33G cxxxv. HiEMODORACE/E (baker). [Sansevieria. 



grooves ; facial groove rather deeper than the others ; laterals also a 

 little deeper than the dorsal. Primordial leaves terete. Flowers 

 unknown.— Kew Bulletin, 1887, May, 10 and 3, fig. 7. 



Locality not known with certainty ; probably the coast of German East Africa. 

 The above description is taken from the living plsmt at Kew. A plant received from 

 Laniu Island, British East Africa, from Mr. R. M. Ormerod in 1890, differs in having 



12. S. grandicuspis, Haw. Syn. Succ. 67. Leaves many to a tuft, 

 lanceolate, flat, thicker than in S. guineensis, 9-12 in. long, 1-1 1 in. 

 broad at the middle, slightly channelled down the lower half of the face, 

 obscurely mottled, not red on the margin, furnished on the back from 

 the top to the bottom with i)-7 distinct vertical grooves, tipped with a 

 distinct subulate cusp J- J in. long. Flowers not seen. — Kunth, Enum. 

 V. 20. 



Native country pot known. Described from a living plant in the Kew collection, 

 March 1896. 



Dr. Schinz (Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 45) refers doubtfully a plant collected 

 by himself in Amboland to S. thyrsifora, Thunb., which is widely spread in South 

 Africa. 



2. CYANASTRUM, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. t. 1965. 



Perianth corolline, with a short tube and 6 equal spreading oblong 

 lobes. Stamens 6, all perfect, inserted at the base of the perianth -lobes ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers linear, basifixed, dehiscing by two terminal 

 pores. Ovary globose, half inferior, 3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 collateral, erect ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate, faintly 3-lobed. 

 Fruit and seeds vmknown. 

 Endemic. 



1. C. cordifolium, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. t. 1965. Corm solid, globose, 

 J in. diam'. Leaves arising singly from the corm on long petioles, 

 cordate-ovate, acute, glabrous, membranous, 3-6 in. long, w^th arcuate 

 main veins arising from the apex of the petiole and reticulated inter- 

 mediate veinlets. Peduncle 4-6 in. long, with a laxly sheathing bract- 

 leaf from the base and another larger from the middle. Raceme lax, 

 2-3-flowered ; pedicels short, erecto-patent ; bracts oblong, membranous, 

 persistent. Perianth blue, J- J in. long. Stamens rather shorter than 

 the perianth ; filaments as long as the anthers. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : interior of Yoruba, Millson, 89 ! Sent to Kew alive 

 by Millen. Cameroons : near the shore, Kalhreyer, 89 ! Ambas Bay, Mann, 769 ! 



Ziower Guinea. Gaboon : Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1644 ! Mfoa, Bates, 540 ! 



There are in the Kew Herbarium incomplete specimens of a second species (C. 

 Johnstoni, Baker), collected by Sir H. Johnston in 1889, on the hills between Lakes 

 Tanganyika and Nyasa, at an elevation of 5000 feet. Of this the flowers are rather 

 larger and about six in a raceme, with deciduous bracts, and the stem has a linear 

 membranous bract-leaf at or below the middle. The leaves are said to be ample, and 

 the flowers blue. 



