Rajihia'] xvii. PALMyE. 83 



2. R. textilis Welw. Apont. p. 584 No. 2 (1859) ; Synops. Explic. 

 p. 39 (1862). 



R. Welwitschii Wendl. in Trans. Linn. 8oc. xxiv., p, 439, t. 42 B. 

 (1864); Driide, I.e.; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



Metroxilo7i textile Welw. Apont., I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— No. 6666; Delamboa, Dec. IS;"..^). No. 6671. 

 Coll. Carp. 1054, 105G. Near rivulets at 1800 to 2000 ft. altitude 

 and 120 miles from the coast. 



Barro do 'D\^\)K.—Metroxylon spec. ? Colonial name Bordao grande. 

 A palm 30 to 40 ft., stem thick, rather smooth, leaves long-sheathing, 

 somewhat strict, pinnte 3 to 5 ft. long, midrib raised, spinulose ; 

 spadices very large, elliptico-cylindrical, pendulous. Berries lacquered- 

 red, obovate, covered with woody retrorse scales, one-seeded. Gregari- 

 ous in the river Dande. Pinnae gathered Nov. 1853. No. 6663. 



3. R. angolensis Rendle sp. nov. 



Among some palm fruits given to the British Museum by Dr. 

 Welwitsch in 1865 is a specimen which does not accord with any 

 hitherto described species. It is nearest to R. longiflora Mann &: 

 Wendl., but is a larger fruit and longer in proportion to its breadth, 

 4^ in. long by 1-^- in. thick, with pale brown almost square scales 

 darkening towards the blunt base, the largest slightly exceeding 

 |- in. each way; seed narrowly ellipsoid with a blunt almost 

 flattened apex and tapering very gi^adually from above the middle 

 to the base ; embryo ^V the distance from the top, rumination of 

 similar character but much rarer than in R. longiflora. 



Angola.— Received 1865. 



Pechuel-Loesche in his account of his Loango Expedition (iii. 

 p. 164) gives a new name without description {R. maxima) to a 

 palm which has a " long large fruit," and may, as Drude suggests, 

 (^.c, p. 128) be R. Hookeri or the one now in question or some other 

 long-fruited species. 



3. HYPHJENE Gaertn,; Benth, & Hook, f. Gen. PL iii, p, 940. 



1, H. guineensis Schum. in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk, iv. p, 219 

 (1829); Drude in Engl. Bot, Jahrb, xxi, p, 123 (1895); Durand 

 & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 461. 



H. coriacea Welw. (non Gaertn.) Apont. p. 584, No, 1 (1859), 



Ambriz. — Textile and wine-yielding. Maritime hills near Quizembo. 

 Nov. 1853. No. 6668. Called by the negroes Diteva Mateva. 



Barra do Dande. — Stem generally simple, 10 to 15 ft., more rarely 

 forked from the middle, or one branch may be twice forked forming 5 

 heads ; it also occupies large tracts of the coast of Angola, but is 

 almost acaulescent and never flowers. Spadices breaking from among 

 the leaves, nodding, soon pendulous. Outer perianth of male flower 

 tubular, erect, tripartite, subobtuse, thinner than the inner ; inner seg- 

 ments spreading, spathulate, concave with a dilated hoodlike tip, densely 

 striately veined, purplish on the outside, greenish-yellow inside. Drupes 

 as big as a fist, orange-purple, obconic-turbinate, sarcocarp fibrous 

 mixed with a little pulp which tastes like Cemtoiiia pods, has a 

 pleasant smell, and is eaten everywhere by negroes and monkeys. The 

 leaves are used for various domestic purposes. A social plant growing 

 in large num bers along long tracts of coast from Dande and Lif uae as 



