76 CXLIII, COMMELINACE® (CLARKE). | A nthericopsis. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Umba Valley, Smith! Masai High- 
lands, Fischer, 258. Portuguese East Africa: in a journey to the mountains east of 
Lake Nyasa, Sleere ! 
7. BUFORRESTIA, C. B. Clarke; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. 850. 
Sepals 3, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong. Petals 3, obovate. Stamens 
6, perfect; filaments without hairs. Ovary subequally 3-celled. 
Capsule oblong, 3-valved. Seeds 4-10 in each cell, in one vertical 
row.—Leaves with long cylindric sheaths, which are not rarely pierced 
at the base by a roundish hole through which a lateral shoot or a 
peduncle is extended. Panicle open. 
Species, 2 in Tropical Africa, 1 in Cayenne. 
Sepals in fruit 4 in. long, glabrous, striate : . 1. B. Mannii. 
Sepals in fruit } in. Jong, viscid-hairy —. é . 2. B. imperforata. 
1. B. Mannii, (. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 233, t. 6. 
Nearly glabrous. Stem 2 ft. long. Leaves up to 64 by 2} in., tip 
shortly acuminate, base cuneate. Peduncles none near the end of stem, 
but boring through the base of the leaf-sheaths, 1-3 in. long. Panicle 
2 by }in., about 12-flowered ; pedicels 3 or 4 in each false whorl, } in. 
long, with an oblong bract about 4 in. long at their base. Sepals } in. 
long in fruit, elliptic-lanceolate, striated, glabrous, ‘‘ green” (Mann); in 
flower hardly } in. long. Petals white (Zann). Capsule }-+4 in. long, 
oblong, glabrous, with 4—7 seeds in each cell.—Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 452. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 96. 
The material consists of 13 in. of the middle of the stem, with 2 leaves and 
“2 peduncles ; and of 14 in. of the tip of the stem with 3 leaves. 
2. B. imperforata, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 234, t. 7. 
Plant thinly viscous with scattered brown several-celled hairs. Stem 
often rooting near the base ; branches 10-20 in. long. Leaves 4 by 13 
in., acuminate, acute ; lower leaves much smaller, sometimes reduced to 
sheaths. Peduncles several from the axils of the uppermost closely 
approximated leaves, very short, irregularly branched, bearing ultimate 
racemes ; in these racemes, the small broad bracts } in. long are mostly 
sterile, the upper bracts only bearing a pedicel 4—} in. long (exactly as 
in many species of Aneilema). Sepals in fruit about } in. long, viscid 
hairy, dark green. Petals small, white, or “ white with purple streaks : 
(Welwitsch). Capsule } by } in., with 6-10 seeds in each cell.— Durand 
& Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 433; Durand & De Wild. in Comptes- 
rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 87; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 80. 
B. minor, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 136. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone; Kukuna, near the River Searcies, Scott-Elliot, 
4678 partly! Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 2500 ft., Mann, 1340! Preuss, 
1297 ! near the Lobe River waterfall, near Batanga, Bates, 145! Barombi, Preuss, 
287! Efulen, Bates, 258! Lolodorf, Staudt, 385! Bipinde, Zenker, 1094! Fernando 
Po, 2000 ft., Mann! 
