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whorls, the bracts at their base } in. long, elliptic ; one or two of the 
lower cyme-peduncles supported sometimes bya leaf 21in. long. Cyme- 
peduncles glabrate ; several of the lower bracteoles empty,4—} in. long, 
ovate; pedicels in fruit }—2 in, long. Sepals nearly } in. long, narrowly 
elliptic, glabrate. Capsule + in. long, truncate, with acute angles at the 
top; seeds 2-1 in each cell. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; 2000-6000 ft., Kondowe 
to Karonga, Whyte, 337 ! 
This species is close to the small examples of A. equinoctiale, but has broader 
sepals, and not more than 2 seeds to each cell of the capsule. 
+. A. angolense, (. B. Clarke. Sparsely hairy. Stems 24-3 ft. 
long, with long internodes, and branches from most axils. Leaves 3 by 
4 in., broadly ovate, acute, narrowed at the base almost into a quasi- 
petiole ; the uppermost large and folded. Inflorescence sessile on the 
upper leaves, and shorter than they, of several lax panicles (i.e. of one 
panicle divided at the very base); an axillary panicle is added in one 
‘example. Bracts very small; no ovate smal! empty bracts seen. Pedicels 
of the fruit 4 in. long. Flowers green, the lower petal yellowish 
(Welwitsch). Capsule + by 4 in., papery, shining, 2-celled, 4-seeded. 
—A. Khrenbergii, Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 79. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; in woods on the mountains of Alto 
Queta, 1000-2400 ft., Welwitsch, 6610! 
A description of this plant is given in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 230, where it is 
supposed that it may be Lamprodithyros Ehrenbergii, Hassk., an Abyssinian plant, 
which probably differs, cfr. No. 27 below. 
Var. magis-lutea, C. B. Clarke. Stems slenderer, 6-14 in. long. Leaves smaller, 
attaining 2} by 14 in. Panicle depauperated, lax, few-flowered. Sepals green 
(Welwitsch). Petals 2 yellow, 1 green or yellow (Welwitsch).—A. peduncutosum, 
var. lutea, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 228; Dnrand & Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 431; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 79. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; 2400-3800 ft., in shade on the 
rocky heights of Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 6630! on the rocks of the Presidium, 
Welwitsch, 6649! 
The habitat, the colour of the flowers twice noted by Welwitsch, the lax panicle, 
the tendency to produce short branches from the leaf axils all tend to show that this 
plant is nearer to 4. angolense than to A. pedunculosum. 
6. A. Johnstonii, HK. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 135. 
‘Thinly hairy. Stems 18 in. long, not rarely branched. Leaves up to 
+ by 3-}in., lanceolate. Panicle terminal, peduncled, 34 by 1} in,, 
open, nearly glabrous, erect; cyme-peduncles in apparently distant 
whorls; bracts hardly } in. long ; pedicels attaining }-4 in. ; bracteoles 
scarcely ;', in. leng, ovate or obovate. Sepals 4 in. long, roundly 
elliptic, obtuse. Petals 2, yellow, the odd one a_brown-yellow. 
Capsule 1 by 1 in., broadly ellipsoid, very obtuse at the top, but with- 
out horns at the corners; seeds usually 2 in each cell.—Anetlema, cfr, 
lanceolatum, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 352. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Lower slopes, 2000- 
3000 ft., Johnston! below Marangn, 2600 ft., Volkens, 2146! Usambara; Pare 
