106 ' cxLvii. TALMJE (wright). [Mapkia. 



fimbriate at the margin. Seed elongate-ellipsoid, acute at either side, 

 2-2-1 ^^' ^y '"^-ll lin.; albumen with narrow ruminations. — Drude in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. E. vini/era, Druda in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Ill, not 

 Beauv. Sagus Palma-pinuSj Gaertn. Fract. i. 27, t. 10, fig. 1. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Berria (Beria), Scott-^lliot, 5002 ! Fernando 

 Po; from the shore to an altitude of 500 ft., Mann ! Gold Coast, Cameron ! 



5. R« vinifera, P. Beauv. Fl. Oioar. i. 77, t. 44, j?^. 1, t. 45, t. 46, 



fly. 2. Stems of medium height. Leaves 6-7 ft. long ; leaflets spiny. 

 Spadix about 8 ft. long, laxly branched ; lower branches 3-3J ft. long, 

 upper 1 ft. long; lower branchlets 8-10 in. long. Stamens 10-12. Female 

 flowers usually in the upper part of the spadix. Staminodes about 20. 

 Fruit cylindric-ellipsoid, shortly mucronate, 3 in. long, l|-lf in. thick; 

 scales in 8-9 rows, very broad, slightly emarginate at the base, rather 

 convex above the base, with a deep groove within the apex, flattened 

 at the margin, 9-^10 lin. long, 9 lin. wide, greenish, margin slightly 

 fimbriate and brownish. Seed 2\ in. long, 1 in. thick ; albumen with 

 narrow ruminations. — Mart, Palm. iii. 216, and in Miinch. gel. Anzeig. 

 1838, 639 ; Hook. Niger Fl. 526 ; Kirk in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 234 ; 

 Mann <fe Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 437, t. 42, fig. C ; J. Braun 

 & K. Schum. in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1889) 148; Kew 

 Bulletin, 1891, 1 ; Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Ill ; Durand & Schinz, 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 273; Eendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 82. 

 Metroxylon viniferum, Spreng. Syst. ii. 139. — Palma conifer a ex Guinea^ 

 C. Bauh. Pinax, 510. Palma vinifera Theveti, C. Bauh. Hist. i. 369. 



Upper Crulnea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Winterhottom (ex Martins). Niger 

 Territory : Oware and Benin ; abundant by the sides of rivers, ex P. Beauvois / 

 banks of the Old Calabar River, Mann ! 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo, Hens, Demeuse, Laurent, and Dwpuis (ex 

 Durand Sf Schinz). Congo, Smith, and LocJchart (ex Martins). Angola : Huilla ; 

 Morro de Lopollo, 5200-5800 ft., Welwitsch, 6657 ! 



IMCozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; hilly regions south of 

 Lake Nyasa, Kirk, and without precise locality, Buchanan ! 



The Bamboo Palm. In the Yoruba language this palm is variously known as 

 Igi-oguro, JEriJco, and AkpaJco ; its bass-fibre as J3/0, and the fishing-lines made 

 from it as lyo-oguro and lyo-aghe. P. Beauvois states that the negroes of Oware 

 and Benin call the wine made from the sap of the trunk Bourdon. 



6. R. longiflora, Mann <£• Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 438, 

 t. 2)^, Jig. A. and t. 4:2, Jig. E. A palm 40-50 ft. high. Stems csespitose, 

 3-4 together, 15 ft. high, 1 ft. thick. Leaves 33 ft. long ; petiole 11-12 

 ft. long, breaking up at the margins into rigid fibres ; leaflets about 160 

 on either side, coriaceous, 5-5J ft. long, 2J-2|^ in. wide, spiny on the 

 upper side of the midrib and on the margins near their base, unarmed 

 towards the apex ; secondary nerves solitary near the margins, promi- 

 nent beneath ; tertiary nerves 9-10 on either side of the midrib. 

 Spadix with thick branches. Male flowers 12-13 lin. long. Stamens 15. 

 Female flowers 4-5 near the base of the lower branches. Fruit elongate- 

 oval, 3-3^ in. long, 16—17 lin. thick, crowned by a long oblique mucro; 

 scales in 12 rows, 8 lin. long and wide, very convex, very shallowly 



