JRaxMa."] cxlvii. palm^ (wright). 105 



polished, chestnut-brown, adpressedly ciliate. — Kunth, Enum. iii. 217 ; 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 16, 0. 131. Raphia pedunculata, P. Beauv. in 

 Desv. Journ. Bot. ii. 87, and Fl. Owar. i. 78, t. 44, fig. 2, t. 46, fig. 2. 

 Sagus farinifera, Gsertn. Fruct. ii. 186, t. 120, fig. 3. Sag us Rujia, 

 Jacq. Fragm. 7, no. 27, t. 4, fig. 2. Sagus pedu7iculata^ Lam. Encycl. 

 Suppl. V. 13, and 111. iii. 357, t. 771, fig. 2 a-g. Metroxylon Ruffia, 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 139. 



Xrile Ziand. British East Africa : Taveta, near Kilimanjaro, ex Engler. 



BKozamb. Blst. Pemba Island and Zanzibar, ex Engler. German East 

 Africa : on the coast, and Usagara and Usambara regions, ex Engler ; Kilimanjaro 

 region ; Lake Yipe and Kahe, ex Engler. 



Also in Madagascar. 



2. R. textilis, Welw. Ajyont. 584. Fruit oval-turbinate, 2J in. 

 long, nearly 2 in. thick; scales in 11-14 rows, 11 lin. long, 11-12 lin. 

 wide, rather convex at the base, flatter towards the apex and with a 

 broad shallow furrow, dark chestnut, acute at the base, darker and 

 slightly fimbriate at the margin. Seed oval-turbinate, 2J in. long, 16 

 lin. thick ; albumen slightly ruminate. — Syn. Explic. 39 ; Rendle in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 83. R. Welvntschii, Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 

 439, t. 42, fig. B; Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. 



Iso-wer Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto ; near rivulets at 1800-2000 ft., and 

 120 miles from the coast, Welivitsch, 6666! 6671! and fruit 1054! Barro do 

 Dande ; gregarious on the River Dande, Welwitsch, 6663 ! 



3. R. Monbiittoriixn, Drude in Engl. Jahrh. xxi. Ill, 130. 

 Acaulescent or with a stem up to 5 ft. long. Leaflets irregularly 

 arranged, up to l\ in. wide. Male flower: Calyx shortly campanulate, 

 J-^ as long as the corolla. Corolla-lobes curved, narrowly lanceolate 

 trom a linear base, long acuminate, 9-10 lin. long. Stamens 6, adnate 

 to the base of the corolla-lobes ; anthers narrowly linear from a sagittate 

 base, shorter than the filaments ; connective shorter at the back than 

 the anther-cells. Female flower scarcely half as long as the male, 

 obtuse and broad. Calyx enclosing, and its teeth overtopping, the short 

 corolla, Staminodes absent. Young fruit long-pointed from an oval 

 base, mature unknown; scales in about 12 rows. — Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 131. 



Nile Ziand. British East Africa : Jur ; Okel (Okale), Schweinfurth, 1738 ! 

 Lnkes Albert Edward "and Albert Nyanza, ex Engler. 



Soutli Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; in the water of the valleys 

 near Munza, Schweinfurth, 3357 ! 



nXozamb. Dist. Tanganyika, ex Engler. 



4. R. Gsertneri, Mann d' Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 437, 

 L 4:2, Jig. 1). Spadix laxly branched ; branches slender, the lower 5-7 

 in. long, 4 lin. thick. Male flowers 6 lin. long. Petals elliptical. 

 Stamens 8 ; filaments clavate. Female flower : Petals 6 lin. long. 

 Staminodes about 8. Fruit elongate- or oval-ellipsoid, 2^-3 in. long, 

 \\ in. thick, obliquely mucronate ; scales in 8-10 rows, slightly emar- 

 ginate at the base, 8 lin. long, 8 lin. broad, light chestnut, slightly 



