308 cxxxiv. sciTAMiNE^ (baker;. [Amomuin. 



lanceolate side-lobes. Fruit smooth, above 1 in. diam. Seeds ellipsoid, 

 shining. — Baker in Hook. Ic. t. 2484. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Territory : Old Calabar, Milne. 



Iiower Guinea. Gaboon : Muni River and Gaboon River, Mann, 1904 ! 



16. A. citrsLtumy Pereira in Pharm. Journ. <b Trans, ser. 1, ix. 313, 

 with Jig. Rootstock stout, wide-creeping. Leafy stem stout, 10 ft. long. 

 Leaves lorate-oblong, moderately firm, acute, glabrous, 1 ft. or more 

 long, 2-3 in. broad at the middle, broadly rounded at the base, distinctly 

 petioled above the sheath; ligule large, quadrate, scariose. Flowers 

 many in a subsessile globose spike, 3 in. diam. ; bracts suborbicular, 

 obtuse, brown, scariose, the outer 2 in. broad. Upper corolla-lobe 

 oblong, 3 in. long, 2 in. broad; lateral lanceolate. Lip obovate-cuneate, 

 pale red, 3 in. long, 2 in. broad, much crisped ; anther-cells pubescent ; 

 crest with a small round central lobe and two lanceolate ascending side- 

 lobes. Fruit ovoid, glabrous, not grooved. Seeds obovoid, shining, 

 angled by pressure. — Oliv. & Hanb. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 110; 

 Baker in Hook. Ic. t. 2478. 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon : banks of the Gaboon River, Mann, 1052 ! 



17. A. angustifoliuxn, Sonnerat, Voy. Ind. iii. 276, t. 137. Root 

 stock stout, wide-creeping. Leafy stem reaching a length of 10-15 ft., 

 .V in. thick at the base. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, thin, glabrous, acute, 

 the lower 1 ft. or more long, 3 in, broad, nearly sessile on the sheath ; 

 ligule large, quadrate, scariose. Flowers often several in a spike ; 

 peduncle sometimes 6—8 in. long ; bracts obtuse, minutely apiculate, 

 the upper oblong, 1 J in. long. Flowers yellow or more or less tinged 

 with red. Upper corolla-lobe oblong, Ij in. long; lateral lanceolate. 

 Lip oblong-cuneate, about as large as the upper corolla-lobe, deflexed ; 

 anther-crest with a small rounded central lobe and two deflexed lanceo- 

 late side-lobes. Fruit ampulliform, bright red, glabrous, not grooved, 

 3-4 in. long, about 1 in. diam. Seeds oblong, large, pale-brown, glossy, 

 not aromatic. — Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 39; Horan. Prodr. 29; Hanb. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 154. A. madagascariense, Lam. 111. i. 4, t. 2, fig. 1 . 

 A. neraorosum, Bojer, Hort. Maurit. 327. A. Afzelii, Hook. f. in Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. iv. 129, t. 5. A. Daniellii, Hook. f. in Kew Journ. Bot. 

 vi. 294 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4764 ; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 326. A. Ckcsii, Hanb. 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 5250; Horan. Prodr. 29. A. erythrocarpum, Ridley in 

 Journ. Bot. 1887, 130. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Sugarloaf Mountain, Daniell, 5 ! Fernando 

 Po, Daniell ! Barter ! Mann, 1170 ! 



Wile Xiand. British East Africa: Ruwenzori ; Semliki Valley, Scott-ElUot, 

 7953 ! in streams at the foot of Ruwenzori, west side, Scoft-JElliot, 8099 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Gaboon River, Mann, 1035 I Island of St. Thomas, Ma.in, 

 1053 ! Mother, 8 ! Welwitsch, 6449 ! Princes Island, Barter, 1991 ! Welivitsch, 

 6455 ! Congo, Smith ! Angola : Pungo Andongo ; Mate de Pungo, Welwitsch, 6452 1 

 Golungo Alto ; Sobato de Quilombo and Queta, Welwitsch, 6456 ! near Banza, 

 Welwitsch, 6451 ! Maiange, Marques, 26 ! 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : between the coast and Uyui, Taj/lor ! 



