23T 



Senegambia, Richardtol, Ricliardy 72 ! and without 



locality, Perrottet^ 782 ! and 76 ex Baker, also 



precise 



cultivated 



-specimens 



f 



? 



Cornuiy received from Pans Botanic Garden in 1903, which first 

 flowered at Kew^ In 1905. S. Cornui, Ger. & 



Labr 



identical with the type of S. senegamhica^ Baker. 



37. S. subtilis, N.E. Brown (Fig. 17). 



St 



em 



les 



•with 



a 



<*Teeping rootstock 4-5 lin. thick. Leases 2-4 to a growth, erect 

 or Slightly recurving, very flexible, smooth, lf-2^ ft, long, 1-1| 



Fia 17 



S. subtilis, N.EBr, 



k 



size ; B, flower, nat, size 



A, section at middle of leaf, nat. 

 type cultivated at Kew. 



green point |-1 in. long and downwards into a channelled petiole 



b, linear-lanceolate, gradually 

 _ _ above 



-2-12 in. long, uniformly green and shining on both sides, or 

 with here and there a very faint trace of transverse banding on the 

 under surface; margins green, not hardened. Flower-stem 15-21 

 in. high, rather slender, 2 lin. thick at the base, the lower half 

 bearing about 3-distant membranous acuminate sheaths 5-6 lin. 



long and the upper a 



lax raceme of flower-clusters. Bracts 



