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Described from dried specimens. According to Monteiro it " is 

 oiily noticed north from Ambriz to Congo, and only growing very 

 near the_ sea : S. angolensis is bnt rarely seen witli it, and it is 

 very curious how distinctly these two types are separated." Else- 

 where he states that " S. longifiora is extremely abundant and 

 disappears south almost entirely about ^ilusserra, where it is in 

 turn replaced by ^S". angolensis'' [S. cylindrica, Boj.). 



Var. fernandopoensis, N.E. Broicn.- Flowers with pedicels 

 2}~o lin. long, jointed just above the luiddle, and a tube 2^ ^5 

 in. long; otherwise apparently the same as the type. 



Tropical Africa. Fernando Po, ^arfe/-, 2060 ! Ma7w,UC)d[ 



The plant figured in Karsten and Schenck Vegetationsbilder, 

 vol. 5, t. 41 as being S. longifiora is not in the least like that 

 species, but is one of the kinds having cylindric leaves allied to 

 S. rhodesiana, which I am unable to identify from the figure. 



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53. S. bracteala, Baker h\ Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, vol. i, 

 p. 253, Steinless witlr a creeping rootstoek ^S'ery thick, orange- 

 vermilion outside, wliite inside. Leaves erect, very thick and 

 rigid ^^ (Welwitsch), adult forms 1^-2 (or more?) ft, long, 2-2f 

 (or niore.^) in, broad, lanceolate, tapering into a point ^ in. or 

 more long, and from or below the middle (in specimens seen) into 

 a stout concave-channelled petiole, variegated on both sides with 

 irregular zigzag pale green or whitish-green bands or blotches, 

 which are usually much broader than the dark green ones alter- 

 nating with them, two or three of those at the base 1 in. or more 



broad, the rest about half as broad, closely placed and more or less 

 spotted, '^ glaucous, spotted with white and green'' (Wehvitsch); 

 margins hardened, brownish-red, sometimes with whitish edge. 

 Floicer-steni erect, l\-2 ft, high, with distant ovate acute sheaths 

 1-2 in, long on tlie basal part and a short dense s])ike-like raceme, 

 with an axis 2-2|- in. long above. Bracts erect, |— | in. long, 

 lanceolate or oblonf]:-laneeolate, acute. Flowers erect, white; 



Trop. Afr. vol. vii, p. 333; Iliern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. vol. ii, 



p. 25. 



AxGOLA. Plentiful in the districts of Icolo e I5engo and 

 Loanda, from Quieuxe to Mntollo and towards Funda, Wel- 

 witsch^ 3750! Pungo Andougo; in rather dry lofty parts of 

 the Praesidium, towards tlie south, Wehcitscli, 3751 ! between the 

 Knbanp^o and Kuito Rivers, Bamn, 5171 



Baum states {Kunene-Snvihcsi E.vpedition, p. 510) that the 

 fibre of this species is used by the Kaffirs for makinnr Bots, and 

 by the Bushmen for nooses to snare animals. This must be closely 

 allied to S. Anhryfiana, Carriere (not of Gerome & Labroy) and 

 possijbly a form of it, 



54, S. Braunii, Engler ^^ Krnv^e in Engl. Jahrb. vol, xlv, 

 p. 153. Leaves riffid, coriaceous 1|-2| ft. long, 2f-4^ in. broad, 

 flat, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, slightly narrowed to the base, 

 green, sparingly blotched or banded with whitish and having 



