Cyanotis. | CXLIII, COMMELINACE® (CLARKE). 83 
developed leaves, and 2~3 heads of flowers, oblique at the base, some- 
times rooting at the lower nodes ; roots wiry, occasionally thickened at 
the tips. Leaves on the flower stems attaining 4 by $—# in., usually 
persistently hairy; those of the basal tuft often larger, sometimes 
9 by lin. Heads usually sessile, often }-1 in. broad, very dense, with 
several cymes ; outermost bract 1-1} in. or more, falcate linear-oblong 
from a broadly ovate base ; bracts in the cymes crowded, apparently 
irregularly.— Bot. Mag. t. 5471; C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr, 
Phan. iii. 257,and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 14, with all synonyms; Durand 
& Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 435; Schoenl. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflan- 
zenfam. ii. 4, 67, fig. 36 A; K. Schum.in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 137; 
Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 88; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 80. 
Mile Land. Eritrea: Keren, 4500 ft., Beccari. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Unyamwezi ; Uyui, Taylor! Usambara ; 
Mlalo (ex K. Schumann). British Central Africa: Urungu; Fwambo, Carson, 32 j 
Nyasaland ; Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., 
Whyte! Rhodesia; Inyanga Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 
211! 
Frequent in South Africa. 
12. ©, Mannii, (. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258. Hair 
scattered, shaggy. Growing in water; stem oblique at the base with 
many slender fibrous roots. Stems 2-12 in. long, much branched, with 
3-21 heads, the internodes often curved, much grooved and distinctly 
quadrangular under the nodes. Basal leaves not seen; stem leaves 
2-4 by } in., linear-oblong to linear. Heads } to } in. broad, of 1-4 
clustered cymes; outermost bract ovate or ovate-oblong, scarcely longer 
than the heads. Cymes few-flowered, the falcate hairy bracts 2-ranked. 
—KEngl. Hochgebirgsfil. Trop. Afr. 156; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 484; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 80. C. abyssinica, 
Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vi. 21, not of A. Rich. Cyanopogon, gen. 
nov., Welw. ex C. B. Clarke in DC, Monogr. Phan. iii. 258. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-9000 ft., Johnston, 
34! Mann, 1310! 2140! Buea, Preuss,800! Fernando Po: Clarence Peak, 9000 ft., 
Mann, 616! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in wooded places near Mangue 
and Mutollo, 2400-3800 ft., Welwitsch, 6652 ! 
13. ©. somaliensis, (. B. Clarke in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 229. 
Shaggy. Stem woody and abrupt at the base, with slender wiry roots. 
Basal leaves 1} in. long, narrowly triangular. Flowering stem 4—9 in. 
long, rather stout, undivided, with several leaves, and 2-8 axillary 
heads hardly exserted from the leaf-sheaths. Stem leaves 1 by }-} in., 
the upper (with axillary heads) shortened. Flower heads dense, the 
bracts to the cymes appearing irregularly clustered, 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Golis Range ; Hammar, Miss Edith Cole! Darra-as 
Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Halrawal, Donaldson Smith! British East Africa: Ruwen- 
zori, 6000-7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7813: ! 
The lower heads of flowers are included in the Jeaf-sheaths, the uppermost quite 
