Jlusa] IV. SCITAMINE.E. 25 



Jan. 1857. No. 6447- Under the gigantic spike are 5 to 6 lanceolate 

 sterile bracts. The leaves are generally more linear-elliptic than 

 in Jf. >iiipifHtuiii, also much thicker and stiffer, and with much 

 thicker whitish rose-coloured middle nerves : they also stand more 

 erect on the stem and are not so easily split into many lacinise as 

 those of the cultivated }rusa. The stem is more or less ventricose 

 a little above-ground in all older specimens. It is the Adansonia of 

 Scitamineii3. Fruit almost entirely filled with black seeds mixed with 

 a very little pulp and by no means edible. In damp rocky places, 

 especially by streams and cataracts near Pungo Andongo. Coll, 

 Cakp. 995. 



A specimen consisting only of leaves probably belongs to this order. 

 No. 7228. No information. 



V. BROMELIACE^. 



1. ANANAS Adans. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 662. 



1. A. sativusScbult.f.inEoem.&Scliult.Syst.vii. p. 1283(1830); 

 Eaker Handb. Bromel. p. 22 ; Mez in DC. Mon. Phan. ix. p. 164. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A perennial herb with a monocarpic stem ; leaves 

 4 to 6 ft., curved and spreading with a spiny margin, and affording 

 very tough textile fibres. Spontaneous but not indigenous, and plenti- 

 ful in woods and secondary thickets ; also plentifully cultivated every- 

 Avhere for its fruit. Sange ; Aug. 1856. No. 4007. See Apont. p. 544. 



yi. H^MODORACE^. 



1. SANSEVIERIA Thunb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 p. 679. 



1. S. bracteata Baker in Trans. Linn. 8oc. ser. 2. i. p. 253 (1878). 

 IcoLO E Bex(;<) and Luanda. — A perennial acaulescent herb with 



a very thick root or rather rhizome, horizontal or more or less obliquely 

 descending, hard and woody, white inside, orange-vermilion outside 

 leaves all radical, lanceolate, erect, very thick, very rigid, obtusely 

 canaliculate, glaucous, spotted with white and green, margin red, 

 cartilaginous ; scape erect, H to 2 ft., shortly racemose, apex comose, 

 flowers white. Plentiful almost everywhere from Quicuxe to Mutollo 

 and towards Funda, but very rarely flowering. In fl. beginning of 

 June 1854. No. 3760. 



Puxco Andonc;o. — Leaves very rigid, green, white-spotted, red- 

 margined ; flowers white. In rather dry rocky lofty places of the 

 prsesidium, towards the south, but rarely flowering although not 

 unplentiful. In fl. Jan. 1857. No. 3751. 



Very near aS'. longijlora Sims. 



2. S. angolensis Welw. ex Hook, in Eep. Paris, Exhib. 1855 

 Pt. iii. p. 146 (1856). 



>y, ci/lindrica Bojer Hort. Maur. (1837) 349 (nomen nudum) ; 

 Hook.^Bot. Mag. t. 5093 (1859); Baker in Journ, Linn, See, 

 xiv. p. 549 ; Durand & Schinz, Oonsp. Fl. Afr. v, p, 140. 



LoANDA. — Native name " Ifi " ; used for making ropes. A perennial 

 herb with a thick woody root, and erect and runcif orm almost cylindrical 



