234 



S, concinna, N.E.Br. 



dried specimen. 



Fig. U. 



Plant ^ nat. size. A, flower, nat. size. From a 



1-1 

 4 ? 



in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, memb 



Flowers in 



long, 



pairs or a few of tliem solitarj; pedicels jointed clovse under the 

 flower, with the persistent part li-2 lin. long; tube 1| in. long, 

 about 11m. in diam., cylindric, swollen at the base; lobes 10 lin. 



_ linear, 1 lin, broad near the apex, slightly taperino- to the 

 base, white. ^ J i n 



Portuguese East Africa. Xcar Beira, Daive, 1! 



35. S. subspicata, BaJcer in Gard. Chron. 

 436 (Fig. 15). 



creep] 



1889, vol. vi. 

 ^"^' ^ -1 in. thic 



late, acute, with a subulate soft green (withering to white) point 

 ^-^ m. lonn.. mostly tapering from the middle or above into 



paie jeuowisn Drown, j.eaves, 4-8 (up to 10 ex Baker) in a tuft, 



coriaceous, rather flexible, or somewhat firm, erect or recurved- 



spreadmg smooth, |-2 ft. long, l-2i in. broad, 1 lin. or less 



thick at the middle of the blade, lanceolate or narrowly lanceo- 

 late, acute, ■O'l^^Vl n cnl^,i1„+^ it f^',-1 • . -1 r. V • . 



^ in. long, 



a comparativelv slender petiofe 1^-9 in. long and 2-3 lin. broad 

 and thick and concave-chanelled down the face; deep green, 

 slightly shining, sometimes very faintly glaucous with age ; when 

 voung sometimes obscurely marked with transverse paler green 

 bars, which soon disappear; edges of young leaves green, of old 

 ones (apparently from rubbing or damaae) ver 



.„. hin-h i~i 



distant lanceokte-atteniinte bracts ^ ^ 

 oa the basal balf, and a spike4ike raceme above. Bracts 1-3 

 long, lanceolate. 



wbitisii. 

 membrano 



stera 



tliick, with 



1 3 



narrowly 



3-4 



m. 



long 



acute, membranous. Floio 



^^;Z -^, .7"^— '_"----^ /^^^^^^uiii"^^^. rioivers solitary or m 

 pairs, white; pedicels 1^1 Im. long, articulated close under the 



