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directed to the upper aide; pedicels about 1 lin. long, jointed at 

 the apex; tube about 3 lin. long, nearly cylindric, sliglitly 

 inflated at tbe base; lobes 5-6 lin. long, much longer than the 

 tube, sprea ding-recurved, linear, obtuse, whitish-yellow, with a 

 reddish stripe down their middle. — Sanseverinia rorida, Lanza 

 in Bull. Ort. Bot. Giard. Colon. Palermo, vol. ix. p. 208, 



t. 5a, 6a. 



Italian Somaliland. In sandy places on the coast near 

 doxo (Mogadiscio), Macaluso. 



Of this species I have only seen a seedling plant. 



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9. S. zanzibarica, Gerome and Labroy in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 



1903, pp. 170, 172, 173, fig. 19. "Scarcely caulescent. Leaves 

 2-ranked, crowded " (ex Geronte and Lahroy) ; two leaves only 

 have been seen, which are apparently recurved-spreading, thick 

 and very_ rigid, |-1 ft. long (apex not seen), |-1 in. broad, and 

 about i m. thick measured from the bottom of the channel; 

 Imear-lanceolate, shallowly concave down the face, very obtusely 

 and triangularly keeled down the back; dull dark green, over- 

 spread with bluish-grey (from age?) on both sides, with reddish- 

 brown edges to the channel, but without markings. Floivers 

 unknown.— De Wildeman, Notices PI. Utiles du Congo, pp. 625. 

 636, fig. 19. S. Ehrenhergii, Gerome and Labroy in Bull. 

 Hist. Nat. 1903, pp. 169, 173, fig. 18; and De "Wildeman, 



Notices PI. Utiles du Congo, pp. 624-625, fig. 18, not of 

 Schweinfurth. 



Tkopical Africa. Zanzibar or German East Africa, Sacleua I 

 Of this species I have only seen two living leaves from the type 

 plant, sent to Kew from Paris Botanic Garden, from which the 

 above description is made, but I am unable to say if they were 

 the outer leaves of a growth or the fully developed central leaves 

 of an adult plant; they are not described at the original place of 

 publication. 



The plant described and figured as S. Ehrenhergii by Gerome 

 and Labroy is utterly different from that species, and a leaf of it 

 sent to Kew is certainly not distinct from those of S. zanziharica. 

 1 he authors even state that they are alike, but that the supposed 

 A. Ehrenhergii differs from S. zanziharica bv the presence of a 

 furrow on each side of the mid-rib down the back of the leaf. 



merely due to shrinkage from 



most 



species; they are never of specific importance in any of the s^ .^ 



having leaves that are broader than thick. 



10. S. Perrotii, Warlurg in Tropenfianzen, 1901, p. 190, with 

 a tigure Stew, erect, 6-8 in. high, covered bv the bases of the 

 leaves, ^-1 m. thick. Leaves. 8-12 to a growth," 2-ranked, ascend- 

 ing or spreading, the inner of adult flowering plants 3-5 ft. long, 

 with a deep concave-channel as broad as the leaf throughout 

 their length, very obtusely keeled or rounded on the back, slightly 

 compressed about f-1 in. broad and 5-7 lin. thick from the 



tottom 



very 



gradually narrowing to the apex, with hard whitish acute tips 



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