122 cxLVii. PALM/E (wright). [^Hyphonie. 



plano-convex, slightly concave on the upper side near the base, with 

 dark brown, usually sharply curved, spines on the margins, the lower 

 spines as well as the petiole margins densely covered with fuscous floccose 

 tomentum; ligule oblique, irregularly spiny toothed, acuminate ; rhachis 

 about :>0 in. long, produced beyond the centre of the leaf, slightly 

 toothed above the base; lamina cut f its length into about 75 lobes, 

 slightly floccose on the nerves near the base, with long filaments between 

 the lobes. Male inflorescence racemose ; branches bearing near their 

 apices 2-o cylindrical spikes ?>|-5 in. long, 5 lin. thick ; bracts cylin- 

 drical, oblique, long acuminate, with f jccose tomentum on the back 

 near the apex ; bracteoles widely cochleariform, truncate, pilose on the 

 back. Calyx turbinate, membranous, 1 lin. or rather more long, 3-lobed. 

 Corolla ;3-partite ; lobes ovate or obovate, acute, 1 lin. long, J lin. broad. 

 Stamens 6 ; filaments subulate, J lin. long ; anthers sagittate, dorsifixed 

 below the centre, 1 lin. long. Female inflorescence racemose, about 

 27 in. long ; branches 4-5, each bearing a single cylindrical spike ; 

 bracts cylindrical, oblique, acuminate or acute ; bracteoles widely coch- 

 leariform, truncate. Flowers unknown. Fruit on a subcylindrical 

 pedicel about ?> lin. long, oblique at the base, flattened and slightly 

 impressed above, 2 J in. long, l|-2 in. in diam. ; endocarp woody; pericarp 

 at the side 2 lin. thick, at the apex and base 4 lin. thick ; foramen about 

 5 lin. in diam. Seed 1 6 lin. long, 1 1 lin. in diam. ; albumen ovate, bony, 

 enclosing an ovate cavity ; embryo turbinate, near the apex of the seed. 

 Mozamb. Blst. Gennan East Africa : between Khutu and Uhehe, on the 

 eastern slope of the Vidunda Mountains, by the Ruaha River, on waste ground in 

 moist grey soil, 1640 ft., Goetze, 413. 



7. H. ventricosa. Kirk in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 235. " Known 

 from other species by its loftier stem, swollen in the middle; ligule 

 unilateral ; fruit spherical, surrounded by a considerable quantity of 

 farinaceous matter, and larger than that of H. coriacea or H. crinita^' 

 — Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 1881 , 0?, ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 1 80 ; Drude in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 110 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 34 ; 

 Card. Chron. 1884, xxi. 649, fig. 120 ; Dinter in Card. Chron. 1900, 

 xxviii. 372, and in Gartenfl. 1901, 176. 



ILo'wer Guinea. Congo, ex Johnston. German South-west Africa : Damara- 

 land, Dinter 1 



Mozamb. I>i8t. Rhodesia : Victoria Falls, on the Zambesi River, and believed 

 to extend southwards to Lake Ngami, ex Kirk. 



" Called Mokolwana by the Makololo," Kirk. 



Dinter states (I.e.) th;it this species occurs abundantly south of Grootfontein, out- 

 side the tropic. 



Imperfectly known species. 



8. H. aurantiaca, Dammer in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 355. Fruit 

 ovate, slightly impressed above, not oblique at the base, faintly keeled 

 on one side, about 2| in. long, 2 in. in diam. 



Mozasub. Blst. German East Africa : extending from Langenburg to Lake 

 Eukwa, Ooeize. 



This is said to differ from H. Goetzei, Dammer, in the shape of the fruit, which 

 Isas a bloom ou the ripe endocarp, and the shape of the seed. 



