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vol. V. p._ 18; Yoigt, Hoit. Subiiib. Calcutt, p. 65G ; Baker in. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xiv. p. 549; Hooker, Tl. Brit. lud., 

 vol. vi., p. 271; Geromo and Labroy iu Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat, 

 1903, pp. 172^173, fig. 12; De AYildeuian, Notices PI. Utiles 

 dn Congo, pp. 624-625, fig. 12, and p. 631; ,S'. zeyJanica, Eoxb. 

 PI. Corom., vol. ii. p. 43, t. 184, as to figure only, and El. Ind., 

 vol. ii. p. 161, partly; Baker in Kew Bulletin, May, 1887, as to 

 figure on p. 4 only, not as to the description; Gerome and Labroy 



in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1903, pp. 172-173, fig. 10; Do AVilde- 

 man, Notices PL Utiles du Con"o, pp. 624-625, fig. 10, not of 



p. 631; Murca, Asiatick liesearcbes, vol. iv. p. 271. 



DiA. Coast of Coromandel, Roxbiugb ; ^Madras (Triplieane), 

 collector not stated! Gogbat, in tbe Ho* ^ 

 Lower Bengal, at Ulubaria, Kitrzl Palandu Tea Estate in 

 Cbota Nagpur, Coolel Peninsula, Rattler \ and cultivated speci- 

 mens ! 



Described from living jdants cultivated at Kew. Tbe jdant 

 here described is unquestionably identical ^vith that figured on 

 t. 184 of Roxburgh's Plants of the Coast of Coromandel, but it 

 loes not agree with the description which Poxburo-h has given, 

 for in that description he has evidently mixed with it another 

 plant that I think will probably prove to be S. Januginnm, 

 Willd., since he states that the leaves are 1 to 4 ft. long 

 and semicylindric. Now^ Roxburgh's figure is an excellent one 

 of the plant here described, but none of the adult flowering speci- 

 mens of it that I have seen, either of tliose grown in India or 

 of those cultivated at Kew, have leaves more than 2 ft. lon^, 

 usually_ they are very much less, and none of them are semi- 

 cylindric, the adult form being only crescent-shaped in trans- 

 verse section. As Roxburgh's description has been more or less 

 embodiod m those of subsequent authors, this is the first to be 

 published that is based on the plant alone. 



Hitherto S. Roxhurghiana has been more or less confused with 

 >S. zeyJanica, but when seen growing by the side of that species, 

 it can easily be discriminated, for its leaves are mostly shorter, 

 much thinner and consequently less rigid than those of S. zey- 

 lanica, also of a rather lighter and different tint of green, with 

 more numerous longitudinal dark green lines on the back. Pos- 

 sibly the fiowers may also differ, but I have not seen those of 

 S. zeylanica. The plant figured as S. Roxburghiana in the 

 Botanical 3Iagazine at t. 7487 is S. lurmanica, which does not 

 occur m the region where S. Ro.xhnrqhiaua jrvows. 



29. S, burmanica, N.E. Brown (fig. VZ).~Stemless, with a 



creeping rootstock i-f in. thick. Leav^es of adult plants 8-13 to a 

 growth, smooth, li-2i ft. long, i-li in. broad, 11-2 lin. thick, 

 very erect, straight and all close togetlier, flexible, linear or 

 line-nr-lanceolate, flattish or with a slight broad angular channel 

 down the face, obtusely keeled on the back, tapering to a soft 

 ^'leen subulate point l-3-i- in. long at the apex, sessile and sheath- 

 ing at the base, grass-green, transversely banded with paler 

 green, with 6-9 slightly impressedrlines down the back and 1-3 

 on the face; margins green, with age becomint; very narrowly 



