Phcenix.] cxlvii. palm^e (weight). 103 



flower half as long as the corolla, urceolate. Fruit dry, seated on the 

 marcescent cup-shaped calyx and corolla ; endocarp hard. Seed very 

 slightly pointed above, 7 lin. long, 4 lin. broad. — P. daciT/lifera ? Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 153. 



irile Xiand. Eritrea : Valley of Ainsaba, near Keren, Steudner, 1540 ! 

 between Keren and Adowa, Steudner, 1511 ; Hamasen district, Steudner, 1541. 

 Abyssinia : Adowa, Schimper, 794! Steudner, 1539. 



3. P. reclinata, Jacq. Fragm. i. 27, t. 24. Stem erect, 3-4 ft. 

 high. Leaves 3-5 ft, long, bright green ; petiole flat above, slightly 

 convex beneath, expanded at the base into a fuscous fibrous sheath ; 

 leaflets rigid, lanceolate, acuminate, pungent, the central 1 ft. by 1 in., 

 the lowest subspinescent and aggregate, the remainder equidistant, 

 midrib with white floccose indumentum on the lower side. Male 

 flower lanceolate, acuminate. Female spadix 2 ft. long ; branches 6-8 

 in. long; peduncle over 1 ft. long, complanate, glabrous. Petals 

 fuscous. Drupe cylindric-elliptic, 7-8 lin. long, 4-5 lin. wide at the 

 middle, dull red. Seed ovate, 5 lin. long, deeply sulcate ; embryo a 

 little below the middle.— Willd. Sp. PL iv. 731 ; Mart, in Munch, gel. 

 Anzeig. 1838, 638, and Palm. iii. 272, t. 164 ; Kunth, Enum. iii. 256 ; 

 Becc. Malesia, iii. 349; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 13, C. 130; C. H. 

 Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 29 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 

 App. iii. 33 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 82 ; Penzig in Atti Congr. 

 Bot. Genova, 1892, 363. P.spinosa. Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 

 437; Mart, in Munch, gel. Anzeig.' 1838, 638, and 1839, 45; Kunth, 

 Enum. iii. 256 ; Kirk in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 234 ; Benth. in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 526 ; Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 428 ; 

 J. Braun & K. Schum. in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1880) 148; 

 Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 272; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. ii. App. ii. 51. P. leonensis, Lodd. ex Kunth, Enum. iii. 256. 

 P. senegalensis, Van Houtte ex Salomon in Gartenflora, 1884, 305. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 760! South Senegambia, Brunner ! 

 Sierra Leone, Oldfield ! Gold Coast : Aburi Hills, Johnson, 459 ! Niger Delta : 

 banks of the River Nun, Mann, 528 ! 



N-ile land. Eritrea : Aidereso, 4000 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1610 ! Arrot 

 Valley, Barario, 4400 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 740 ! Geleb, 4592 ft., Schireiyifurth ! 

 near Keren, 6232 ft., Schweinfurth ! Steudner, 1540 I Renzig. Britisb East Africa : 

 Pemba Island, Stuhlmann, 1128 (ex Brude) ; Jur ; Genana, near Jur Ghattas, 

 Schweinfurth, 1358! Uganda; Kampala, Scott- Elliot, 1Z52,\ Stuhlmann, 1300 {ex 

 Drude) ; Mombasa, Wakefield ! 



I.ower Guinea. Estuary of the Congo, as far as tbe Isle of Mateba, Duj)ont, 

 Roger. Congo: Masougolo, Burton! Smith! Angola: Pungo Andongo; plentiful 

 on the marshy banks of the Rivers Cuanza, Lombe, &c., and at Sansanianda and 

 Mopopo, Welwitsch, 6667 ! Icolo e Bengo ; between Tantambonda and Quiranda, 

 Welwitsch, 6658 ! Barra do Dande ; plentiful on the banks of the lake and of the 

 River Dande, near Bombo, Welwitsch, 6659 ! 6659b ! Calumquembo district, Wel- 

 toitscJi, 6672 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Lunda ; at Muscl.i Brook, BucJmer, 689 

 (ex Drude). 



