80 CXLIII. COMMELINACE® (CLARKE). | Cyanotis. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory : Nupe, on rocky soil, Barter, 1476. 
Lower Guinea, Congo Free State: Lower Congo; Kisantu, on the Inkissi 
River, Gillet ! 
4. GC. foecunda, Hassk. Commel. Ind. 110. More or less shaggy. 
Stems 6-14 in. long, weak, rising obliquely from bulbs }—} in. in diam. 
Leaves 24 by $ in. or (as in K. Schumann’s plant) much smaller, 
oblong-lanceolate, not narrowed into a pseudo-petiole at the base. 
Inflorescences numerous, hardly 4 in. long, quite or nearly included in 
the leaf-sheaths ; bracts not (or obscurely) 2-seriate.—C. B. Clarke in 
DC. Monogr. Phan. iii, 255; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr- 
v. 4383; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 137. C. montana, 
K. Schum. in Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. Trop. Afr. 156; Durand & Schinz, 
_Conspec. Fl. Afr. v. 434. Commelina faccunda, Hochst. ex C. B. Clarke 
in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 255. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Plain of Keren, Stewdner, 1485. Abyssinia: Serraba, 
in Uschan, 5000-6000 ft., Schimper, 459! Samen, Schimper, 1242! Berrechowa,. 
5200 ft., Schimper, 280 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German Kast Africa: Unyamwezi district (ex K. Schumann) ; 
Usambara ; Duga, Holst, 3163! British Central Africa : Matabeleland, Ei/iott ! 
Also in Arabia. 
K. Schumann notes that this species belongs to the sect. Ochreeflore as defined 
in DC. Monogr, Phan, iii, 244. This is so. But, from the bulbous roots, I think 
still that its true affinity is here. 
5. C. lanata, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 542. Annual, with woolly 
fine hair, persistent about the bracts. Stems 4—18 in. long, often erect, 
slender, much divided, sometimes thicker and decumbent at the base, 
rooting at the nodes. Leaves up to 3 by } in. (often much smaller) nar- 
rowly oblong-lanceolate. Infiorescences scattered, axillary and peduncled, 
often numerous, of 1-4 clustered cymes, }—3 in. in diam.; outermost 
bract usually $—1 in. long, similar to the leaves but widened at the base ; 
bracts faleate in 2 rows in the cymes of Bentham’s type, but densely 
packed and very obscurely 2-ranked in the nodose heads in Schwein- 
furth’s.—C. B, Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258, incl. both 
varieties; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 434; Schoen]. in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. 4,67 ; Rendlein Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx- 
431, and in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 80 (incl. both varieties); K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 187; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. 
i. 122 (incl. var. sublanata). C. Schweinfurthii, Hassk. Commel- 
Ind. 134, and in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295. C. barbata, 
Schweinf. Fl. Aethiop. 295 partly, not of D. Don. Cyanopogon 
sp., Schweinf. ex C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 276! Senegal, Bellamy, 8, 639, 665. 
Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Morson ! Dahomey, Menager. Wagos: Abeokuta, a weed 
in Yam ground, Millen, 100! Irving, 101! Yoruba, Millson ! Niger Territory: 
Nupe, Barter, 1475! Jeba, on the Niger, Barter ! Lower Niger : Patteb Mountain, 
Vogel, 183! Quorra (River Niger), Vogel, 122! Cameroons: Yaunde, 2600 ft.» 
Zenker & Staudt, 502! 
Nile Land. Gallabat: region of Matamma, Schweinfurth, 534! 535! British 
Kast Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2334! Borgo; Gurfala, Schwein- 
