Musa] IV. SCITAMINER. 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, sapientum, 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 lacinie as 
those of the cultivated J/usa. The stem is more or less ventricose 
a little above-ground in all older specimens. It is the Adansonia of 
Scitaminee. Fruit almost entirely filled with black seeds mixed with 
avery little pulp and by no means edible. In damp rocky places, 
aa by streams and cataracts near Pungo Andongo. CoLt. 
ARP. 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. Pl. iii. p. 662. 
1, A. sativus Schult, f. in Roem. & Schult. Syst. vii. p. 1283 (1830); 
Baker Handb. Bromel. p. 22; Mez in DC. Mon. Phan. ix. p. 164. 
Gotunco AtTo.—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- 
where for its fruit. Sange ; Aug. 1856. No. 4007. See Apont. p. 544. 
VI. HAMODORACES. 
1. SANSEVIERIA Thunb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 
p. 679. 
1. S. bracteata Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 253 (1878). 
IcoLo EB BENGO and Loanpa.—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, 14 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. 3750. 
Punco ANDoNGo.—Leaves very rigid, green, white-spotted, red- 
margined ; flowers white. In rather dry rocky lofty places of the 
presidium, towards the south, but rarely flowering although not 
unplentiful. In fl. Jan. 1857. No. 3751. 
Very near S. longiflora Sims. 
2. S, angolensis Welw. ex Hook. in Rep. Paris. Fxhib. 1855 
Pt. iii, p. 146 (1856). 
S. cylindrica Bojer Hort. Maur. (1837) 349 (nomen nudum) ; 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5093 (1859); Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xiv. p. 549; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 140. 
Loanpa.—Native name “Tfi” ; used for making ropes. A perennial 
herb with a thick woody root, and erect and runciform almost cylindrical 
