Aneilema. | CXLIII. COMMELINACEE (CLARKE). 75 
superposed seeds (or 1) in each cell.—Durand & Schinz, Conspect. F. 
Afr. v. 430. Lamprodithyros Ehrenbergii, Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. 
Fl. Aethiop. 210,295. Commelina ebracteata, Ehrenberg ex Hassk.].c. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: near Togodele, in Sholos district, Hhrenberg. 
This is reduced by Schweinfurth (in Bull, Herb. Boiss, ii. Append. ii. 58) to 
A. Forskalei, Kunth; which appears to me impossible, as see the remarks under 
A, tacazzeanum above (p. 66). A. Lhrenbergii may have been the same as Schimper’s 
1660, 1729, i.e. A. tacazzeanum above. 
28. A. Russegeri, (. B. Clarke. Lamprodithyros Russegeri, Fenzl 
in Sitzungsb. Akad. Wien, Math. Nat. i. Abth. ii. (1865) 138 ; Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295 ; cfr. Kotschy & Peyr. Pl. Tinn. 48 in obs. 
Wile Land. Nubia and Fazokl, Fenzl. 
I have no specimen of this, nor have I been able to see the original description of 
Fenzl]. According to Kotschy & Peyritsch, it is very near A. Schweinfurthii. 
6. ANTHERICOPSIS, Eng]. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 139. 
Sepals $ in. long, lanceolate, very acute, herbaceous, striate.. 
Otherwise as Anetlema 
Species 1. Endemic. 
Engler says that the seeds are in two rows in the capsule, which is true in the 
sense that they are biseriate in the culinary pea-pod. In separating this plant from 
Aneilema, Rendle mentions various distinctive points—viz. 1st, that the 3 fertile 
stamens belong to the external whorl; but I believe that they do not, but are as in 
other Aneilemas ; 2nd, that the inflorescence is umbellate; but I do not consider it is. 
even pseudo-umbellate ; I regard it as essentially that of Aneilema (Indian Section, 
Murdannia) ; 3rd, that the pollen is echinate. I have seen the pollen well and think 
it not echinate, and hardly more strongly granular than in some species of Aneilema ; 
but it is without the longitudinal groove present in Aneilema pollen. The sepals are, 
however, very unlike those of any Aneilema, and show an approximation to the genus 
Buforrestia. : 
1. A. Pischeri, Engl. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 139. Nearly 
glabrous, 2-8 in. high. Roots wiry, 2-3 in. long, each terminated by 
a hard ovoid tuber 4-} in. long. Stem only 1-2 in. long (exclusive of 
the flower scape). Leaves up to 3 by } in., ovate or elliptic acute. 
Inflorescence a panicle of 2 (or 1) distant clusters of falsely-whorled 
pedicels ; bracts sessile, lanceolate, attaining 14 by } in., flat, not at all 
hooded. Pedicels unequal, often }—1} in. long in each cluster. Petals 
din. long. Stamens 3, fertile; filaments without hairs; anthers nearly 
Similar, of 2 oblong cells; pollen small, ellipsoid-subglobose, granular, 
not grooved longitudinally. Capsule (unripe) ? by ;/5 in., with 5 or 
more seeds in each cell in one row.—A. sepalosa, Engl. in Eng]. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii.—iv. 69. Aneilema sepalosum, C. B. Clarke 
in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 202 ; Durand & Schinz. Consp. Fi. Afr. v. 432 ; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 135. Gillettia sepalosa, Rendle in 
Journ. Bot. 1896, 56, t. 355, fig. B. 
Wile Land. Somaliland : El Modu, Donaldson Smith. British East Africa 
Ukambi ; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2640! 
