Anubias.] cl. aroide^ (brown). 18;J 



Blade of leaf 4-6 in. long ; spathe 1-2 in, long, ex- 

 panded 2. A. lanceolata. 



Leaves variable, ovate-lanceolate to subhastnte, usually 

 broadest below tbe middle, 2-2o tinaes as long as 

 broad ; basal lobes, when present, short, broadly 

 rounded. 

 Spathe convolute when in iiower. 



Underside of the noidrib quite glabrous . . 3. ^. heterophylla. 



Underside of the midrib and usually the apex of 

 the petiole minutely puberulous. 

 Basal lobes of leaf contiguous or overlapping, 



not \ in. long 4. .4. auriculata. 



Basal lobes of leaf, when present, separated by 



an open sinus, \-'^ in. long . . . h. A. cougensis. 



Spathe expanded when in flower . . . . ij. A. Barter i. 



Leaves hastate with very spreading, linear-lanceolate, 



entire or lobulate basal lobes . . . . 7. A. hastifolia. 



1. A. Afzelii, Schottin Oesterr. Bot,WochenU. 1857, 399. Aquatic. 

 Leaves erect, glabrous ; petiole long, geniculate at the apex ; blade 

 about 1 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad, lanceolate, acute, narrowed to the 

 rounded or subtruncate base ; primary veins very numerous, parallel, 

 slightly curved, ascending. Peduncle long, smooth. Spathe 2^ in. 

 long, convolute, tubular, only open at the apex, obtuse, apiculate. 

 Spadix longer than the spathe, cyiindric; female part 10-11 lin. long, 

 male 1 J in. long, the lowest male flowers more or less abortive. Ovary 

 subglobose; style very short; stigma discoid. — Schott, Prod. Aroid. 

 150, and Gen. Aroid. t. 42 ; Engl, in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 434, Jahrb. 

 XV. 463 (excluding the Cameroon and Angolan specimens), and Araceae, t. 

 121 as to analyses (copied from Schott) only; Durand k Schinz, Consp. 

 PI. Afr. V. 476 partly. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Bafodeya, Scott-Elliot, 5560 ! near Kahreni, 

 Scott-Elliot^ 5623! rivulets near Vatemba Road, Barter! in swamps at Intro, 

 Johnson, 732 I and without precise locality, Afzelitis ! Don ! 



On the label with Don's specimen in the British Museum Herbarium is the 

 following note : '* Aquatic, a full foot under water." 



The A. Afzelii of Engl, in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1889) 149, collected by 

 Braun at Batanga in the Cameroons, and of De Wildemaii & Durand, Contrib. FI. 

 Congo, i. fasc. 2, 65, collected by Laurent at Mpioka, in the Congo Free State, 

 probably belongs to some other species. 



2. A. lanceolata, X. E. Br. Stem stout, creeping and rooting, 

 5-6 lin. thick, densely leafy. Leaves erect, glabrous; petiole 2^-0^ in. 

 long, its sheath 2-2 J in. long, very broadly dilated at the base ; blade 

 4-6 in. long, 1-2 in", broad, lanceolate, equally tapering at both ends, 

 subobtuse at the apex, narrowly rounded at the base ; veins numerous, 

 parallel, ascending, slightly curved. Peduncle about .j in. long, slender, 

 glabrous. Spathe 1-2 in. long, oblong, obtuse, apiculate, convolute at 

 the base, expanded above, white. Spadix about a.s long as the spathe 



