Raphia] XVII. PALMA, 83 
2. R. textilis Welw. Apont. p. 584 No. 2 (1859) ; Synops. Explic. 
p. 39 (1862). 
R. Welwitschit Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv., p. 439, t. 42 B. 
(1864); Drude, Jc.; Durand & Schinz, dc. 
Metroxilon textile Welw. Apont., lc. 
Gotunco ALTO.—No. 6666; Delamboa, Dec. 1855. No. 6671. 
Couu. Carp. 1054, 1056. Near rivulets at 1800 to 2000 ft. altitude 
and 120 miles from the coast. 
Barro do Danpe.— Metrozylon spec. ? Colonial name Bordaé grande. 
A palm 30 to 40 ft., stem thick, rather smooth, leaves long-sheathing, 
somewhat strict, pinne 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. Pinne 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 &. longiflora Mann & 
Wendl., but isa larger fruit and longer in proportion to its breadth, 
41 in. long by 1} in. thick, with pale brown almost square scales 
darkening towards the blunt base, the largest slightly exceeding 
3 in. each way; seed narrowly ellipsoid with a blunt almost 
flattened apex and tapering very gradually from above the middle 
to the base; embryo § 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 (A. maxima) to a 
palm which has a “long large fruit,” and may, as Drude suggests, 
(1.c., p. 128) be &. Hookeri or the one now in question or some other 
long-fruited species. 
3, HYPHANE 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 DanpE.—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 Ceratonia 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 numbers along long tracts of coast from Dande and Lifune as 
