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Inflorescence very loose. : : . 9. A. ovato-oblongum, 
Inflorescence dense, 
Leaves sessile, base rounded. 
Medium-sized plant; leaves up to 23 in. 
long . . 10. A. somaliense. 
Plant 5in. high; Jeaves up to 1} in. 
long . ; : : : 11. A. Smiths. 
Base of leaves acuminate into a pseudo- 
petiole. 
Panicle glabrate ; : c . 12. A. dregeanum. 
Panicle patently hispid : . 13. A. Nicholsoni. 
Leaves lanceolate-oblong to linear (sometimes 
elliptic in A. Welwitschii). 
Inflorescence lax. 3 : : . 14. A. Petersit. 
Inflorescence dense. 
Stem erect at the base ; roots thick. 
Flowering stem with few reduced leaves 15. A. Schweinfurthii. 
Flowering stem with many well-devel- 
oped leaves. 
Minutely pubescent . ; - 16. A. Welwitschii, 
Hispid . ; : ; . 17..A. soudanicum. 
Stem decumbent or rooting at the lower 
nodes ; roots fibrous. 
. Many pedicels sterile, ended by a black 
rudiment . : : . 18. A. Whyte. 
Sterile pedicels none (or very few occa- 
sionally). 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, very long . 19. 4. lanceolatum. 
Leaves lanceolate . - : . 20. A. Speket. 
Leaves linear, hardly 2 in. long . 21. A. gracile. 
{++Pseudo-axillares—Panicles appearing irregularly scattered, all terminal, but 
not rarely on remote short axillary branches. 
Leaves 1-2 in. long. 
Inflorescences of very many flowers ¢ : . 22. A. pedunculosum. 
Inflorescences of about 8 flowers. : A . 23. A. Clarket. 
Leaves at most 3 in. long . ; ‘ ‘ : . 24. A. Taylori. 
1. A. sinicum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 659. Nearly glabrous. Roots 
occasionally bearing tubers. Stems 1-3 ft. long, sparingly leafy. Leaves 
linear, 8-18 by 1-1 in. (but see var. 3). Panicle-branches elongated, 
slender, subracemose ; bracts 3—2 in. long, linear-lanceolate, flat ; cymes 
usually thin, loose, but sometimes the inflorescence is dense with 
numerous flowers; lower flowers of the cyme often sterile, early cadu- 
cous, so that the top of the cyme-peduncle appears knotted. Sepals 
t in. long, elliptic, obtuse, half-petaloid in texture. Petals } in. long 
and upwards, blue, or sometimes dull purple. Stamens 2 only fertile 
(but see var. 3). Capsule 1-1 in. long, 3-valved ; seeds normally 2 in 
each cell, obscurely wrinkled.—C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 
212, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap, vii. 12; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, 
Bot. ii. 352; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 432; Durand & 
Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 271; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 
136; Durand & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 87, 
and in Bull. Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvii. 128; Rendle in Journ. Linn. 
