IIG cxLvii. PALM.E (weight). [Ancistrophyllum. 



ochrea ; petiole 4 in, long, 9 lin. in diam., concave above, convex 

 beneath, spines marginal, remote, subulate from a thickened base, black 

 at the apex, recurved ; rhachis gradually attenuate upwards, convex and 

 unarmed on the back, convex on the face in the lower part, acute-angled 

 in the upper, with very slender subulate straight or slightly curved 

 spines 3-G lin. long between the leaflets ; cirrhus 5-6 ft. long, unarmed 

 or slightly spiny; reduced leaflets up to 18, recurved, much thickened 

 at the base, flattened or triangular above, the lowest alternate, 4-8 in, 

 apart, 2 in. long, o lin. wide, the upper opposite and confluent at the 

 base, getting gradually smaller and closer together; leaflets 45-55 on 

 each side, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, abruptly contracted at the base, 

 with spiny cilia on the margins, rather rigid, straight, with 1-2 nerves 

 rather prominent and remotely spiny on the upper side, the lowest 

 approximate, 4-5 in. long, G lin. wide, the central 12-13 in. long, 

 9-18 lin. wide, the upper rather more distant. Spadix broadly ovate, 

 4-6 ft. long; primary branches 10-15, about 3 ft. long; bracts cylin- 

 drical, obliquely truncate, unarmed, smooth, adpressed ; flower-bearing 

 branches 1 ft. long, slender, distichous, pendulous, turned to one side ; 

 bracteoles narrowly campanulate, 2 lin. long, obliquely truncate. 

 Flowers geminate, yellowish, shortly pedicellate, horizontally patent. 

 Calyx nearly 2 lin. iong, campanulate, smooth, thickened at the base ; 

 lobes semi-oblong, rather acute. Corolla 4 lin. long ; lobes linear-oblong, 

 shortly acute, rather thick, patent, valvate, 1-lJ lin. wide, convex, 

 faintly striate. Stamens 6, shorter than the corolla ; filaments 

 thickened, compressed ; anthers 2 lin. long, linear, bifid at the base, 

 introrse. Ovary globose, 3-celled ; style columnar ; stigmas 3, oblong ; 

 ovule erect. Fruit baccate, 1-seeded, orange-colour w^hen fresh, brown 

 when dry, 6 lin. long, 4-5 lin. in diam., oblong, compressed ; scales in 

 17 rows, membranous, brown, chestnut-brown and scabrid on the margins. 

 Seed smooth, oblong, compressed, obtuse or slightly bilobed at the base, 

 very shortly mucronate at the apex, 4-5J lin. long, 3-4 lin. wide, 2J lin. 

 thick, fixed at the lower end ; hilum roundish ; raphe linear, passing 

 into an adpressed mammilla ; chalaza in the upper half of the seed ; testa 

 chestnut-brown, smooth, somewhat shining; albumen homogeneous, 

 horny, impinged upon on the dorsal side by the testa and the raphe ; 

 embryo ventral, horizontal, about half-way up the albumen. — Hook. f. 

 in Kew Report, 1882, 69 ; Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. Calamus 

 secundijlorus, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 15, tt. 9-10 ; Mart, in Munch, gel. 

 Anzeig. 1838, 639, and Palm. iii. 341; Tuckey, River Congo, 457; 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fi. Aethiop. 291. C. {Ancistrophyllum) secundijlorus, 

 Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 432, t. 38^, fig. D, t. 41, fig. G, 

 t. 43, fig. C ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl.Congo, i. 272. C. Schwein- 

 furthii, Becc. ex Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Niger Delta : mouth of the River 

 Nun, Mann, 453 ! and along the coast from the equator to Sierra Leone, ex Mann. 

 Benin, Beauvois (ex Drude). Niger Expedition, without precise locality. Barter^ 

 61 ! Old Calabar, Milne I Cameroons ; Barombi, Preuss, 389 (ex Drude). 



xrile Iiand. British East Africa : Niamniam : at Mansilli Brook, Schwein- 

 fvrth, 2860 ! 



