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furth, 2246! Ukamba, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6483! Giryama and Shimba 
Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; on the highest rocks of the 
Presidium, Cazella, San Antonio, and Songue, Welwitsch, 6650! on rocks between 
Candumba and Mangue, Welwitsch, 6653 ! and without precise locality, Welwitsch, 
6648 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Masai Highlands (ex K. Schumann). 
Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; opposite Sena, Kirk, 246! British East 
Africa : Nyasaland, Buchanan, 903! 
The var. sublanata (C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii, 258) is only the 
ordinary plant with the wool more rubbed off than usual. The var. Schweinfurthii 
(C. B. Clarke, l.c.), i.e., Schweinfurth, 534, 535, 2334, has the heads of flowers much 
included in the leaf-sheaths. 
6. C. pauciflora, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 345. Annual, with 
some arachnoid wool. Stems erect, 4in. high. Leaves linear-lanceolate 
to linear. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, much included in the 
sheaths of the floral leaves; cymes small, of 1-4 pairs of 2-ranked bracts. 
—Hassk. Commel. Ind. 121, and in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295 ; 
©. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 256; Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v.435 ; Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 88. Zygomenes pauciflora, 
Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 213. 
Wile Land, Eritrea : on Mount Deban, near Keren, 4580-5500 ft., Beccari, 262. 
Abyssinia: Tigre ; Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Quartin-Dillon! Shireh province, 
Quartin-Dillon ! 
It may be doubted whether this species is other than a depauperated form of 
C. lanata, Benth., var. Schweinfurthii, C. B. Clarke. 
7. GC. longifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 543, not of Wight. 
Shaggy or glabrate. Stem abrupt at the base; roots thick, somewhat 
clavate. Central stem very short, sterile, with 3-8 leaves, 6 by $ in., 
very narrowly lanceolate, or linear. Flowering stem lateral, arising 
close to the crown of the root, 8-12 in. long, carrying 2~—1 (or no) 
leaves. Inflorescences 2 or 1, 3 in. broad, of 4-1 cymes ; floral leaves 
(outermost bracts) 1-3 in. long, linear-lanceolate ; flower-bracts 2-ranked. 
—T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 650; Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xxix. 163; C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 259 excl. var. 
y cespitosa ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 434 excl. var. y ; 
Schoenl. in Eng]. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. 4, 67; K. Schum. in Engl. 
Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 137; Schweinf. in Hoehnel, Zum Rudolph-See u. Step- 
hanie-See, ii. 353; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 80. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Unyoro district (ex K. Schumann); Leikipia ; 
upper course of the Guaso Narok, 6500 ft. (ex Schweinfurth). 
Lower Guinea. Congo; Curror,1! Angola: Huilla ; in damp rocky pas- 
tures, 3800-5500 ft., Welwitsch, 6595! Pungo Andongo ; in damp rocky pastures 
on the Presidium, Welwitsch, 6651! 
Mozamb. Dist. (erman East Africa: Unyamwezi ; between Tura and Tabora, 
3800 ft., Speke & Grant! British Cental Africa: Kambole, south-west of Lake 
Tanganyika, 5000 ft., Nutt / : 
The citations of Schweinfurth and K. Schumann are of their names only—their 
plants not having been seen.. It is not improbable that these authors identified their 
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