Ekeis.^ cXLiii. PALMiE (weight). 125 



1. E. guineensis, Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 280, t. 172, ed.pict. 136, ^.257. 

 Stem robust, 20-30 ft. high, 1 ft. or more in diam., annulate, and 

 bearing the remains of old leaves. Leaves 12 or more in a terminal 

 crown, 10-15 ft. long, erecto-patent ; petiole 4 ft. long, widened at the 

 base, piano-convex, more or less brownish lepidote, spiny on the mar- 

 gins ; leaflets 50 or more, IJ ft. or more long, lJ-2 in. wide, midrib 

 distinct, secondary nerves about 6 on each side. Spadices 8 to many, 

 male 4-6 in. long, with many branches bearing densely imbricate 

 flowers, female peduncled with the branches congested .into a globose 

 capitulum. Male flowers : Sepals linear. Petals linear-oblong. Anthers 

 linear, subsagittate. Rudiment of ovary minute, white. Female flowers : 

 Sepals ovate. Petals glabrous, reddish-brown. Ovary ovoid, sometimes 

 angular ; style pyramidal, triquetrous ; stigmas large, ovate-lanceolate, 

 reflexo-patent. — Mart. Palm. ii. 62, tt. 54, 56, and in MUnch. gel. Anzeig. 

 1838, 639, 1839, 46; R. Br.Yermischte Schrift. i. 269 ; Schum. & Thonn. 

 Beskr. Guin. PI. 439 ; Tuckey, River Congo, 455 ; Hook. Niger Fl. 

 13, 526 ; Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 424, 439 ; Kirk in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 231 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 291 ; Giissfeldt 

 & Pechuel-Loesche, Die Loango-Exped. i. 56, with fig,, 208, 224, with 

 fig. ; J. Braun in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1889), 148 ; Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. B. 8, C. 131 ; Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 112 ; Henriques in 

 Bolet. Soc. Brot. v. 206, 218; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 462, 

 and Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 274. E. guineensis, var. mojcrosperma, Welw. 

 Apont. 584 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 84. 



Tapper auiaea. Senegambia: Cape Verde, .ffrMnwer .' Liberia: Cape Pabnaa, 

 Vogel,65l Lower Niger: foot of Mount Patteh, Voffel. Old Calabar, Milne! 

 Fernando Po, Mann ! 



Wlie liiaud. British East Africa : Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile), Schweinfurth. 



Ziower Cruiaea. Island of St. Thonaas, Moller ! French Congo : a short 

 distance south of Cape Lopez, Johnston. Congo, TucTcey. Lower Congo : from 

 Moussouk to Kinchassa, Dupont ; and without precise locality. Smith, Dupuis, 

 Laurent. Angola : Icolo e Bengo ; Quitandongo, Welwitsch, fruit, 1057 ! Bengo 

 shore, Welwitsch, fruit, 1060 ! Barro do Bengo ; plentiful in damp woods on the 

 banks of the River Bengo at San Antonio, Welwitsch, 6660 ! Golungo Alto ; banks 

 of the River Delamboa, Welwitsch, 6664 ! and 1061 (wool from leaf) ! 



IWIoscaiub. Xllst. Zanzibar, Kirk! Pemba Island, ex Engler ; Tanganyika, 

 ex lEngler. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; west shore of Lake Nyasa, near 

 Sani Hill, KirJc ! Port Hill and Songue, Whyte ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; near Munza (cultivated) 

 Schweinfurth, 3349 ! 



Var. microsperma, Welw. Apont. 584. Fruit 1^ in. or less long. — Rendle ia 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 84. 



Lower ti-uinea. Angola : banks of the River Bengo, Welwitsch, fruit, 1058 ! 

 Golungo Alto ; everywhere plentiful in woods at Bango, Welwitsch, fruit, 1059 ! 



Native name, Disombo. 



This is the Oil Palm, and bears the following native names : — In Guinea, 

 Tcehn-Tlo [Schumacher 6f Thonning); on the Con<;o, Maba = t)\e fruit, £mbu = sk, 

 single nut, Cachio = & cluster of fruit (Tuckey) ; in Angola, Vihdho, and the 

 tomentum of the petiole = Uruco or Urucu / in the Island of St. Thomas, Denden or 

 Palmeira Andim. 



