110 cix. POLYGONACE^ (baker AND wright). [Polygoiium. 



Schiveinfufth, 1273 ! Bongo : Seriba Agacl Ngulfala, Schweinfurth, ser. 3, 93 ! 

 Lake Rudolf, M'ellhyl Uganda: Mawokoto, 3900 ft., Brotvn, 141! 



lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, Hens, B, 40 ! and without 

 precise lociility, Smith! Angola: liarra do Bengo; by the River Bengo, near 

 Quifiindongo, We/witsch, 5365 ! Pungo Andongo ; by the River Lnxillo, towards 

 Oambanbe, ir^/«uY.9<?//, 5364 ! Huilla; near Lopollo, Wei ivitsch, bSGSl 

 ^^2 IWCozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, -Bo;er / Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; 

 Tette, A7/-/1- / Lower valley of the River Shire, Meller ! British Central Africa: 

 Kyasaland ; Lake Shirwa, Buchanan, 207 ! Matope, Scott-Elliot, 8496 ! Zomba, 

 Wht/te! between Kondowe and Karonga, JF/rt/te, 371 ! 



Also in extra-tropical South Africa, Tropical Asia and North Australia. 



14. P. toxnentosuin, Willd. Sp. PL ii. 447. Perennial. Stems 

 stout, hairy, 3-4 ft, long. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, narrowed gradually to the base, the lower 6-8 in. long, lJ-2 in. 

 broad at the middle, persistently hairy on both surfaces ; ochrese large, 

 membranous and clasping the stem to the tip, ciliate with long rigid 

 bristles. Spikes dense, cylindrical, 2-3 in. long ; peduncles clothed with 

 adpressed hairs ; bracts strongly ciliate. Perianth pink, not glandular, 

 IJ lin. long. Stamens usually 7. Ovary globose ; styles 2. Nut lenti- 

 cular, orbicular, black, shining, shorter than the perianth. — Meisn. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiv. 124 (inch vars. sericeo-velutinum, denudatum and stri- 

 gillosum); Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 142; Gartenfl. 1874, 291, 

 t. 810; Engl. Hochgebirgsti. Trop. Afr. 202 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 905 ; Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 170 ; DeWild. Etudes 

 Fl. Bas et Moyen Congo, i. 238 ; Schuster in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2">® 

 ser. viii. 706; var. limnogenes, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 905. 

 P. setidosmn, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 227. P. limnogenes, Vatke 

 ex Engl. Hochgebirgsa. Trop. Afr. 202. 



TTpper Guinea. Sontliorn Nigeria : Lagos, Molouei/ ! Nun River, Mann, 

 493! 



Nile Xiand. Abyssinia, Quart in-Dillon Sf Petit, 79 ! mouth of the River Sobat, 

 Schiveivfurth. 1108! Speke dif Grant ! Nianiniam : Nabanibisso River, Schwein- 

 furth, 3147 ! at Bodumoh swainj), Schiveivfurth, 3709 ! Uganda : banks of the Nile, 

 Speke Sf Grant ! Busoga, Brown^ 61! by streams, Wilson, \Z1\ Victoria Nyanza, 

 at Berktl.'v Was, Scott -Elliot, 7079 ! liritish East Africa : near Nairobi, Whi/te 1 



ZtQ'wev Guinea. Loango : swamp at Salowe, Soyaux,'2.2'^\ Lower Congo 

 Stanley I*()ol, i/e«*, B, 48 ! Angola: Huilla; river banks near Humpata, We/jptY^c//, 

 5362 ! Ambaca : by streams between Puri-Cacarambola and Ngombe, Welivitsch, 

 5361! Pungo Andongo: near the River Luxillo, Weltoitsch, 5360! Loanda, 

 Gossweiler, 420! Malange, Mechou\ 388, Pungo Andongo, Mechovo, 71. 



IMCozamb. X>lst. German East Africa: Zanguebar, A'lr^ / Usambara; Ma- 

 sheua, i/oZ*^, 3517 I Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; BoY\x\x\^,Menyharth^ 

 104a. lliver Shire near Moiamballa, Kirk I Shire and Shupanga, Stewart I 

 between Unango and Mtonia, Johnson ! near Pachei, Johnson, 339 ! East side of 

 Lake Nynsa, Jo/ni*o», 21 ! British Central Africa : Nyas^land; between Kondowe 

 and Karonga, Whyte ! North Nyasaland, Whyte ! Nyika Plateau, at Mwanemba, 

 8000 ft., McClounie, 75! 138! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1265! 

 Cameron, 2 ! Mashonaland ; Salisbury, Marshall ! 



Also in extra-tropical South Africa, North Africa and Tropical Asia» 



