Cyanotis. | CXLIII, COMMELINACEE (CLARKE). 79 
sometimes with spreading hair on all sides, often with a dense line of 
shaggy hair on one side, sometimes nearly glabrate. Leaves in Schimper’s 
type collections, attaining + by  in., oblong-lanceolate. Inflorescences 
6-15 on one stem, }-? in. in diam., of one or several clustered 
cymes; outer bracts sometimes 1—2 in. long with elongate falcate 
recurved tips, sometimes ovate abbreviated 4 in. long; cymes many- 
flowered; bracteoles 41—} in. long, falcate-lanceolate, very regularly 
imbricated in two rows, or in other heads on the same stem, obscurely 
(or not) 2-ranked. Capsule } in. long.—C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. iii. 254; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 155; Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 433; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. 
1.59; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 136 (incl. var. 3 glabra) ; 
Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxx. 431. C. abyssinica, A. Rich. Tent. FI. 
Abyss. 11. 344, t. 98 ; Hassk. Commel. Ind. 139, and in Schweinf. Beitr. 
Fl. Aethiop. 295. C. barbata, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295 
partly, not of D. Don. Zygomenes abyssinica, Hassk. in Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 211. Commelina hirsuta Hochst. ex C. B. Clarke in 
DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 254, not of R. Br. nor of Kunth. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Mount Kube, 5900 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1511! 
Mogod Valley, 4200 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1554! Ginda, 2600 ft., Scheweinfurth, 
395 ; Bizen, 5800 ft., Schweinfurth, 1885; Habab, 7800 {t., Hildebrandt, 371! 
Abyssinia : near Adowa, Schimper, 14! Quartin-Dillon ! Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 
59, Agrima, Schimper, 584! near Jelajeranne (Tchelatchekenneh), Schimper, 1556! 
Begemeder ; Debra Tabor, Schimper, 1107! Shireh province, Quartin-Dillon ! 
Wojerat province, Quartin-Dillon! Shoa, Petit ! Ankober, Roth, 176! and without 
precise locality, Plowden! British East Africa: Leikipia, 6000-8000 ft., Thomson ! 
near Mombasa, Zaylor. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 8700 ft., Volkens, 1915! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Zomba Plateau, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 
Zomba and vicinity, 2500-3500 ft., Whyte ! 
The last-cited two collections of Whyte do not show the root ; many of the species 
of Cyanotis are so much alike that I do not feel at all confident (in the absence of 
@ bulb) that Whyte’s specimens belong to C, hirsuta. 
2. C. parasitica, Hochst.ex Hassk. Commel. Ind. 116. Sparingly 
hairy. Stems erect, 3-4 in. long, slender, creeping at the base from 
bulbs } in. in diam. Flowers rather large for the genus. Otherwise 
as C, hirsuta.—C. B, Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 256; Durand 
& Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 435; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
156. Zygomenes parasitica, Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 214. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen ; Acallo-Meda, 10,500 ft., Schimper, 506! 
The type specimens of C. parasitica are very complete, and show that the plant 
is not parasitic; its small bulbs were clustered in earth—probubly in the fork of a 
tree. 
3. C. angusta, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 260. 
Hairy. Stems 4-8 in. long, slender, erect from a bulb ? in. in diam. 
Leaves up to 3 by 3; in., linear. Heads $—§ in. long, of 1 or few 
cymes, very oblique; the lower bract often 1 in. long, linear from 
an oblique lanceolate base. Flowers small, the bracts crowded in 2 
rows, shaggy.—Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 433. 
