Pollia. | CXLIII. COMMELINACEE (CLARKE). 27 
300 ft., Quintas, 10! at Nova Moka, 2900 ft., Moller! Fl. Afr. Exsice. Conimbric., 
109 ! 
Part of Welwitsch, 6604, was referred by me erroneously to P. Manaii in DC, 
Monogr. Phan. iii. 124. 
2. P. condensata, (. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 125. 
Nearly glabrous. Stems 2-6 ft. long, thick. Leaves 12 by 3 in., lan- 
ceolate-obovate, acuminate at either end; petiole 0—} in. long. Panicle 
1} by 1} in., 20-40-flowered, dense ; bracts }-} in. long, ovate, obtuse, 
conspicuous on the young panicle, disappearing in fruit; peduncle 1-2 in. 
long, with sometimes a large oblong bract. Stamens 3 fertile. Capsule 
$+ by ¢ in., 24-seeded.—Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 421; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 134 ; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 
Par. i, 118, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xli. p.1; Cornu in Bull. Soe. 
Bot. France, xliii. 27 ; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 80; Rendle in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 74. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone; Talla Hil] Plateau, Scott-Elliot, 4851! near 
Dunnia, Scott-Elliot, 4363! Ashanti ; Assin-Yan-Kumassi, Cummins, 82! Came- 
roons: Efulen, Bates, 389! Fernando Po; 2000 ft., Mann, 93! Barter, 1518! 
Vogel, 7B ! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Uganda ; common in woods, Scott-Elliot, 
7370 ! 
Lower Guinea. Isle of St. Thomas: Obo de Macambrara, 4200 ft., Moller, 
12! Angolares, near Rio Salgado, Quintas, 12a! Fl. Afr. Exsice. Conimbric., 
110! Princes Island, Barter, 2020! Angola: Cazengo ; in the lofty woods of 
Muxaulo, Welwitsch, 6604 ! : ; 
Mozamb. Dist,? Eastern Africa: Mhonda, Sacleux, 1831 ! 
This was erroneously placed in Sect. Hu-Pollia (i.e., with 6 perfect stamens) in 
DC, Monogr, Phan. lc. It has since flowered at Kew, and Mr. Rolfe observed that 
the perfect stamens were 3 only (i.e., it is of Sect. Aclisia). 
2. PALISOTA, Reichb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 847. 
Sepals 3. Petals 3, small, obovate, white, sometimes tinged with 
rose or bluish. Stamens 3, perfect, the anther of the stamen of the 
interior whorl (anticous apparently middle of the three) somewhat un- 
like that of the other two, with curved or subdivergent cells ; staminodes 
2 or 3, with beaded hairs. Ovary 3-celled, the posticous cell often 
smaller ; ovules 8-1 in each cell. Fruit indehiscent. fleshy or succulent, 
often purple or red; seeds 2 superposed in each cell, or solitary, or 
more numerous and irregularly packed, pyramidal or trapezoid.—Stem 
simple, or nearly so, or hardly any. Leaves basal or in fale whorls, 
hairy when young, edges permanently and densely clothed with ferru- 
ginous hairs. Peduncle 1, rarely 2-3, quasi-terminal ; inflorescence a 
panicle, elongate or dense; flowers in small cymes, many functionally 
male, the lower pedicels of the cyme often early caducous, so that the 
upper part of the cyme-peduncle appears knotted. Bracts on the axis 
of the panicle short, except in P. bracteosa ; bracteoles small or 0. 
