Eleis.| CXLIII. PALME (WRIGHT). 125 
1. E. guineensis, Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 280, t. 172, ed. pict. 136, £.257. 
Stem robust, 20-30 ft. high, 1 ft. or more in diam., annulate, and 
bearing the remains of old leaves. Leaves 12 or more in a terminal 
crown, 10-15 ft. long, erecto-patent ; petiole 4 ft. long, widened at the 
base, plano-convex, more or less brownish lepidote, spiny on the mar- 
gins; leaflets 50 or more, 14 ft. or more long, 14-2 in. wide, midrib 
distinct, secondary nerves about 6 on each side. Spadices 8 to many, 
male 4—6 in. long, with many branches bearing densely imbricate 
flowers, female peduncled with the branches congested into a globose 
capitulum. Male flowers : Sepals linear. Petals linear-oblong. Anthers 
linear, subsagittate. Rudiment of ovary minute, white. Female flowers: 
Sepals ovate. Petals glabrous, reddish-brown. Ovary ovoid, sometimes 
angular ; style pyramidal, triquetrous; stigmas large, ovate-lanceolate, 
reflexo-patent.—Mart. Palm. ii. 62, tt. 54, 56, and in Miinch. gel. Anzeig. 
1838, 639, 1839, 46; R. Br. Vermischte Schrift. i. 269; Schum. & Thonn. 
Beskr. Guin, Pl. 439; Tuckey, River Congo, 455; Hook. Niger FI. 
13, 526; Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 424, 439; Kirk in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 231 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 291 ; Giissfeldt 
& Pechuel-Loesche, Die Loango-Exped. i. 56, with fig., 208, 224, with 
fig.; J. Braun in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1889), 148 ; Engl. Pa. 
Ost-Afr. B. 8, C. 131; Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 112; Henriques in 
Bolet. Soc. Brot. v. 206, 218; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 462, 
and Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 274. EH. guineensis, var. macrosperma, Welw. 
Apont. 584; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 84. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Cape Verde, Brunner! Liberia : Cape Palmas, 
Vogel, 65! Lower Niger: foot of Mount Patteh, Vogel. Old Calabar, Milne! 
Fernando Po, Mann ! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile), Schweinfurth. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Moller! French Congo: a short 
distance south of Cape Lopez, Johnston. Congo, Tuckey. Lower Congo: from 
Moussouk to Kinchassa, Dupont ; and without precise locality, Smith, Dupuis, 
Laurent. Angola: Icolo e Bengo; Quifandongo, Welwitsch, fruit, 1057! Bengo 
shore, Welwitsch, fruit, 1060! Barro do Bengo ; plentiful in damp woods on the 
banks of the River Bengo at San Antonio, Welwitsch, 6660! Golungo Alto ; banks 
of the River Delamboa, Welwitsch, 6664! and 1061 (wool from leaf) ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk! Pemba Island, ex Engler ; Tanganyika, 
ex Engler. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; west shore of Lake Nyasa, near 
Sani Hill, Kirk! Fort Hill and Songue, Whyte ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; near Munza (cultivated) 
Schweinfurth, 3349 ! 
Var. microsperma, Welw. Apont. 584, Fruit 14 in. or less long.—Rendle in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 84. : 
Lower Guinea. Angola: banks of the River Bengo, Welwitsch, fruit, 1058! 
Golungo Alto ; everywhere plentiful in woods at Bango, Welwitsch, fruit, 1059! 
Native name, Disombo. 
This is the Oil Palm, and bears the following native names:—In Guinea, 
Tehn-Tio (Schumacher & Thonning); on the Congo, Maba=the fruit, Hmba=a 
single nut, Cachio=a cluster of fruit (Tuckey); in Angola, Dthého, and the 
tomentum of the petiole= Uruco or Urueu ; in the Island of St. Thomas, Denden or 
Palmeira Andim,. 
