218 CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF GAZALAND. 
Dircapi урек, Mench, Meth. Suppl. 267. | 
Near Chirinda 3500-8800 ft. ; in fl. Oct. ; n. 59. 
Distrib. East tropical Africa ; South Africa. 
URGINEA ALTISSIMA, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe., Bot. xiii. (1872) 221. 
Near Chirinda, 3800 ft.; in fl. & fr. Apr. ; n. 321a. 
Distrib. Tropical and South Africa. 
SCILLA RIGIDIFOLIA, Kunth, Enum. iv. 330. 
Northern Melsetter, 5000-6000 ft.; in fl. Oet.; nn. 6058, 6226: Mt. 
Pene, 7000 ft.; in fl. & fr. Ось. ; n. 6054. 
Distrib. Angola, German East Africa; South Africa. А small herb with 
white flowers, fairly common amongst the short grass of the mountains. 
S. INDICA, Baker in Saund. Ref. Dot. iii. App. 12. 
Mt. Pene, 6500-7000 ft. ; in fl. Sept., Oct. ; nn. 767, 6055. 
Instrib, East tropical Africa; also India and Ceylon. A small herb of 
the open grass veld. Flowers green and purplish. The leaves are broader 
and less tapering below than in typical specimens of this species; and the 
Mt. Pene plants may perhaps represent a distinct species, 
GLORIOSA SUPERBA, Linn, Sp. Pl. 305. 
Chipetzana River, 3000 ft. ; in Я. Apr.: Kurumadzi River, Jihu district, 
2000 ft. ; in fl. Jan. ; n. 716: Chirinda outskirts, 3800 ft.; in fl. Dec. ; 
nn. 6507, 6509. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa, Transvaal ; also Tropical Asia. 
COMMELINACEAL. 
COMMELINA LIVINGSTONII, C. В. Clarke in DC. Mon. Phan. iii. 190. 
Kurumadzi River, 2000 ft.; in fl. Nov. ; п. 762. А common herb, wild 
in cultivated ground ; flowers cobalt-blue. 
Distrib. East tropical and South Africa. 
ANKILEMA SINICUM, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 659. 
Chirinda Forest, 3700—4000 ft. ; in fl. Мау; n. 765: Kurumadzi River, 
2000 ft. : in fl. & fr. Nov. ; n. 763: Madanda forests, 400 ft.; in fl. & fr. 
Dee. ; n. 756. 
Distrib. A common Tropical African weed ; also South Africa and Asia. 
FLoscorA GLOMERATA, //assk. Commel. Jnd. 166. 
Chirinda, 3700 ft. ; in fl. & fr. June; n. 764: Upper Buzi, 3000 ft. ; in 
Н. & fr. Apr. ; n. 761. In swampy ground ; flowers dull purple. 
Distrib. South tropical Africa; South Africa ; Mascarene Islands. 
