128 ex. PODOSTEMACE^ (baker AND wrigut). [Sph(E'rothi/lax. 



1 . S. warmingiana, Gilg ex Warming in Kgl. Danske Selsk. Skrifter, 

 ser. C, xi. i. 11, Jigs. 13-19. Stem about 8 in. long, springing from a 

 creeping root, slightly compressed, branched, young leaves and branches 

 curved and resembling a helicoid cyme ; lower branches rather long 

 and bearing both leaves and flowers, upper short and flower-bearing. 

 Leaves up to 9 in. long, many times pinnatisect or the ultimate divi- 

 sions subdichotomous, exstipulate. Cymes scorpioid, many-flowered, 

 densely clothed with imbricate digitately divided scales; spathell?e 

 sessile, ovoid-ellipsoid; pedicels at length 3 lin. long. Perianth- 

 scales 2, linear, \ lin. long. Filaments f lin. long, united in the 

 lower half; anther \ lin. long, oblong, obtuse ; pollen-grains 1-celled. 

 Ovary obovoid-oblong, strongly C-ribbed ; styles reflexed. Capsule 

 pale brownish-grey (6'i7^), 1 lin. long; valves 2, subequal, 3-ribbed, 

 ribs produced into apical teeth. — Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 

 240. 



]Lower Guinea. Angola: Kubango River, at Menempremp, near Wolombo, 

 5200 ft., Baum, 904 ! 



2. S. abyssinica, Wamiivg in Engl, d: PrantI, PJlamenfam. iii. 

 2A, 22. Thallus irregularly lobed, up to 3 in. across. Stems up to 

 8 in. long, slender, much-branched. Leaves 2-4 in. long, divided into 

 very narrow linear segments. Flowers either solitary on the thallus 

 or in glomerules on the stem ; bracteoles 2, minute ; spathellae about 

 1 in. long, irregularly bursting at the apex. Filaments about h lin. 

 long ; anthers oblong, shorter than the filaments. Staminodes minute. 

 Ovary ellipsoid ; style bifid, stigmatose on the inner side. Capsule } lin. 

 long, on a pedicel 2 lin. long, brown, marked with 8 paler ribs. — 

 Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2300 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 229 ; 

 Warming in Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, ser. (>, vii. iv. 140, 

 figs. 10-17, and ix. ii. 145. Anastrophea abyssinica, Wedd. in DC. 

 Prodr. xvii. 79. 



xrile Xiand. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Gafat, 7800 ft., Schimper, 1181 ! 



3. S. heteromorpha, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. 876. 

 Stems dimorphic, some about 20 in. long, slender, cylindrical or faintly 

 channelled on one side, with leaves along one side and flowers on the 

 other, others flattened or as if fasciated and bearing leaves and flowers 

 round the margin. Leaves irregularly pinnatisect, with subulate 

 segments. Flowers clustered on the flattened stems, usually solitary 

 on the cylindrical. Spathella? rupturing and irregularly 4-5-toothed 

 at the apex ; pedicel about lin. long, inflexed in bud ; bracteoles 

 1-2, filiform. Stamens 2-3; filaments united below; anther-cells 2, 

 free and obtuse below, separated by a deep groove. Ovary stipitate, 

 2-celled ; style with two short subulate branches. Capsule equally 

 2-valved. 



Soutb Central r Congo : Avithout precise locality or collector's name 

 {Thollonf). 



