Raphia.'] cxlvii. palm^ (wright). 107 



furrowed, obtuse (rarely slightly emarginate) at the base, almost entire 

 at the margins. Seed long ellipsoid, 2\ in. long, 11 lin. thick ; albumen 

 with narrow ruminations. — Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : River Volta, jRwrn^e^, 6! 



Iiower Guinea. Spanish Gaboon : Corisco Island, Mann, 1910 ! 



7. R. Hookeri, Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 438, 

 t. S9,Jig. B, t. 4:2, Jig. A. Stem about 30 ft. high, 1 ft. thick. Leaves 

 about 40 ft. long; petiole 10-12 ft. long, breaking up at the edges into 

 curved pendulous fibres ; leafiets about 200 on each side, rather rigid, 

 4-5 ft. long, lJ-2 in. wide, spiny on the upper side of the midrib 

 towards the base and apex and on the keel, glaucous beneath. Spadices 

 in pairs, rarely solitary, from the upper part of the stem, pendulous, 

 densely and compactly branched, slightly glaucous ; primary branches 

 about 60; branchlets rigid, the lower 10-11 in. long. Male flowers 

 J) lin. long. Stamens 16. Female flowers 9-12 at the base of the 

 lower branches. Fruit oval-ellipsoid, 3|-4 in. long, l|-2 in. thick, 

 obliquely long mucronate ; scales in 12-15 rows, 9 lin. by 8 lin., very 

 slightly sulcate, chestnut or cinnamon, obtuse at the base, almost entire. 

 Seed 2^-3 in. by 13-15 lin.; albumen narrowly ruminate. — Drude in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar and Cameroons, in humid places along the ccast, 

 Mann, 1911 ! also cultivated. 



Xiower Guinea. Spanish Gaboon : Corisco Island, Mann, 1911 ! 

 The Wine Palm. Native name, Uhot. 



Imperfectly known species. 



<s. R, angoleusis, Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 83. Fruit 

 larger than in ii*. longijiora, and longer in proportion to its breadth, 

 4 J in. by Ij in ; scales almost square, light brown, getting darker 

 towards the blunt base, the largest rather more than 9 lin. each way. 

 Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, blunt and almost flat at the apex, tapering 

 very gradually from above the middle to the base ; embryo J the way 

 from the apex ; rumination similar in character to that of R. longifloraj 

 but not so copious. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola; without precise locality, Welivitsch ! 



9. R. xuaxixna^ Fechuel-Loesche, Loango-Exped. iii. 164 ; Drude in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 128 ; Eendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. ^63. 



XiOwer Guinea. French Congo : Loango, Fechuel-Loesche . 



Drude suggests that this (which has not been described) may be synonymous with 

 J2. HooJceri. 



C. CALAMUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 931. 



Male flower : Calyx cupular, trifid. Petals 3, free or connate at 

 the base, oblong or lanceolate, acute, valvate. Stamens 6, inserted at 

 the base or throat of the corolla ; filaments short, free or connate 

 at the base ; anthers linear, sagittate or oblong, dorsifixed. Rudiment 



