60 CXLIII, COMMELINACEAY (CLARKE). | Commelina. 
white-hispid ; margins shortly connate at the base. Flowers deep blue 
(Schweinfurth). Capsule 4 in, long, 2-seeded. Seeds § in. long, sub- 
globose, smooth.—Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 189. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2027! 
Kurshook-Ali’s Seriba, Schweinfurth, 1601! 
This may prove to be only a 2-seeded form of C. bracteosa ; it has larger leaves, 
smaller capsule and seeds, More material of both species is desirable. 
65. C. pyrrhoblepharis, HWassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 
209, 295. Stems 2 ft. long (at least), rooting freely by stout roots 
from the lower nodes; internodes up to + in. long, robust, glabrate. 
Leaves attaining 54 by 2 in., broadly elliptic, acuminate, when mature 
minutely pubescent, unequally and rather suddenly narrowed at the base 
into a quasi-petiole 0-} in. Jong; leaf-sheaths often with long rufous 
hairs at the mouth. Spathes 2 or 3, near together at the ends of the 
branches, hardly exserted from the leaf-sheaths, 3-3 in. long, very 
broadly ovate, shortly acute, slightly hairy; margins connate at the 
base for } in. Flowers blue. Capsule small, 2-seeded. Seeds 33, in. 
long, round-ellipsoid, smooth._—C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 
190; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 155; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 
F). Afr. v. 427. (©. acuminata, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 63, 
pave wae not of H. B, K. C. saltiana, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 
n. 402. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Lotho, 7000-8000 ft., Schimper, 591! 1591! Mount 
Sholoda, 6700 ft., Schimper, 341 ; Adowa, Quartin-Dillon & Petit. Gondar, Rochet 
@ Héricourt ! and without precise locality, Plowden ! 
Hasskarl does not describe the capsule, nor does he cite the number of Schimper 
he had. So far as his description goes of the large leaves with red hairs at the mouth 
of the leaf-sheaths and turbinate clustered spathes, his plant might have been the large 
state of C. benghalensis, which Schimper, 1591, closely resembles. The species really 
stands on the assumption that Plowden’s examples (which contained one capsule) are 
truly conspecific with Schimper, 1591. 
66. C, obscura, K. Schum. in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 135. Hairy; 
small. Stems 4-6 in. long, weak, branched, annual, rooting at the 
lower nodes ; internodes 1-1} in. long. Leaves 1} by § in., elliptic- 
oblong, shortly acute, when mature hairy on both surfaces ; leaf-sheaths 
with long spreading red hairs. Spathes 1~} in. long, solitary, on very 
short peduncles, ovate, hardly acute. Petals blue or rarely violet 
(A. Schumann). Capsule 4 in. long, quadrate, 2-seeded. Seeds sub- 
globose, somewhat wrinkled. 
_ Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5000 ft., 
Volkens, 2267! 633! 
K. Schumann has referred this plant to the Section Dissecocarpus, but I find 
only 2 seeds to the capsule, 
Imperfectly known species. 
67. C. grossa, U. B. Clarke. Nearly glabrous. Stems 6—10 in. 
long, erect, bearing 1 or 2 leaves and 1 peduncle. ‘Leaves up to 14 by 
