believed 
to extend southwards to Lake Ngami, ex Kirk, 
** Called Mokolwana by the Makololo,” Kirk. 
Dinter states (l.c.) that this species occurs abundantly south of Grootfontein, out- 
side the tropic. 
Imperfectly known species. : 
8. H. aurantiaca, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 355. Fruit 
ovate, slightly impressed above, not oblique at the base, faintly keeled 
on one side, about 22 in. long, 2 in. in diam. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: extending from Langenburg to Lake 
Rukwa, Goetze. 
This is said to differ from H. Goetzei, Dammer, in the shape of the fruit, which 
has a bloom on the ripe endocarp, and the shape of the seed, 
