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Yar. longituba, N. E. Brown. Fhnver-stevi browuisli-green 

 or dull purplish, thickly speckled with pale green. Flowers with 

 pedicels 2-6^ lin. long, jointed close under the flower, with the 

 deciduous part 0-i lin. long; tube 14 lin. long; lobes 14 lin. long. 

 Otherwise as in the tjpe. 



Tropicai. Africa. Localitj unknown, cultivated plant ! 

 Described from a living plant received from Paris Botanic 

 Garden in 1906, which flowered at Kew Nov, 8, 1909. 



Var. nyasica, N. E. Brown (fig. 20). Flowers with pedicels 

 2-3 lin. long, jointed at or a little above the middle, with the 

 deciduous part about 1 lin. long; tube 7-8 lin. long, greenish- 

 white or tinged with red; lobes 9 lin. long, white. Otherwise as 

 in the type. 



Tropical Africa. British Central Africa: Njasaland, 

 Buchanan ! 



Described from a living plant sent to Kew from Xyasaland, 

 probably near Blantyre, by Sir John Buchanan, in 1892. 



45.^8. liberica, Ger. 8f Lahr. in Bull. Mus. Hist. mt. 1903, 



pp. 170, lTr3, fig. 4. Stemless, with a creeping rootstock about 

 f in. thick, pale greyish. Leaves 1—3 to a growth, erect or suberect 

 when young, more or less spreading when old, firmly coriaceous, 

 at least when old, smooth, 1^-3^ ft. long, 2-5 in. broad, lanceo- 

 late, tapering from above the middle or somewhat abruptly at 

 the upper part into an acute apex, with a subulate point 1-4 lin. 

 long, which is at first green, becoming whitish, but not much 

 hardened with age, tapering below the middle to a convolute 

 base, but scarcely forming a jietiole, slightly wavy; at first deep 

 grass green, becoming dark green, sometimes without markings, 

 but usually with some rather indistinct transverse paler green 

 bands, often confined to the basal part of the leaf on the upper 

 side, but occurring far up or to the apes of the underside; mar- 

 gins cartilaginous, pale reddish-brown, at first with membranous 

 white edges, which disappear with age. Flowers not seen, — De 

 Wildem, Notices PI. Utiles du Congo, pp. 624-625, fig. 4. 

 Tropical Africa. Liberia: Introduced into cultivation at 



Paris by Dr. Julien in 1886. 



Described from a living plant, a portion of the type, received 

 at Kew from the Paris Botanic Garden in 1903. 



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46. S. Dawei Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvii, p. 529 



{see Plates). Stemless, with a creeping rootstock up to 1 in. or 



more 



2-3 



or suberect, smooth above, slightly rough beneath, 2-5 ft. long, 

 21-41 in. (or more.?) broad, elongate-lanceolate, tapering from 

 above the middle upwards to an acute apex and downwards into 

 a short or long concave-channelled petiole or sometimes almost 

 without a petiole, uniformly dull deep green and somewhat glau- 

 cous on both sides {Dmce), but in living plants seen, variegated 

 with pale green on both sides when young, margins reddish- 

 brown. Flower-stem 1|-2| ft. high, with 5-6 ovate or lanceo- 

 late acuminate membranous white sheaths on the basal third, 

 and a rather compact spike-like raceme of flower-clusters above. 



