Tas. 6026. 
ZAMIOCULCAS Borvintt. 
Native of Eastern Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. AromtrEx.—Tribe OronrTIEx. 
Genus Zamiocucas, Schott ; (Dene. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xvii. p. 321). 
ZAMIOCULCAS Boiviniti ; foliis 3-ternatim  sectis, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis 
acuminatis sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis, petiolo tereti medio nodoso- 
Incrassato, pedunculo gracili, spathe lamina lanceolata acuminata intus 
pallide straminea, extus luride viridi lineolis fuscis creberrime striolata. 
Zamiocueas Boivinii, Dene. 1. c. p- 322. 
When last year I figured in this Magazine the curious 
4. Loddigesii (Tab. 5985), and called attention to the fact of 
i species with bipinnate leaves having been described by my 
friend M. Decaisne, I little expected that living specimens of 
this were then actually on their way to Kew from its inde- 
fatigable correspondent Dr. Kirk, H.B.M. Vice-Consul at 
Zanzibar, who procured them from the coast opposite to that 
island. Further, on referring to the Herbarium, I find 
under the genus Axzchomanes dried specimens of this same 
Zamioculeas, collected by Dr. Kirk himself, when accom- 
panying Dr. Livingstone on his second expedition, in 1861, 
on the banks of the Shire river, opposite to the rapids of 
Zedzani. As a species this differs widely in habit from Z. 
Loddigesii, bearing apparently only a single leaf, whose 
petiole is not so remarkably clavate at the base, though 
similarly swollen into a node at the middle; the peduncle 
is very much longer and more slender, the spathe much larger, 
longer, and more lanceolate, and the spadix of a very diffe- 
rent form ; the filaments also are different, the anthers open 
by pores, the ovary has a distinct style, and lastly, instead 
of being all over pure bright green, the peduncles, petioles, 
and spathe externally of Z Boivinii are of a lurid green, 
APRIL Ist, 1873, 
