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whatever between it and S. Stuckyi, the outlines of sections of 

 leaves of tlie two supposed species given by Godefroy-Lebeuf are 

 evidently very crude and inaccurate. All the difference they 

 show in diameter, number of grooves, and form of the channel 

 can, in many species, often be found in different leaves taken 

 from the same growth, I have no hesitation whatever in con- 

 sidering them to belong to the same species. 



Messi-s. Gerome & Labroy, when waiting their account of 

 Sansevieria, asked Mr. Godefroy-Lebeuf for information con- 

 cerning >S. SfucJcyi and S. Andradae, and according to their state- 

 ments in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, vol. ix, pp. 171, 175, 

 they received from Mr. Godefroy-Lebeuf a portion of a leaf of 

 S. Stuckyi, with the statement that it came from the region of 

 Bena, and a piece of the rootstock of S. Andradae, without roots, 

 buds or shoots, said to be from the region of Enhanibara. The 

 piece of leaf of S. Stuckyi, agreed with the larger sectional figure 

 given by Godefroy-Lebeuf, and together with the piece of root- 

 stock of S. Andradae, were sent to be propagated m the Jardin 

 des Plantes. From them young plants were raised, one of which, 

 raised from the leaf of S. Stvckyi, w^1s sent to Kew', from which 

 the juvenile state is above described. Plants raised from the 

 rootstock of S. Andradae I ha\e not seen. 



_ In 1910 Mr. J. Medley "Wood sent a living plant from Durban 

 Botanic Garden, Natal, to Kew of what is evidentlv the adult 

 state of S. SfucJcyi, and exactlv agreeing with the Boror plant 

 figured by De Wildeman on t. 32 of the work above quoted. 

 Mr. A\ood informs me that the plant was sent to him in 1892 

 from Zanzibar by Dr. Murray, who was then residing there, with 

 the information that the plant was one that had been discovered 

 by Sir John Eirk, and that it has never flowered during the 18 

 years it has been in cultivation at Durban. De Wildeman (Pi. 

 Utiles de la Flore du Congo, p. G23) states that S. Stuckyi and 

 S. Andradae are natives of Abyssinia and Somaliland, but I can 

 find no evidence of this being their native countrv, and believe 

 that statement to be founded upon an error. 



22 S. singularis, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1911, p. 97. 

 Memless. Rootstock creeping, up to If in. thick. Leaves 

 solitary, erect, rigid, slightly rough, 11-8 ft. long, f-lf in. 

 thick at the base, cylmdric, slightly tapering u])wards until near 

 the apex, which shortly narrows to a stout acute whitish point, 

 when young, with one concave channel 11-3 lin. broad and 

 I-J2 Im. deep down the face and 4-6 longitudinal impressed lines 

 on the sides and back, which deepen into furrows with age, dull 

 greyish- or bluish-green, often with a brownish tint or perhaps 

 entirely brownish when mature, slightlv subglaucous, rather 

 brighter when young and then marked with numerous closely- 

 placed transverse pale greeii bands, which nearlv or quite dis- 

 appear with age. Flowers unknown. 



BRiTisn East Africa. Rather common at Yoi, growing in 

 large clumps, PoiveJl, 2 ! scarce at Mwatate, Powell, 10 ! by the 

 river at mile 150-200 Tow. ^on! 



Described from living plants cultivated at Kew. In a letter 

 dated Doc. 5, 1905, accompanied with a sketch, Mr. II. B. Dooner 



