216 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA, 
RapPHIA Hookert var. ANGUSTATA Becc. in Agric. Colon. l. c. t. III, 
f. 7, and in Webbia, I. c. 116. 
Interior West Africa. 
RapHIA Hookert var. MANcIPIORUM Becc. in Agric. Colon. l. c. t. 
IV, f. 6, and im Webba I. c. 117. 
Gold Coast and Slave Coast. 
18. RarHia ANGOLENSIS Rendle in Hiern and Rendle Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii, 
83; Becc: in Agric. Colon. l. e. t. IIT, f. 4’ and in Webbia, L c. 119. 
Lower Portuguese Guinea, Angola. 
19. RapHia Sese De Wild. Miss. Laurent, 28. t. XI, XII; Becc. in Webbia, 
bow or dy ay & 
Lower Belgian Congo. 
20. RaPHrA REGALIS Boce. in Webbia, L c. 125 t. I. 
Near Nschaggebod in French Congo. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
RAPHIA MAXIMA Pechuel Loesche, Loango Expedition iii, 164. Bece. in 
Webbia, |. c. 127 (=. Hookeri Mann et Wendl.) 
West Africa at Yumba, Loango Coast, in French Congo. 
| Ancistrophyllum Mann et Wendl. 
Mann et Wendl. in Kerch. Les Palm. 230 et in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv, 432, 
C w D 41 G 430 (Calami subzenus); Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. Di, 937; 
- Wright in Th. Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. viii, (1902), 113; Becc.: in Webbia, iii. (1910), 
249. Laccosperma Mann et Wendl. in Kerch. Les Palm. 249. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
A. Leaflets elongate. more or less sigmoid or at least with  falcate apices, 
. having 1—2 main nerves ciliate-spinulous on the upper surface. 
Flowers cylindraceous, very suddenly  obsoletely ‘apiculate. Seed 
smooth, flattish on the raphal side. 
1. A. secundiflorum Wendl. 
Flowers fusiform acuminate. Seed smooth. concave on the raphal side. 
2. A. acutifloruni Becc. 
. B. Leaflets sigmoidal, with 1 or more main nerves smooth on the upper 
surface. i ; 
Leaflets very unequal and inequidistant or nearly grouped, short, 
2—3 or up to 6—9 cm. broad, having 1-4 main nerves, 
the margins ciliate spinulous. Flowers thiekly fusiform, acute 
seed boldly tubercled, deeply excavate on the raphal side. 
3. A. opacum Wendl. 
Leaflets inequidistant or nearly grouped, elongate-sigmoidal or faleiform, 3—4, 
em. broad, mostly 32-costulate or at times l-costulate, the margins smooth. 
Flowers narrowly fusiform, acuminate. 
4. A. laeve Wendl. 
