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Tropical Africa. Rhodesia : near Bulawayo, Mrs, Evelyn 

 Cecil. 103! Southern Ehodesia, AUen^ 054! 



South Africa. Griqualand AVest : Lower Caniphell, Burchell, 

 1824! TransTaal: .Shiiuvane, Junod, 12121 South African Gold- 

 fields, BainesI AVarinbath, Miss Leendertz, 2354! Graaf Eoinct 

 Biv. : near Graaff Eeinet Bolus, 720! Uitenhage Div. : XJiten- 

 hage, Burchell, 4420! Sandfontein, Burhel Alexandria Div.:. 

 Ziiurberg Range, Cooper, 32G7 I Albany Div., Cooper, 3268! 



According to Mr. Baines, in a note upon a drawing at Kcw, 

 the Bushmen and Bechuanas make their cord from the fibre of 

 this plant. Described from living plants cultivated at Kew. 



31. S. grandiscuspis, Haw. Synop, "PL Succ. C7. Stemless, 

 with a stout creeping rootstock. Leaves 5-15 in a tuft, erect, sub- 

 erect or ascending-spreading, nearly straight, vsmooth, 7-20 in. 

 long, \-lh. in. broad, x'o~8 ^^- ^^^^^^ at the middle, coriaceous, still, 

 linear-lanceolate, with a very open angular or concave channel 

 down the face or strap-shaped and flat or nearly so, shortly 

 tapering or somewhat abruptly narrowed into a stout subulate 

 somewhat flexible (not at all hardened) green j^oint |-2 in- 

 long, the broader and flatter leaver narrowed at the base but 

 scarcely petiolate, and the narrower gradually tapering into a 

 deeply channelled petiole 2-6 in. long, so that the distinction 

 between blade and petiole is lost, somewhat regularly marked 

 with transverse bars of dull dark and lighter green on both 

 sides to the apex, with 5-7 longitudinal continuous or interrupted 

 darker green impressed lines or slight furrows on the back; mar- 

 gins green, sometimes with age or injury becoming very nar- 

 rowly whitish- Flowers not seen. — Sprengel, Syst Veg., vol. ii, 

 p, 93; Schultes, Syst. Veg., vol. vii. p. 359; Kuntn^ Enum. 

 PL vol, T. p. 20; Baker in FL Trop Afr., vol. vii. p. 336; 

 Geronie & Labroy in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., 1903, pp. 172-173, 

 fig. 13; De Wildem, Notices PL Utiles du Congo, pp. 624-625, 

 fig. 13. S. ensifoliay Haw. Synop, PL Succ, p. 66; Kunth 



Enum, PL, vol. v. p. 20. S. ptimila, Haw. Synop, PL Succ, 



p. 67; Link, Enum. Hort. BeroL, vol. i. p. 342; Schultes, Syst., 

 Vejn;., vol. vii. p. 359; Kunth, Enum. PL, vol, v. p. 20. 



OeIGIX r>KX0AVX, 



Described from living plants that have long been in culti- 

 vation. Haworth originally described it in 1812 from a living 

 plant, and S. pnmila which he described at the same time, is 

 evidently only the juvenile state of S, grandlcuspis, S, ptiwila, 

 De Spin., apj)ears to have been quite a different plant. 



32. S, Dooneri, N. E. Brown (fig. 13), — Rootstock creeping, 



1-1. in, thick, orange-brown, or, when above ground, dull olivc- 

 -reen, with broad whitish sheathing scales about ^ in. long. 

 tcm, none on some growths, but sometimes up to 2 in. high, 

 concealed by the leaf-bases, and not very evident. Leaves on 

 the barren growths up to 20, crowded on the short stem; on 

 the flowering growths 6-8 in a lax rosette, coriaceous, flexible, 

 very recurved-spreading from an erect or ascending basal part, 

 very smooth, 4-17 in. long, f-1^ in. broad; strap-shaped or^ 



