204 



above the middle, with the deciduous part thickened upwards. 



lobes 5| 



long, 



diam 



6 lin. long, linear, obtuse, not widely spreading and but 

 slightly revolute. 



Beitish Somaliland. Airs. LoH PhilUpsl 



Described from a living plant which flowered at Kew, January, 



1912, originally received in 1900 from 



Cambridsre 



Botanic 



ixarden, where it was introduced from Somaliland by Mrs. Lort 

 Phillips. -^ 



S. graciris, N. E. Brown in Kew Bulletin, 1911, p. 96 (Fig^ 



Hem 1-3 m. hiffh, hidden bv the leaf.sTiPafL= T.T.^rl,,.;^„ 



by the leaf-sheaths, producing 



above the ground lateral procumbent and s%htly ascending- 



S. gracilis, N.E.Br. Plant 



Fig. 4. 



^„4. • -r. ™ ^ "**• size : 



nat. size ; B, flower, not fully open, nat. 



showing the minute tubercules at 



cultivated at Kew. 



A, section at middle of leaf^ 



size ; C, part of tube of flower, 



base, enlarge<l. From the type 



spread 



branches 



1 



2 



adnressp^ nvo+^ ' "^ '^ !*" ^"""l^ ^^'^ ^ ^"- *^^ck, covered with 

 i 1 in lir nl T\ T^^ ^^^ somewhat spine-pointed sheaths 

 ' re^^t^il \'f *^' ''PI^'" gradually pass into the leaves, at 



reen with white margins, withering to white. Leaves 8ll2 



1 



3 



green 



