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to spikes; while in C. trigyna (Schweinfurth, 782, 1050; &c.) the branches of the 
linear panicle are compound cymulose. 
5. C. pandurata, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897,276. Stem erect, 
23 ft. high, divided, thinly hairy. Lower leaves long-petioled ; blade 3-4 
in. long, pandurate, sub-3-lobed, the two lateral lobes ovate or oblong, 
1} in. long. Panicles $ to 4 in. long, 4 in. broad, condensed into 
continuous somewhat dense pseudospikes, scarious, straw-coloured, in 
fruit fuscous. Perianth } in. long; segments oblong, acute, when 
young l-nerved or obscurely nerved, in fruit sometimes strongly 5- 
nerved. Filaments linear, without interjected teeth; anthers oblong. 
Style longer than 4 the capsule, with 2 ascending linear branches. 
Capsule nearly as long as the perianth, usually about 3-seeded.—C. 
cuneifolia, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 296 partly (i.e. as to Meller’s 
example which has the lower leaves 3-lobed). 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Musa, Holst, 3124! 
Portuguese East Africa: below Shigogo on the Lower Zambesi, Kirk! lower part 
of the Shire Valley, Meller ! 
6. C. loandensis, Paker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 277. A nearly 
glabrous rambler, the numerous elongate panicle-bearing branches 
springing at right angles from a main branch. Leaves petioled; blade 
13-2 in. long, ovate-lanceolate. Inflorescences 2—6 by 4-3 in. ; lateral 
cymes small, few-flowered, or often 1—flowered, not confluent. Perianth 
% in. long; segments oblong, acute, scarious, straw-coloured, on the 
back many-nerved, often somewhat fuscous. Filaments linear, without 
interjected teeth ; anthers oblong. Style hardly half the length of the 
young capsule, with 2 long ascending branches. Capsule about as long 
as the perianth, usually 2—3-seeded.—C. laxa, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 885 partly, not of Schumacher. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith! Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 65373 ! 
Gossweiler, 363! Golungo Alto, 1000-2400 ft., Welwitsch, 6578. 
The styles I find in these plants uniformly 2-fid. But the plants will not match 
C. laxa in habit or inflorescence. 
7. C. macrocarpa, Volkens ex Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 6. 
Glabrous. Leaves 14 by 3% in., ovate, acute; base truncate or almost 
cordate, shortly decurrent; petiole hardly } in. long. Spikes long, 
linear, rather dense, the flower-clusters hardly pedicelled. Capsule 
ovoid, nearly + in. long, inflated. 
Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro; 4500 ft., Volkens, 2244! 
From the fragments seen in Herb. Schinz, this species must bear a close general 
resemblance to C. loandensis, Baker. 
8. C. stuhlmanniana, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 419. 
Glabrous. Leaves alternate; blade 24 by ? in., elliptic-lanceolate, base 
cuneate, tip lanceolate, acuminate; petiole } in. long. Spikes axillary, 
1-2 together, peduncled, linear, 4 in, long, apparently simple; flowers 
