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like raceme of flowers on the upper part. Bracts about | in. 

 long, ovate, acutely pointed, membranous. Flowers y 3 in a cluster 

 at the lower i)art, solitary at the top of the rnceine, or occasionally 

 in weak specimens all solitary, suborcct ; pedicels |-f Im. lonj,s 

 much shorter than tlie bracts', jointed at the apex to the flower, 

 with no deciduous part; tube nearly or quite 1 in. long, 

 slender, -| lin. in diam., slightly swollen at the base, white, 

 tinged with green on the basal part; lobes f in. long, linear, 

 sliglitly broadening upwards, obtuse, white. S. Scltimperi, Baker 

 in Fl. Trop. Apr., vol. vii., p. 335. S. sulcata, 13uker, in Kew 

 Bulletin, Mav, 1887, p. 10, as to living plant and fig. 7 on 

 p. 3; and Fl.^Trop. Apr., vol. vii., p. 335, Godef.-Lcb,, Sansev. 

 Gigant, Apr, Orient., p. 16; Gerome & Labr. in Bull. Mus. Ilist. 

 Nat., 1903, pp. 169 and 173, tig. 17; De Wildenian, ]S"otices 



VL Utiles du Congo, p. 624, fig. 17 and pp. 625, 631, Avith fig.; 



not of Bojer. 



SoMALiLAND. SUicel The country of the original plant is 



unknown, but it was sent from Ihe Isle of Bourbon to the Paris 

 Exhibition in 1855 and has since been cultivated In the Jardin 



des Plantes, Paris. 



This very distinct species is easily recognised by its usually 

 solitary leaves and insignificant inflorescence. Described from 

 living plants, one of which was received from Paris Botanic 

 Garden as being typical S. canaliculata . Car. ; other plants of 

 it have been cultivated at Kew for 40 jears or more, and one 

 is the type of S, Schimpen, Baker, whicli was sent by Lieut. -Col. 

 E, V. Stace in June, 1802; it is vstill in cultivation at Kew, and 

 diSers in no waj- from typical S, canalicvlata, but the specimen 

 qiioted under S. Schimperi in the Flora of Tropical Africa, a"o1. 

 vii, p. 335, as sent from Somaliland by MacConkey, is quite 

 a different plant, with tufted leaves, and to my personal know- 

 ledge is not the plant from which any part of the description of 

 5. Schimperi was made, but, being supposed to be the same, the 

 collector's name was merely added to the manuscript; the speci- 

 men, however, is too incomplete for identification. 



25. S. lanuginosa, Wild. Sp. PI. vol. ii p. IGO. — Slemless. 



RooUtock creeping, vstout, with a reddish skin. Leaves about 

 3-4 to a growth, l|-3 ft. long and apparently about 8-9 lin. 

 broad and 3 lin. thick, rigidly erect, concavely semiterete, thick 

 and Heshy, with a concave channel nearly- or quite as broad as the 

 leaf down the face and with several yrooAes down tlie back and 



t to 



ooves). 



, shortly sheathing at the base, tapering at the upper par 

 icute point ; green, with '' woolly '^ { ?) veins (groov 



sides 

 an acut 



Floirrr-siem about 2 ft, high, with 2-3 small ovate acute 

 sheaths on t]io lower part and a raceme of flower-clusters at the 

 upper part. Bracts neither described nor figured. Flowers 2-3 

 (according to description, but according to the figure 2-5) in 

 a cluster; pedicels about 2 lin. long; tube (according to the 

 figure) 4-5 lin. long, slightly inflated at the base; lobes 

 6-T lin, long, white. Berries globose, or of 2-3 globose 

 lobes, 1-3 seeded, pale green (ex Ehede, but perhaps immature. 

 Sprengel, Syst. Veg. vol, ii. p. 93; Schultes, Syst. Veg. voL 



