/Sansevieria,] cxxxv. H^MODORACEiE (baker). 833 



|-1 in. long ; lobes rather longer than the tube. Style finally shortly 

 exserted.— Gurke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 367, t. 5, fig. J. 



irile ]Lancl. British East Africa : Banks of the White Nile in a wood, 

 Petherick ! Mittu : near Mvolo, Schweinfurth, 3834 ! 



o. S. guineensis, Willd. Sp. Plant, ii. 159. Rootstock wide- 

 creeping, as thick as a man's finger. Leaves 3-6 to a node, lanceolate, 

 nearly fiat above the base, 3-4 ft. long, 2J-5 in. broad at the middle, 

 more or less distinctly mottled with white, sometimes bordered with a 

 thin line of red within the white edge. Peduncle 1-1 J ft. long, -svith 

 3-4 scariose bract-leaves. Raceme dense, lJ-2 ft. long, about 3 in. 

 diam. ; fiowers 3-6 in a cluster ; bracts small, oblong-lanceolate ; pedicels 

 \-\ in. long, articulated at the middle. Perianth l|-2 in. long, white, 

 tinged with green or brown ; lobes as long as the tube. Stamens as 

 long as the perianth-lobes. Style finally much exserted. — Gawl. in 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1179; Red. Lil. t. 330; Kunth, Enum. v. 16; Baker in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 547 ; Kew Bulletin, 1887, May, 5 and 3, fig. 1 ; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 79 ; Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 

 144, t. 5, figs. A-F. Aletris hyaciiithoides, var. guineensis, Linn. Sp. 

 Plant, ed. 2, 456. Aletris guineensiSj Jacq. Hort. Yind. i. 36, t. 84. 

 Acyntha guineensis, Medic. Theod. 76. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Sugarloaf Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 3980! on 

 rocks by the River Scarcies at Sasseni, Scott-Elliot, 4532 ! and without precise 

 locality, Afzelitis ! Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 1508! Fernando Po, Barter, 

 2060! 



Nile Xiand. Eritrea: Saganeiti, 6500 ft., Schweinfurth ^ Riva, 1270! 

 Mogod Valley, Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1609 ! near Acrour, Schweinfurth Sf Riva^ 

 1763 ! Keren, Steudner, 475 ! Beccari, 198 ! Somaliland : Golis Range, Mrs. Lort 

 Fhillips ! British East Africa : Jur ; Seriba Agad, Schweinfurth, 1658 ! Jur 

 Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1883 ! Madi, Speke Sf Grant, 526 ! Rabai Hills, near 

 Mombasa, Taylor ! 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo, Laurent ! 



XMLozamt). Dist. German East Africa : Zanguebar, Stewart ! Portuguese 

 East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; between Shiramba and Shigogo, Kirk, 178 I 



No>v widely cultivated throughout the Tropics. For an account of the uses of this 

 and the other species, see Kew Bulletin, 1887, May, and Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 B. 364-368. S. lostevirens, glauca and polyphylla of Haworth are probably garden 

 forms of this species. 



4. S. hrsLCteatSiy Baker in Trans. Linn.&oc. ser. 2, i. 253. Leaves 

 oblanceolate, flat, rigidly coriaceous, 1-2 ft. long, 2-2J in. broad above 

 the middle, narrowed gradually to a concave base, furnished with a 

 distinct red margin. Peduncle 1-1 1 ft. long, furnished with scariose 

 ovate erect amplexicaul bract-leaves, the lower 3-4 in. long. Raceme 

 dense, simple, 2-0 in. long ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, scariose, -J-1 in. 

 long ; pedicels very short, densely fascicled. Perianth white, 2|-3 in. 

 long ; lobes under 1 in. long. Style and stamens not exserted. 



I.ower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in rather dry rocky soil at a con- 

 siderable elevation, Welwitsch, 3750 ! 3751 ! 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Uluguru ? Stuhlmann ! 



