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greeu on the back and at the tips. — Baker in Kew Bull. 1893, p. 

 186, in Bot. Mag. t. 7357, and in Fl. Trop. Afr., vol. vii, p. 334; 

 Geronie & Labroy in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1903, pp. 170, 172, 

 1'73, %. 7; De AViidem. Notices PI. Utiles du Congo, pp. 622, 

 624, 625, fig. 7, and pp. 632, 635. S. Anhrijliana, Gerome & 

 Labroy in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1903, pp. 109, 172, 173, fig. 9, 

 not of Camera. S. Auhryana, De 'Wildem. Notices PI. Utiles du 

 Congo, pp. 623, 624, 625, f. 9, and p. 634. May. 



Tropical Afeica. German East Africa: Abundant near 

 Pangane, Kirk I Zanzibar : Growing on tbe coral, Lyne, 3 ! at 

 the entrance of a cavern at the south of the island (this may 

 possiblybe var. pulcJira), Sacleu.v, 1496 I 



John Kirk ( 



fl 



Var. pulchra, .V. E. Br.— Leaves, especially the younger, hand- 

 soniely and conspicuously marked with whitish-green or pmnowhat 

 buft-coioured or sometimes almost reddish spots or irregular 

 bands on both sides and with a wliite membranous edge to the 

 rect-brown margin. Bracts lanceolate; otherwise as in the tvpe. 



r ,li'^':S' ?^™^' ^ ^^^^- ^^ ^^^^1- ^t^«- ITist. Nat. 1903, 

 pp. -^'^-IHJig 8- yji^i Q^ Wildem., Notices PI. Utiles du 



Congo, pp. 624-625, fig. 8, and p. 630, not of Sims. 



lEOPiCAL Africa. Zanzibar, Last ! 



7 WT." "'^onT ^, ^™S P^^^* sent to Kew W Mr. Last from 



Zanzibar in 1903, which flowered Sept. 10, 1912; a plant identical 



Jlilt.ir'!?frj!i^'°^„ Paris Botanic Garden In 1904 under 



listinct. 

 SteutlesSy with a 



longiflora 



'fl 



3-l^^in\ otl '^;i ^^'^'-'^ '^Prarently .mooth, 15-18 i^. long, 

 dimen.i'n^, . ^^ specimens seen, but perhaps attaining larger 

 HlTe noTnf 'i I 'T'' ^^^^^^l^^e, acute, iith a hard brown spike- 



channelled Uil' Zt o'"'%'^ ^^ ^l^^ ^^'^ i^*" ^ ''>'''^'''- 

 mar.>ins nm] ll!- ^ i ^ «''• ^^^-' "^^^^ hardened red-brown 

 etJt mar^ n ^ ^^ (^^''^J^^) a shallow channel or fold towards 



Ch s d f wi iTl ^' "^P^^ ^^^"^^^^' ^--1^ green, marked on 

 x,U]. fl,. "It V^"^"^, r' irregular transverse bands. Floivcr- 



are 

 tem 



in 



with the nnrt l.J^ ii 'i'^e^^^^r transverse bands. Floiccr-stei 

 rob s peSen. r * •' ^r'^''' ^^-^^ in. long, perhaps more i 

 f rom tK mo ; . '"\^ ^ ' *^"^ ^1^^^^^^ 1-21 in- lo4. Capering 

 3-15 in.^ nTt^rf .^f.^ ^ ^ 7^^ «- pofnt; flowe Vinl part 



ascenclin 



loTio- 4'r.-r,..' "^ T , "* "^^^vV iiiit^ point; newer 

 „ f '/Tn 1 » "^ 'I"'"' "-^ ''»=*« spike-like raceme. 



Bracts 



cute point 



submembranous Vz ^' '^^^^^^^^^^ tapering to an acute point, 



bract, ere~.]ife^,"f ti T^^T^^^' ^? '^ *^^ '"^^^^ «^^^^'^ 

 flower, no decicli mi7 W^/^' ^"''^' 3ointed close under the 



m-ohite/^v^ite 'tT if ' ^S^'' ^'^^^ i^- l^^g, linear, obtuse, 



KnnthEin^L PI ^,^?^t''' «>:?*. Veg., vol. vii.' pp. 357, 1678; 



CoTigo, vol. i! pp 45 7o^P-4S' ^^?«*^iro, Angola and tlie River 

 P- 7, and Fl Tron aW 'i ''!'^'" '^ ^''' Bulletin, May, 1887, 



