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of the plant from whicli this species was described is still in 

 cultivation elsewhere, there seems little probability of confiiiniDg 

 my identification, which I nevertheless believe to be correct, 

 and this species is therefore the eastern reprosontative of S, 

 thyrsiflora, to which it was referred as a synonym by Mr. 

 Baker, but essentially differs from that species by the more 

 numerous leaves (usually varying from 5 to 12) to a growth, by 

 their more elongated-lanceolate form, wiih the central part 

 more even in breadth, by their brigliter and more pronounced 

 variegation and narrower reddish margin. ])riod sjiecimens or 

 living plants of it placed side by side of those of >S. thyrsiflom 

 seem perfectly distinct and are easily recognised. The above 

 description is entirely copied from that of Lindberg, without 



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48, S. thyrsiflora, Thunb, Prodr. PI. Cap, p. 65. StemUss, 



with a stout creeping rootstock. Leaves, 2-4 to a growth, erect, 

 smooth, i-l| ft. long, 1-3^ in. broad, about \ in. thick at the 

 middle, lanceolate, acute or obtuse, and usually with a white 

 withered point up to 8 lin. long at the apex, but on some leaves 

 it is absent, tapering from or below tlie middle into a concave- 

 channelled petiole, dull green, marked on both sides with 

 numerous closely placed transverse paler green bands, which 

 become obscure or almost disappear with age; margins hardened, 

 brownish-red or sometimes whitish under cultivation. Flotver- 



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a spike-like raceme of flower-clusters above. Bracts 2-6 lin. loi]g, 

 li lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly laiiceola|e, acute, 

 spreading, membranous. Flowers 2-C in a cluster; pedicels l|-3 

 lin. long, sometimes jointed a little above the middle, with a 

 distinct deciduous part, sometimes close under the flower, with 

 no evident deciduous part; tube about 9 lin. long, greenish-white; 

 lobes about 9 lin. long, linear, subobtuse, revolute, whitish. 

 Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed Schultes, p. 329, excluding synonym; Pappe, 

 Flor. Cap. ed. 2, p. 40; Baker in Journ. Lmn. Soc. vol. xiy. 



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Append. 3, p. 45. Gerome and Labroy in Bull. Mus. Hist. INat. 

 Pa4, 1903, pp. 172-1T3, fig. G; De Wildcman Isotices 11. 

 Utiles du Congo, pp. 6244l2o, fig. C, and p. 630 with fig. 

 S. gnineensis, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. ii, p. 159, and Enum. PI. 

 riort Berol. p. 375 (excluding synonvm Alrfns ffuinrmsis, 

 .Tncq.): Gawler in Bot. Mag. t. 1180 (11T9 by error); Alton, Hoit. 

 Kew ed. 2, vol. ii, p. 278; Eedoute, Liliaroes, vol. vi, +. 330; 

 Drapiez, Herb. Amat. de PI. vol. i, t. 67; Haworth, Synop. Pl. 

 Succ. p. 65; Link, Enura. PI. Hoit. Berol. vol. i, p, 342; 

 Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. ii, p. 93; Schultes, Syst. Yeg. vol. 

 vii, pr355. S. gtnneenv's var. ft, Kuntb, Enum. PI. vol. v, 

 p. 16. S. sficata, Haw. Synop. PI. Succ, p. 66; Link, Enum. 

 Plant. Hort. Berol. vol. i, p. 342; Sprongel, Syst. Veg. vol. 



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