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in rocky places near rivulets, Welwitsch , 6447 ! Differs from all 
the other species of this section by its entire petals. M . africana , 
Bull. Cat. 1871, 6, is probably this species in a young state. 
3 . M. Buehanani, Baker. Nearly allied to M. Ensete , but the bracts 
linear-oblong, in Buchanan’s specimens i-i| ft. long, 2J-4 in. 
broad. Flowers 10 in a row. Ovary cylindrical, above an 
inch long. Unexpanded calyx cylindrical, as long as the ovary. 
Seeds as large as those of M. Ensete , glossy, black, not 
tubercled. Shir£ highlands, Buchanan , 47, of 1885 collection ! 
Sir John Kirk saw the seeds from the Shir 6 valley, at a height 
of 2000 ft. above sea-level. 
4 . M. Livingstoniana, Kirk, in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX, 128. Stem 
conical, twice the height of a man, 2-3 ft. diam. at the base. 
Leaves narrow oblong, crowded, as long as the trunk, with 
a short broad-clasping deeply channelled petiole. Fruit many- 
seeded, 4 in. long. Seeds globose, angled by pressure in the 
lower half, J in. diameter, dull brown, tubercled, with a 
depressed hilum, surrounded by prominent edges. South-east 
Tropical Africa from 1 2 0 to 19 0 south latitude, ascending to 
7000 ft. Known to us only from Sir John Kirk’s sketches 
and notes, and seeds which he brought home. There is 
a necklace of similar seeds in the Kew Museum, brought by 
Barter from Sierra Leone. 
5 . M. proboscidea, Oliver, in Hook. Ic. t. 1777. Not stoloniferous. 
Trunk dilated at the base, reaching 4-5 times the height of 
a man. Leaves narrow oblong, very large, 3-4 times as 
long as broad, narrowed to the base ; free petiole, short, 
deeply channelled. Panicle-rachis finally drooping, very much 
elongated, nearly as long as the trunk ; bracts broad ovate, 
obtuse, about 4 times as long as the flowers ; flowers in two 
close rows of about 12 in a row. Calyx as long as the 
cylindrical ovary ; petal very short, with two orbicular outer 
lobes and a large linear central cusp. Seeds turbinate, black, 
glossy, J in. long and broad, with only a small hollow at the 
hilum. Hills of Ukami, about 100 miles inland from Zanzibar. 
Known only from seeds and four photographs procured by 
Sir John Kirk. 
6. M. superba, Roxb. FIort.Beng. 19; Corom. Plants, t. 2234 Wright, 
Ic. t. 2017; Graham, in Bot. Mag. t. 3489-3450; Kerner, 
