"TZ ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. Ruphia- 
B. Male flowers very similar to the female ones. 
A large palm producing an immense erect inflorescence, divided 
into long pendulous floriferous branchlets; spikes strongly 
flattened, having the male and female flowers very closely and 
regularly bifarious. 
20. R. regalis Becc. 
1. RapHia Rurria Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 217; Boce. in Agric. Colon. iv. 
(1910) t. 1. and in Webbia iti, (1910) 47, f. 1. and Palme del Madag. 55, and the 
figure on the title page. 
R. lyciosa and R. polymita Comm. ex Kunth, Enum. Pl. in, 217. 
R. tamatawensis Sadebeck in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi, (1905) 354. 
Madagascar, especially on the West coast. 
RarHiA Rurria Mart. var PEDUNCULATA Becc. in Webbia, l. c. 56, f. 
2 Aud an Agno. Colon. L.c& t L 59 
R. pedunculata P. Beauv. in Desv. Journ. Bot. ii, 87 and Fl. Oware 
et Benm bL 15.4 44, E 2. and L 49, kL € 
Madagascar. East coast? 
2. RaPHura Kirk Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. A (1895) 10; Bece. Agric. Colon. 
Low t IRL. 12 aud m Webbia L c. 58. 
R. — STA Se in Sadebeck in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi (1905), 370, 
S. E. Tropieal Africa. 
- Rapata Krigkn var. LoNGICARPA Bece. in Agric. Colon. l. oc. t. II, f. 
3—4. and in Webbia I. c. 63. : | 
S. E. Tropical Africa. Ukamba, Pangani River and Zanzibar. 
Rapma Kirk var. GRANDIS Bece. in Borie. Caon. Lc. t. IL E 
5--6, and in Webbia I. c. 64. 
S. E. Tropieal Africa. Nyasaland and Zanzibar. 
3. RAPHIA LONGIFLORA Mann et Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv, 438, t. 39, 
LUE and t 49, £ E; Boco: in Webbia L e, 66, fig. 7, Il, a, 5. 
The Island of. Corisco in the Gulf of Guinea. 
4. RaprHiA Laurenti De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent i, 26, t. WIL VIII. 1X. X. 
and f. 6; Becc. in Webbia, l. c. 68 p. 6 V. a. b 
Lower Belgian Congo at Eala. 
f 5. RapHia Mansi Becc. in Agric. Colon. iv, (1910), t. VI, t. 8—9, and in 
Webba, be: 70, E 8.H a, b c. : 
A West Tropical Africa. Old Calabar River. : 
6. Rapnia\rExTILIS Welw. Apont. 584 (1858) et Synopse expl. ete. (1862), 39 ; 
* ‘ Bece. in Agric. Colon. iv, (1910) t. III, f. 1, 2, 3, and in Webbia, Ll c. 73, f. 8, 
HE. a, b ; 
HR. Welwitschii Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc., xxiv (1863), 439, t. 42, f. B. 
Lower Guinea at Angola. 
