D4 CXLIII, COMMELINACE® (CLARKE). (Commelina. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Tanganyika Plateau, 
2000-3000 ft., Whyte! Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 1tt., Whyte! Kondowe to 
Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Shire 
Highlands, Buchanan ! 
45. C. echinosperma, K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 135. 
Stems 12-18 in. high, erect, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 4-6 by 
4-2 in., lanceolate or elongate-lanceolate, glabrous or puberulous. 
Rpathe 2—} in. long, pubescent. Capsule 4 in. long, subquadrate. 
Seeds globose, ;4, in. in diam., chestnut-brown, farinose, echinate. 
Wozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Unyamwezi ; Gonda (Igonda), Kakoma, 
Boehm, 2, 8. 
K. Schumann does not say that the seeds are 4, but he places the species in Sect. 
Dissecocarpus. The subquadrate capsule implies 4 seeds. 
46. C.capitata, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl.541. Nearly glabrous, 
except the spathes. Stems 1-3 ft. long. Leaves up to 5 by 1-1? in., 
varying from broadly-oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, subrhomboid, 
unequal-sided at the base. Spathes 3-8, collected into a quasi-terminal 
head, 3-1 in. long, obliquely obovate ; margins free nearly to the base, 
densely ciliate with rutous hairs, or nearly glabrate. Flowers yellow 
(or white, H. H. Johnston). Capsule oblong, 4-seeded. Seeds 4—} in. 
long, cylindric, deeply pitted.—C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 
176; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. F). Afr.v.424; Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 269; 
Durand & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 875 
Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 78. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: east side of Lake Albert Edward, Scott- 
Elliot, 8027 ! 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 772! Sierra Leone : Luseniya, Scott- 
Elliot, 4080 ! and without precise locality, 4fzelius ! Smeathman! Morson! Hart! 
Liberia : Cape Palmas, Vogel, 52! Lagos, Moloney, 9! Niger Territory: New 
Calabar, at Degema, Holland, 125! Cross River, Johnston! Cameroons: Victoria, 
Kalbreyer, 17! Cameroon Mountain, upper slopes, Johnston, 97! Bipinde, Zenker, 
1143! Yaunde, Zenker g Staudt, 687! Efulen, Bates, 442! Batanga, Bates ! 
Fernando Po, Mann, 91! ; 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Bingila, Dupuis ! Angola ; Pungo Andongo ; 
in the shady woods of Barranco de Pedra Songue, 3300 ft., Welwitsch, 6647 ! 
Also in the West Indies. : 
The two examples from the West Indies I have seen are probably of one collection, 
and the locality on the ticket is possibly an error. 
47. C, rufociliata, C. B. Clarke. Hairy. Stems 18 in. long. 
Leaves 4 by 1 in., elliptic-lanceolate, when mature hairy on both sur- 
faces ; base unequal, narrowed above the leaf-sheath, rufous-ciliate. 
Spathes densely clustered at the ends of the branches, broadly and 
obliquely funnel-shaped, hairy, varying much in size(in one head from } to 
1 in, long); margins connate at the base, often for }-} in. Corolla 
blue. Capsule scarcely t in. long, subquadrate, 4-seeded. Seeds hardly, 
longer than broad, small, obscurely reticulate-wrinkled. , 
