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Bracts i-| in. long, the secondary being about half as large as 

 tlie primary and conspicuous, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or 

 subobtuse, greenish or tinged vitli dull puri)lisli. Flowers 3-4 

 in a cluster, white; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, jointed close -under 

 the flower; tube |— 1 in. long; lobes f-| in. long. 



Uganda. Busiro, Dmce, 109 ! Entebbe, Matron, 3 ! 



Described from the type specimens and living plants. There 

 are also specimens at Kew collected between Voi and the Taita 

 Hills in British East Africa {Grenfell 2 & 12), and another 

 received from the Imperial Institute under No. 21342 as the 

 ''Tuor. fibre plant from Uganda." A living plant at Kew has 

 leaves green or bluish-green on both sides without markings 

 when full grown, but when young they are sometimes irregularly 

 marked with pale green spots or bands and usually with b, dis- 

 tinct glaucous "bloom," they vary from 2| up to 4| in. in 

 breadth. The flower-stem is of a lighter green than the leaves, 

 with indications of being tinged with purple where exposed to 

 the sun. Bracts up to l in. long, reflexed or very spreading, 

 ovate-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, acute. Tube of the 

 flower about II in. long; lobes about 1 in. long. In all other 



particulars it agrees with >S. Dawei. 



Mr 



gricultural Officer, Uganda 

 in a native comnound. 



47. S. angiistiflora, Lindh. in Acta Soc. Eennicae, vol. x, 



p. 130, t. 5. Stem.less, with a thick creeping rootstock. Leaves 

 up to 12 to a growth, ascending or spreading, stifi, 1^-2 ft. long^ 

 li-3 in. broad, 2-2^ lin. thick at the middle, narrowly or 



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elong-ated-lancolate, acutely tapering above the middle to a sub- 

 ulate green or ^vithered point ^1 in. long, narrowed below into 

 a rather short deeply concave-channelled petiole, dull green,, 

 marked with numerous paler green transverse bands; margins 

 pale reddish (*' whitish purple '* Lindberg), but more or le^ 

 green or whitish-green when young. Flower-stem l|-2 ft. high, 

 ^ in. thick at the base, green, obscurely marked with darker 

 green, indistinctly glaucous, with 4-5 tapering pale brownish 

 sheaths on the basal part and a spike-like raceme of flower- 

 clusters at the upper two-thirds. Bracts membranous, 3-4 liB^ 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, aeute. Flowers 3-6 in a cluster, white, 

 with a greenish line down the back of the lobes; pedicels 1|'^ 

 lin. long, jointed near the apex; tube 9-lOf lin, long; lobes 

 about as long as the tube, linear, obtuse, revolute. — S. angn^t'^' 

 folia (hj error for 5. angusti flora), Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc 



vol. XIV. p, 547, under S. thyrsiflora. 



Sorxii Aprica. Natal or Zululand, Wood I 



The native country of this species was unknown to Dr. Lind- 

 berg, but a plant sent to Kew from Durban Botanic Garden by 

 Dr. J. Medley Wood, as being a native of either Natal or 

 Zululand, so completely agrees with Dr. Lindberghs figure a^a 

 description that I cannot doubt its identity with that species, 

 of which Dr. Lindberg informs me no specimen has been pre- 

 served and that the plant is now dead. So that unless a portion 



