o 



18 



not at all recurved near the base, faintly rough, 2|— 5 ft. long, 

 cjlmdnc or slightly compressed-cylindric, |-li in. thick from 

 front to back and |-1 in. thick from side to side at the base, imme- 

 diately above their 3-5i in. long sheathing portion, gradually 

 tapering thence to a hardened acute whitish point i-1 in. long, 

 the outer sometimes with a very shallow and narrow groove down 

 the inner face, green, or sometimes whitish-green, with distinct 

 transverse bands of darker green, the banding becoming fainter 

 with age; glaucous when exposed to the sun, marked with 

 numerous interrupted and continuous longitudinal dark green or 

 blackish-green lines, of which 4-6 extend nearly to the apex, and 



With anno rjvwrl +1.^ ^r;4-1,„ • .Pi^^ t ^ ^ -i 



O -- ..^t, 



more 



impressed as slight grooves. Flower-stem 2-3 ft. liiL-L, its basal 



V. 



its upper part with a spike-like raceme 1^-2^ ft. long, with 6-6 

 ilowers m each cluster. Bracts H in. long, lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate; bracteoles smaller, all spreading, mem- 

 branous. very_ pale brownish when the Ilowers are expanded. 

 • -T^l 1 ^^ ^ cluster, white or tinted, with reddish pedicels 

 jointed below or sometimes at the middle, with the persistent and 

 deciduous parts each 1-2 lin. long; tube |-1 in. long, slender, 

 4 im. m diam., and before the ovary swells scarcely enlarged 

 at the base; lobes |-| in. long, linear, obtuse, revolute. Hook, 



110, and 1901, p. 192; Morren in Belg." Hort.; Vol. ii.,"p: 274 



fig. 27; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xiv' p. 549 ';' in Kew 



•..f%' ^^?V P- ^' ^?- ^' »^^ in Fl. Trop. Afr., vol. 

 Tn p. dd5; Eudolph m Rev. Hort., 1901, pp. 191-192, fig. 70; 



Uodet.— Leb , Sansev. Gigant. Afr. Orient., p. 14; Gerome and 



Labr^ m Bull. Mm. Hist. Nat., 1903, pp. 169, 173, fig. 16; 



?rf^ fi9?''?.i^°*^^r ^^- '^^'^'' d^ Congo, p. 624 fi|. 16, 

 and pp. 625 631, with fig. ; and Etud. M. Bas-et Mojen Congo, 



Ai;"/o9^^' t 50-51; Volkens in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin! 



Append. 22, p. 52, fig. 21. '^ 



Hook 



Apont. p. 543; Carriere in Rev. Hort., 1861, %p. 447, 449; 

 Monteiro, Angola and the River Congo, vol. i. p^. [5^, 103 ; Hiern 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw., vol. ii. p. 25. a ' ' 



SO^nroT Wldelt" '""^*" Gart.-Zeit, 1887, p. 421, fig. 



rdf.?.'"'* p°^'»n,^'^ '■ Plentiful on sunny hills from Loanda to 

 specimens f ^^^^^^^^e, Welwitsch/37^9 1 and cultivated 



for^'nTkL^ot^s'ttc.^ ''' ''''^" ^^ '' ^^ " ^'^'''' ^^ ^^^ 



in ^he' 7wi^'''T tf^'^'""^ P^''^* ' ^ T>ortion of the original figured 

 -SansevfcZ f, ^,«^^:'".^ ^^ *• ^093. According to Monteiro, 

 re^h^ of ;i 1^'''> T?'' ^' y^'^' V^^^^^^n\ all over the littorr.T 

 rStle tofb?" ; y^P^r^?- ^' ^o^O^fl-ra at about Musserra. 

 specimens of ph7 o^ Ambnz. He, however, collected no dried 

 two s^LL m. I r 'P'v"'' ^^° ^^"'^ '^ '' ^"^''^'^^ ^ore than these 

 var. patula, N. E. Brown (Fig. 5, T^).~Leaves, 3-6 to a 



