698 



Months' Guinea Yam," " The Yellow or Twelve Months' Guinea 



Yam," etc. " Yields of the Leaser Yam and of some African 



Yams," Idem, I.e. Sept. 12th, 1919, pp. 159-165. 



IILIACEAE. 



• Sansevieria, Thunb. 



Sansevieria metallica, Ger. & Labr. in Bull. Mus. Nat. Paris, 



1903, pp. 170, 173; Kew Bull. 1915, p. 245. [S. guineensis. 

 Baker, FL Trop. Afr. vii. p. 33.] 



A perennial plant with a creeping rootstock. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, smooth, strap-shaped, l|-5 ft. long. 2-5 in. broad, dark 

 green, more or less banded or blotched with pale green. In- 

 florescence l|-4 ft, high ending in a lax racemose head. Flowers 

 in clusters 2-4 in each, white, with pedicels 2-3 in. long. 



. Jll^ — Kew Bull. May 1887, p. 5, f. 1 {S. guineensis); Ann. 

 Inst. Col. Marseille, 1902, t. 1 (>S'. guineensis); De Wildeman, 

 PL Util. Congo, p. 625, f , 2 ; p. 629 {S. guineensis, section of leaf) ; 

 Bull. Mus. Nat. Paris, 1903, p. 173, f. 2; Notizbl. Bot. Gart. 

 BerUn, 7th Nov. 1909, App. xxii. No. 2, p. 52, f . 20 {S. guineensis) ; 



Afr 



Kew Bull. 



1915, p. 246, f. 20 (var. nyasica). 



Bowstring Hemp. 



Native of Tropical Africa — Nupe ? (Barter's No. 1508, from 

 Nupe, Herb. Kew — '* Common plant in hot rocky places; leaves 

 often 4 or 5 ft. long/' may belong here) ; cultivated in the tropical 

 Botanic Gardens in the Empire, distributed from Kew. 



This plant is regarded as being identical with that widely 

 cultivated as 8. guineensis (Kew Bull. I.e.), Yields a fibre suitable 



information 



Sansevieria trifasciata, 



Kew Bull. 1915, p. 239. 



1054; 



with 



Leaves in groups of 1-2 or 2-6; 1-4 ft. long, 1-2| in. broad; 

 coriaceous, Hnear-lanceolate or strap-shaped, narrowing towards 

 the base into a channeKed petiole, transversely banded with 

 varying shades of green. Inflorescence 1-2| ft. high. Flowers 

 in clusters 3-8 in each, pale-greenish or greenish -white, with 

 pedicels 2^4 hn. long. A variety Laurentii, N.E. Br. is described 

 as having leaves longitudinally striped with golden yellow^ 

 otherwise exactly as in the type. 



III. — Jacq. Hort. Bot. Vindob. i. t. 84 {Aletns guineensis)) 

 Bull. Mus. Nat. Paris, 1903, p. 172, f. 1 [8. guineensis); De 

 "VVildeman, PI. Util. Congo, p. 624, f. 1. [8. guineensis)) Mission 

 E. Laurent, p. clvi. {8. guineensis); p. 45, ff. 9-10 {8, Laurentii); 

 Rev. Hort. Beige, 1904, p. 169 {8. Laurentii). 



Bowstring Hemp. 



West Africa— Oban, S. Nigeria (Talbot, Herb. Kew) : Ogu- 

 rude. S. Nigeria (HoUand, No. 270, 1899, Herb. Kew) probably 



