318 cxxxiv. sciTAMiNE^ (baker). [^Donax. 



9. D. purpurea, Schumann in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 440. Stems 

 slender, many from one rhizome, "2-3 ft. long. Leaves ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, ^"li ^^- ^^^ni ^~^ ^^- broad, glaucous-green above^, pinnately 

 variegated with streaks of white. Panicle erect, with slender spreading 

 hispid branches; bracts oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, 1J-1| in. long. 

 Flowers small, blue-purple. Sepals lanceolate, obtuse, ^ in. long. 

 Petals lorate, obtuse, longer than the staminodia. Lip small, narrow. 

 Style longer than the staminodia. Fruit globose, hispid, \ in. long» 

 shining, scarlet, usually 2-seeded. — Clinogyne purpurea, Ridley in Journ. 

 Bot. 1887, 132. 



IiO\irer Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; common in woods bv streams^ 

 2000-2500 ft., Welwitsch, 6440 ! 



No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



8. TRACHYPHRYNIUM, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. iii. 651. 



Sepals free, lanceolate, scariose, strongly nerved. Petals united in 

 a tube in the lower half ; blade oblong, spreading. Staminodia united 

 in a tube at the base ; outer lobes obovate; lip broad, obliquely crested 

 on the face ; staminiferous lobe narrowed, with the 1 -celled anther 

 adnate to one side. Ovary globose, papillose, 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; 

 style adnate at the base to the sbaminal tube, involute, appendiculate 

 on the back below the inflexed 2-lobed stigma. Capsule 3-celled or by 

 abortion 2-celled, 2-3-valved, strongly muricated. Seed solitary, 

 globose or oblong, with a basal aril and horseshoe-shaped embryo. — Tall 

 sarmentose branching shrubs, with leafy stems. Inflorescence terminal, 

 simple or branched ; rhachis jointed ; internodes short ; bracts usually 

 deciduous. Flowers small, inconspicuous. 



Endemic. 



Valves of fruit acutely angled on the back . . . 1. T. preus.siamim. 

 Valves of fruit rounded on the back. 



Branches spinous . . . . . . . . 2. T. danclcel- 



mannianum. 

 Branches unarmed. 



Capsule ^ in. diam . . , . . . 3. T. hraunianum. 

 Capsule 1^-2 in. diam. 



Bracts 1 in. long . . . . . . 4. 21 violacenm. 



Bracts 1^ in. long. . . . . . . 5. T. poggeanum. 



1. T. preussianum, Schumann in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 429, fig. K, 

 430. Stem tall, woody, shining, stramineous, unarmed ; branchlets 

 often abruptly deflexed. Leaves oblong, cuspidate, moderately firm, 

 glabrous, rounded at the base, 5-0 in. long, 2-2^^ in. broad; sheaths 

 glabrous, 3-4 in. long; thickened free apex of petiole |^-j in. long. 

 Inflorescence compound ; rhachis glabrous, slightly flexuose ; internodes 

 J^^ in. long ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, l-lj in. long. Flowers white or 

 reddish, an inch long. Sepals ovate, acuminate, h in. long. Petals ovate, 



