Commelina. | CXLIII, COMMELINACEE (CLARKE). 59 
branch ; internodes 1-2} in.long. Leaves 4 by } in., linear, acuminate, 
acute. Spathe scarcely exserted from the leaf-sheath, $—? by 1 in, 
very acute, curved, hairy ; margins hardly connate at the base. Petals. 
blue, # by ? in., exclusive of the claw. Capsule small, 3-seeded, the 
dorsal cell smaller, indehiscent. Seeds ;4, in. in diam., globose (some- 
what tetrahedral), smooth, brown. 
Wile Land. British Somaliland : Golis Range, Miss Edith Cole ! 
Separate expanded flowers have been carefully dried ; they must be unusually 
large and bright. The stamens, barren and fertile, are just as those of C. nudiflora, 
Linn, (and numerous other species), but larger. 
62. C. Livingstoni, (. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 190. 
Nearly glabrous, or somewhat hairy, Stems 1-2 ft. long, sometimes 
robust, suberect from a stout base, straggling, branched ; internodes 
2-5 in. long. Leaves 54 by } in., lanceolate, narrowed at either end. 
Peduncles 1 (or 2, rarely 3, close together) at the end of a branch, hardly 
longer than the leaf-sheaths. Spathes attaining 1 by 1} in., shortly 
acuminate, acute, nearly glabrous; margins connate for j—} in. at 
the base. Petals blue. Capsule } in. long, obovoid compressed, 2- 
seeded. Seeds } in. long, ellipsoid, brown, smooth.—Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 
11; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 426. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Witu; Mkanumbi, Gregory! Rabai Hills, 
near Mombasa, Taylor. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., Johnston ! 
Portuguese East Africa: Zambesi Delta ; near Vicente, Scott! Lower Zambesi ; 
between Lupata and Sena, Kirk! between Lupata and Tete, Kirk! Tete, Kirk! 
near Sena, Kirk! Lower Shire Valley; near the foot of Morambala Mountain, Kirk ! 
Matabeleland, Elliott ! 
Also in South Africa. 
63. C. Zenkeri, C. B. Clarke. Sparsely hairy. Stems cxspitose 
from a stout base, up to 12 in. long, branched, decumbent and rooting 
at the lower nodes; internodes up to 3 in. long but mostly short. 
Leaves 2 by 1-1} in., ovate, shortly acute, suddenly narrowed at the 
base, sessile. Peduncles solitary, few, scattered, exserted 0—{ in. from 
the leaf-sheaths. Spathes $-3 by 1 in., hardly acute, minutely pubes- 
cent or glabrate; margins very shortly connate at the base. Petals 
blue when dry. Capsule 1 in. long, quadrate, compressed, 2-seeded. 
Seeds nearly } in. long, ellipsoid, smooth. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 432! 
Distributed from Berlin Herbarium as C. ethiopica, C. B. Clarke ; but it is not 
that species. 
64. C. wthiopica, (. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 189. 
Nearly glabrous. Stems 8-14 in. long, suberect, cespitose, thick at 
the base; internodes 1-2} in. long. Leaves 3} by #-1 in., broadly 
oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at the base into a very short pseudo-petiole. 
Peduncles solitary or 2 at the end of a branch, hardly longer than the 
leaf-sheath. Spathes } by 1 in., acute, hardly acuminate, sparsely 
