68 CXLIII. COMMELINACES (CLARKE). | Aneilema. 
Mountains, Hoehnel, 159. British Central Africa: Rhodesia; on the road from 
Missala to Luia River, Nicholson ! Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 435. 
Oliver regarded this as belonging to the sect. Lamprodithyros ; K. Schumann 
transferred it to sect. Hu-Aneilema. 
7. A. beniniense, Awnth, Knum. iv. 73. Stem trailing 1-2 ft. 
long, rooting near the base; the axillary shoots sometimes boring 
through the base of the Jeaf-sheaths. Leaves 2-5 in. long, ovate 
elliptic or oblong, acuminate, very slightly hairy, upper much less 
narrowed at the base than the lower. Inflorescence usually of 1 (or 2) 
terminal peduncled dense nearly glabrous panicles 2 by 14 in.: the 
cyme-peduncles often 100 or more, spreading at right angles; bracts 
inconspicuous; bracteoles minute, obovate; the inflorescence is some- 
times evolute into a mass 7 by 2 in. of a number of congested panicles. 
Flowers very small, blue or whitish. Sepals about ;}, in. long, thin, 
ovate, concave. Fertile stamens (at least often) 3; filaments without 
hairs. Capsule } by } in., shining, thin in texture, not truncate, 
normally 7—5-seeded. Seeds pale, stony.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 
546; C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 224; Durand & Schinz, Con- 
“spect. Fl. Afr. v. 430,and Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 270; Durand & De Wild. 
in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 87; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 
Afr, C, 136; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 121, inel. var. oaycarpa ;: 
Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 79; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898,, 
80. Commelina beniniensis, Beauv. Fl, Owar. ii. 49, t. 87. Lampro- 
dithyros beniniensis ? Hassk. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 529. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Grand Bassa, Vogel, 40! Cape Palmas, Ansell! 
Gold Coast, Burton § Cameron! Ashanti, Cummins! Togo, Buettner, 262! Lagos, 
Millen, 22! 91! Moloney! Western Lagos, Rowland! Old Calabar, Holland, 110! 
Robb! Cameroons : Barombi, Preuss, 1195! Batanga, Bates, 71! Fernando Po,. 
Vogel, 7! Barter! Mann, 92! 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Niamniam; at Linduku (Unduku) River,. 
Schweinfurth, 3284! at Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 3698! Ruwenzori ; Butugu 
Valley, Scott-Elliot, 7977 ! 
Lower Guinea. (iaboon, Du Bellay, Du Parquet. French Congo : France- 
ville, Brazza, Bangui, Dybowski, 528; Cape Lopez, Dybowski, 172 ; Congo, Smith, 
53! 57! Lower Congo: Bingila, Dupuis! Blakasi, Burton ! Angola: Golungo 
Alto, 1000-2400 ft., Mata de Quibanga, Sobato Mussengue, Welwitsch, 6600! Zengas- 
de Queta, Welwitsch, 66008! in woods on the banks of streams near Trombeta, Cam- 
bondo, and Sange, Welwitsch, 6601! 6654! 
Mozamb, Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Masuku Plateau, 6500- 
7009 ft., Whyte, 305! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! and without precise 
locality, Buchanan, 1167! 
The number of ovules is often 3 in each cell of the ovary, but not always. The 
varjation in the size of the panicle is great. : 
8. A. Rendlei, (. 2. Clarke. Sparsely hairy. Stems 15 in. long, 
undivided, rather slender. Leaves 3} by 4 in., exactly lanceolate,. 
acuminate at either end, the base almost pseudo-petiolate, with a few 
scattered brown hairs especially on the lower margins; leaf-sheaths 
unusually long (some 1 in, long) glabrescent. Peduncle terminal, 3-4 
in. long, with a leaf-sheath (without leaf) in the middle. Inflorescence 
