198 



4-le in. long, tlie upper gradually smaller; bracts under the 

 llower-clusters ^yi in. long, lanceolate, acute, membranous, 

 wiiite Flowers in clusters of 2-4, laxly scattered alon? the 



mi 



branches; pedicels in fruit 



il " , , * ■ "'""to J I •-'J.Ai.*.vy\_*. c4 I; irXXC XlXi.U.U.lC, Willi 



the persistent part i-f in. long; tube i in. long, l lin. in diam.; 



lobes rather more than i m. long, narrowly linear, obtuse. 



German East Africa. Near Bagamoyo, Saclenx, 6T2 ! 



According to Sacleux this is called Mlwngc douine by the 



meanin 



Demg applied to a useless kind and female to kinds of which they 

 make some use. Described from a dried specimen in the Paris 



Hl«^ I\i5+ IQAQ ,r^l :^ f^ri t^r, -,^c^ ^ K^ ,« _ 



D) 5^67/^ erect, 3-4 ft. high, f-1 in. thick, terele, leafy through- 

 out. Leaves directed all ^yays, not in 2 rows, very spreading or 

 recurving, and n^nnlKr cli'«.i.+u. +^.:.j-^j 'xi. b 1^0 •_ i^_ __ 



|-lf in. broad, ^ 





y 



■ + I " . - -^^"-"v ^^"^^^-■I'iii'^euiaLe, acuie,witn astoutsuouiate 

 point 3-1 in. long, which is green below, and hardened into a pale 

 prown pungent s^me at the apex, scarcely or but slightly narrow- 

 ing to the sheathing base, basal part often (more rarely the whole 

 leal) channelled, upper part slightly concave to nearly flat above, 

 AMtn slightly recurved more or less wavy margins, grass-greon, 

 entirely without markings on both sides, with hardened whitish 

 or reddish edges i lin. broad. Floivers unknown— De Wildeman. 



JNotices PI. Utiles du Congo, pp. 624-625, fig. 20. 



British East Africa : Taiu desert or jungle, very common ; 



Powell, 4 f Eabai H 



Also stated by 



Jerome and Labrov to have been sent from Zanzibar to Paris 

 liotanic Garden by Sacleux. 



Described from a living plant cultivated at Kew. 



more?) ft high, 1 m. thick, cylindric, leafy throughout or 

 naked, and marked with ring-like scars for a few inches at the 

 base. I^eaves m two more or less spirally-twisted ranks, spread- 

 'J!?'. 1^ *.V rf^"^"'^^' ^"^^ often curved to one side, or slightly 



aoout 2 in thick (measuring from ihe bottom of the channel) 

 .lust above the shortly clasping base, thence gradually tapering in 

 a straight line to a hard pale brown very acute spine-like point, 

 and with a concave channel down the face as broad as the leaf, 

 extending nearly to the terete apex, bordered by an exceedingly 

 narrow red-brown line edged with white, very convex on the back, 

 but not at all keeled, at first uniformly somewhat grass-green, 

 ^ithout markings faintly glaucous, becoming dark bluish green 

 ^lUi age. Pamcle m the specimen seen about 18 in. long, with 

 ascending-spreading branches 4-6 in. long. Bracts very small, 



mmut 



the fleshy part exudes a drop of sweet nectar. Flowers, 4 6 in a 



