200 



cluster of a rather dingy greenish-wliite, marked with dull 

 brownish -purple slender lines outside ; pedicels about 1 in. long, 

 jointed at or slightly above the middle: tube 8 Vm. Inntr and abmit 



ong, linear, obtuse. Anthers pale green. 

 British East Afeica. Mackinon Ron 



mi 



only a few plants seen, Poivell, d. 



m 



Mr 



Although nearly allied to S. caulescens and resembling it in 

 appearance, it is easily distinguished by the channel of the leaves 

 being as broad as the full width of the leaf and by its paniculate 

 (not spike-hke) inflorescence. 



+ 



4. S. caulescens, iV. E. Brown (Fig. 2). Stem of the only 

 plant seen _erect, 2 ft. high, but perhaps irrowlna- taller, branch- 



out. 



com 



ranked, spreading and slightly recurved, .slightly rough, li-2| 

 It long, 3-li m. broad, and i-| in. thick, measured from the 

 bottom o± the channel at the base, gradually tapering thence in 



maimer 



becomes 



not very hard, with a channel down the face always much 

 narrower (except at the base) than the breadth of the leaf, extend- 

 ing nearly to the apex, broad and deeply concave at the base, 

 gradually narrowing and becoming more shallow (but not acute) 

 towards the apex, having acute and at first whitish-green, finally 



becom 



or less obliterated with age, also marked on the very convex 

 Dack with a-1^ darker green continuous or interrupted longi- 

 tudinal lines some of which, with age, become impressed and 

 form slight furrows. Flower-stem 2-2^ ft. long, unbranched, 



cuminate 



part and a spike-like raceme of flower-clusters at the upper two 

 thirds, glabrous, fuscous. Bracts very small, inconspicuous. 

 /Wer^ 6 12 in a cluster, whitish; pedicels 31-41 lin.long, 

 lomted 5-11 Im above ^^^ ^^^^^ horizontally spreading, with the 

 flower abruptly directed upwards; tube 7 lih. long, nearly 1 lin. 



diameter, very __. „_ *^x..«i^vi 

 linear, obtuse. ° *' """"'^'"^ " 



British East Africa. Without 



lobes 9 lin. long. 



from Nairobi witbout a 



Mr. fowell m 1006. It flowprprl «f tt^^ ;,. t»t„„ mio ttut. 



May, 1913. W 



somew 



+^i^+ u ^ Ml — , '^vj^cvviirti simimr o. aroorescens, su 



ktter'*sp«Te,''gT"^ '"' " '■''"™ °f ao Taru district, where the 



