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middle, moderately firm, glabrous. Flowers usually solitary on short 
slender radical peduncles, with 1—2 large membranous sheathing bract- 
leaves. Calyx subcylindrical, 14 in. long, shortly toothed, and finally 
shortly slit down one side. Corolla-tube rather longer than the calyx ; 
lobes lanceolate, 14 in. long. Staminodia more than twice as long as 
the corolla-lobes, usually bright red-purple, drying to violet, with a 
yellow throat, rarely all pale yellow ; lateral staminodia obovate-cuneate ; 
l in. broad ; lip rounded at the apex, deeply emarginate, 2 in. broad ; 
fertile stamen shorter than the corolla-lobes ; anther } in. long, with a 
small truncate crest.—Var. angustifolia, Ridley in Journ. Bot. 1887, 
131. Cienkowskia ethiopica, Solms in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Ethiop. 197, 
©. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 876! Gold Coast: Salaga, Krause ! 
north bank of the Gambia River, Ozanne ! Lagos: Yoruba; common in grassy places 
from Oyo to Illorin, Barter, 3427! Southern Bornu: Musgu, Vogel, 99! 
Nile Land. Senaar, Cienkowski. Galabat: banks of the River Gendua, 
Schweinfurth, 1341! Abyssinia: Woina, Steudner, 496! British East Africa: Jur ; 
Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 131! 1863! Kibwezi, Scott-Elliot, 6299 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; near Conde, Welwitsch, 683! 
Mechow, 244, 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: east shore of Lake Tanganyika, Scott- 
Elliot, 8217! between Uyui and the coast, Taylor ! Unyamwezi; Msalala, Hanning- 
ton! Rovuma River, Kirk ! Portuguese East Africa: Morambala mountain, Kirk! 
British Central Africa : Urungu; Fwambo, Carson, 115! Nyasaland ; Karonga, Carson, 
1890! between Lake Tanganyikaand Lake Nyasa, Johnston! Manganja Hills, Meller ! 
Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 247! 248! Mandala, Scott-Elliot, 8546! between 
Blantyre and Metope, 2000 ft., Scott ! near Mount Sochi, 3000 ft., Kirk ! 
3. K. rosea, Schweinf. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 642. 
Leaves about 4, with long distinct channelled petioles, not fused into 
a false stem; blade moderately firm, glabrous, usually oblong, acute, 
under a foot long, 4-5 in. broad. Flowers many, racemed at the apex 
of a long slender peduncle, contemporary with the leaves; bracts 
oblong, brown, membranous, 4—1 in. long ; pedicels very short. Calyx 
funnel-shaped, 4 in. long, deeply 3-lobed. Corolla-tube twice as long 
2 rege : 
as the calyx; lobes oblong, 4-2 in. long. Staminodia more than twice 
as long as the corolla-lobes, light or dark pink, with two dark spots at 
the throat, rarely white or yellow ; lateral 4—ł in. broad; lip emar- 
ginate, 14-2 in. broad; fertile stamen not longer than the corolla- 
lobes ; anther-cells 4 in. long. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1946, 
ser. iii, 205! Niamniam; Gumango Hill, Schweinfurth, 3878! Nyika country, near 
Mombasa, Wakefield! Hildebrandt, 2014! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: plains above Bagamoyo, Kirk! between 
Uyui and the coast, Taylor! Rovuma River, Kirk! Meller! Portuguese East 
Africa: Lower Shire Valley, Kirk! between Sena and the Shire River, Kirk! 
between Lupata and Sena, Kirk! Mozambique, Forbes! British Central Africa : 
Nyasaland ; Chimapas Village, Nicholson! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 157! Scott- 
Elliot, 8636! Mandala, Scott-Elliot, 8547! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 
Zomba and vicinity, 2500-3500 ft., Whyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanan ! 
501! 650! Scott! 
