70 CXLIII. COMMELINACE& (CLARKE). | Aneilema. 
Capsule 2-celled, ellipsoid, shining, with rounded shoulders, obscurely 
emarginate, 4-seeded. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Harradigit, James § Thrupp ! 
The specimen consists of a panicle with the 3 uppermost leaves. 
11. A. Smithii, (. B. Clarke. Sparingly pubescent. Roots. 
clustered, thick, several thickened at the end. Stems cespitose, erect, 
5 in. high, often divided, the flowering with several well-developed 
leaves. Leaves small, broadly ovate, subacute, the largest seen 1} by ? 
in. Inflorescence terminal, 1} by ? in., dense; peduncle 1-1} in. 
long; main rhachis well marked; bracts at the base of the primary 
branches +}; in. long, ovate or obovate, obtuse, somewhat scarious ; 
similar small empty bracts on the lower half of the primary branches. 
Flowers very small; pedicels and sepals obscurely pubescent. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Lake Rudolph, Doxaldson Simith ! 
12. A. dregeanum, Awnth, Hnum. iv. 73. Sparingly hairy. 
Stems 12-18 in. long, suberect, frequently branched. Leaves 4 by 
#-1} in., oblong-elliptic or subovate, lower with a quasi-petiole, }—? in. 
long, all (but occasionally the topmost) shortly acuminate at the base. 
Panicle 14 by ?-1 in., dense, nearly glabrate. Sepals 1-4 in. long. 
Petals small, blue. Fertile stamens usually 3. Capsule } by } in., 
thin, shining, usually 2-celled, shoulders rounded. Seeds 2—1 in each 
cell, pale, stony.—C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii, 229, and in 
Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 13. Lamprodithyros dreyeanus, Hassk. in Peters, 
Reise Mossamb. Bot. 529. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; Tete, Kirk! 
Also in the North-Eastern parts of South Africa. 
13. A. Nicholsoni, C. B. Clarke. Leaves 34 by 1 in., broadly 
elliptic acuminate at either end, when mature thinly hispid on both 
surfaces, those near the top of the stem with a pseudo-petiole } in. long. 
Peduncle 1—2 in. long, terminal, patently hispid. Panicle 14 by ?-1 in., 
very dense ; cyme-peduncles very numerous and (as the pedicels) hispid ; 
bracts minute. Calyx small, nearly glabrous. Petals very small, bright: 
blue in the dry specimens. Capsule } in. long, 2-celled, 4-seeded. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa ; Rhodesia; on the road from Missala: 
to Luia River, Nicholson ! 
14. A. Petersii, (. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 225. 
Thinly hairy. Stems 12-18 in. long, sometimes branched in the upper’ 
part. Leaves up to 34 by 3-} in,, lanceolate. Panicle 2 by 14 in., 
rather loose ; primary branches not whorled ; in several cases a second 
penultimate panicle makes the inflorescence appear as dichotomous. 
Sepals $-} in. long, nearly glabrous. Petals blue. Capsule 1—} in., 
normally 2-celled with 2 seeds in each cell, minutely glandular pubescent, 
less papery than in most of the section Lamprodithyros.—Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 431; K.Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C- 
