“4 CXLIM, COMMELINACES (CLARKE). [ Aneilema. 
3 in., lanceolate, acute. Inflorescences of about 8 flowers “in axillary 
cymes” (Rendle), or rather terminal on short axillary branches ; bracts 
to the lower cyme-branches }—} in. long and leaf-like; no small ovate 
empty bracts on the primary panicle branches. Stamens 3 or 2 fertile, 
3 sterile. Capsule ;4, in. long, the two anterior cells 2- (or 1-) seeded, 
the dorsal cell 1-seeded. Seeds stony, much as those of species of the 
section Lamprodithyros. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Lower Tana Valley at Lake Dumi, Gregory / 
24. A. Taylori, (. B. Clarke. Sparingly pubescent. Fragment 
of stem seen 8 in. long, with 4 inflorescences on short axillary branches. 
Leaves attaining 2 by 4 in., broadly lanceolate, acute. Inflorescence 
very weak, lax, subdichotomous, without bracts at the main divisions; 
branches slender }—3 in. long, with several small empty ovate bracts 
below, and few capsules on pedicels 1 in. long. Capsule Jess than { in. 
long, 2-celled, 4-seeded, very thin, white, papery. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Fimbine, in the Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, 
Taylor !} 
Imperfectly known species. 
25. A. Sacleuxii, Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 121. 
Panicle loose, elongate; peduncles pubescent; bracts lanceolate; 
cymes peduncled, 4—6-flowered, sometimes 2-3 close together, with 
acute bracteoles ciliate at the base. Capsule stalked, 2-angled at the 
top, 2-valved. Seeds 2 in each cell, a third 1-seeded (or empty) cell 
added. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar ?, Sacleuxr. 
Next to A. tacazzeanum. The bracts and bracteoles as described appear very 
unlike those of any plant in sect. Amelina, The description (except as to the capsule 
being 2-angled at the top) might do for A. soudanicum, 
26. A. hirtum, 4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 343. Root fibrous. 
Stem a span high, much branched from the base, hairy. Leaves oval- 
oblong, acute. Panicle terminal, dichotomous from the base, many- 
flowered; primary peduncles paired, 2 in. long. Capsule obcordate, 
compressed ; cells 2, with one long ovoid seed in each cell.—Lamprodt- 
thyros hirtus, Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Shireh province, in moist places near Kouaieta, 
Quartin-Dillon (ex A, Richard). 
The whole of the above is condensed from A. Richard’s description. I have little 
doubt, from the description of the inflorescence, that this was a species of Floscopa ; 
it certainly was if A. Richard is correct as to the obcordate capsules with one seed in 
each cell. In DC. Monogr. Phan, iii. 228, I have confused it with an <Aneilema, 
described above (p. 72) under the name 4. Whyftei. 
—amet 
A procumbent rooting herb. Leaves round-ovate or ovate, acute,. 
ciliate at the base. Inflorescence terminal, or terminal on lateral 
branches, loosely panicled, minutely bracteate at each division, with 
spreading branches. Flowers small. Fruits shining, 2-celled, with 2 
27. A. Ehrenbergii, (. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 229. 
