Commelina. | CXLIII. COMMELINACE® (CLARKE). 49 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 2136! 
Var. 8 Lyallii, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 168. Rather stouter, 
Peduncles a little longer. Seeds slightly pitted, not distinctly reticulated.—C. am- 
plexicaulis, Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 203, 295; Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 423? C. edulis, A. Rich., forsan var. ex C. B. Clarke in DC. 
Monogr. Phan. iii. 165. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen ; Kabere, 10,000 ft., Schimper, 573! Ankober, 
Roth, 175! and without precise locality, Plowden ! 
Also in Madagascar. 
31. C. Kotschyi, Hussk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 207, 295. 
Nearly glabrous. Leaves 21 by 2 in., subsessile, very little narrowed 
at the base; margins often crenulated. Spathes 2 (or 3-1) near the 
ends of the branches, exserted scarcely 4 in. from the leaf-sheaths, 
2-3 in. long, very broadly ovate, obtuse or with a very short point 
(not acuminate) ; margins free or very shortly and obscurely connate at 
the base. Petals intensely blue (Welwitsch). Capsule more than } in. 
long, quadrate-oblong, constricted in the middle, flat; the dorsal-cell 
absent, or rudimentary, or small and 1-seeded. Seeds } in. long or 
rather more, cylindric-ellipsoid, smooth, brown.—C. B. Clarke in DC. 
Monogr, Phan. iii. 173; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 426; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 135, partly ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. ii. 77. CO. Forskailii, Hochst. ex C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. iii. 173. Dissecocarpus Kotschyi, Hassk. ex C. B. Clarke in DC. 
Monogr. Phan. iii. 173. 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy, 34! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Barra do Bengo; between Teba and Cacuaco, 
Welwitsch, 6624! Loanda; near Quicuxe, Welwitsch, 6614! in the dense thickets 
of Alto das Cruzes, Welwitsch, 6620 ! 
32. C. imberbis, Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 209, 295. 
Nearly glabrous, even to the mouths of the leaf-sheaths. Stems 
1-2 ft. high, suberect at the base, with internodes 2-3 in. long; roots 
long, rather thick. Leaves 5 in. long, varying from 14-} in. in 
breadth, from ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate; the upper sessile 
dilated (often rounder or auricled) at the base. Peduncles few, 
Scattered, exserted 4-1} in. from the leaf-sheaths. Spathes 1-1} by 
1} in., very broadly ovate, triangular acute at the tip, green, nearly 
glabrous, not conspicuously nerved; margins free, or very nearly so. 
Corolla blue. Capsule 1-4 in. long, oblong-quadrate, 4-seeded. Seed 
ellipsoid, brown, obscurely wrinkled or pitted (nearly smooth).— 
C. latifolia, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 175, partly. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: lower part of Damas Valley, 1600 ft., Schweinfurth & 
Riva, 1181! Abyssinia: Tigre; Melata, 5000 ft., Schimper, 576! Mount Sholod:, 
near Adowa, Quartin-Dillon Sf Petit, 13! Soudan, Fenton ! Somaliland : Darror, 
James § Thrupp ! Harradigit, James § Thrupp! British East Africa: Machakos, 
Hinde! Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Zaylor ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt,1054! British Central Africa : Lake 
Tanganyika, Cameron ! Kavala Islands, Carson, 24! 25! Nyasaland ; Kondowe to 
Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Ngamiland; Kwebe, Lugard, 146! 244! 
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