KcBmpferid.'] cxxxiv. scitamine^. (baker). 205 



middle, moderately firm, glabrous. Flowers usually solitary on short 

 blender radical peduncles, with 1-2 large membranous sheathing bract- 

 leaves. Calyx subcylindrical, ij in. long, shortly toothed, and finally 

 shortly slit down one side. Corolla -tube rather longer than the calyx ; 

 lobes lanceolate, 1 J in. long. Staminodia more than twice as long as 

 the corolla- lobes, usually bright red-purple, drying to violet, with a 

 yellow throat, rarely all pale yellow ; lateral staminodia obovate-cuneate ; 

 1 in. broad ; lip rounded at the apex, deeply emarginate, 2 in. broad ; 

 fertile stamen shorter than the corolla-lobes ; anther ^ in. lon^y, with a 

 small truncate crest. — Var. angustifolia, Eidley in Journ. Bot. 1H87, 

 131. Cienkowskia cethiopica, Solms in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Ethiop 107 

 t. 1. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Hendelot, 876 ! Gold Coast : Salaga, Krame ! 

 north bank of the Gambia ^iver, Ozanne ! Lagos : Yoruba ; common in grassy places 

 from Oyo to Illorin, Barter, M2il ! Southern Bornu : Musgu, Vocjel, 99 ! 



STile Iiand, Senaar, CienJcowsTci. Galabat : banks of the River Gendua 

 Schweinfurth, 1341 ! Abyssinia : Woina, Steudner, 496 ! British East Africa : Jur • 

 Jur Ghattas, Schtoeinfurih, 131 ! 1863 ! Kibwezi, Scott-Elliot, 6299 ! 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; near Conde, Welwltsch, 683 ! 

 Mechoiv, 244. 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : east shore of Lake Tanganyika, Scott- 

 JElliot, 8217 ! between Uyui and the coast, Taylor ! Unyamwezi ; Msalala, Hanning- 

 ion ! Rovuma River, Kb-k ! Portuguese East Africa : Morambala mountain. Kirk! 

 British Central Africa : Urnngu; Fwambo,Car.yore, 115 ! Nyasaland ; Karonga, Carbon, 

 1890 ! between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa, Johnston ! Manganja Hills, Meller ! 

 Shire Highlands, Bucha)j(in, 2i7 I 2i8! Mandala, Scott-Mliot, 8546! between 

 Blantyre and Metope, 2000 ft., Scott ! near Mount Sochi, 3000 ft., Kirk ! 



?>. K. rosea, Schweinf. ex Benth. d; Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. C42. 

 Leaves about 4, with long distinct channelled petioles, not fused into 

 a false stem ; blade moderately firm, glabrous, usually oblong, acute, 

 under a foot long, 4-5 in. broad. Flowers many, racemed at the apex 

 of a long slender peduncle, contemporary with the leaves ; bracts 

 oblong, brown, membranous, |-1 in. long ; pedicels very short. Calyx 

 funnel-shaped, J in. long, deeply 3-lobed. Corolla-tube twice as long 

 as the calyx; lobes oblong, J-| in. long. Staminodia more than twice 

 as long as the corolla-lobes, light or dark pink, with two dark spots at 

 the throat, rarely white or yellow ; lateral J-| in. broad ; lip emar- 

 ginate, lJ-2 in. broad; fertile stamen not longer than the corolla- 

 lobes ; anther-cells \ in. long. 



Nile Iiand. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schwpinft(rfh, 1916, 

 ser. iii. 205 ! Niamniam ; Gumango Hill, Schweinfurth, 3878 ! Nyika country, near 

 Mombasa, Wakefield ! Hildehrandt, 2014 ! 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : plains above Bagamoyo, A7/A- / between 

 Uyui and the coast, Taylor ! Rovuma River, Kirk ! Meller ! Portuguese East 

 Africa : Lower Shire Valley, Kirk ! between Sena and the Shire River, Kirk .' 

 between Lupata and Sena, Kirk ! Mozambique, Forbes ! British Central Africa* : 

 Nyasaland ; Chimapas Village, iV^/c7iO/jon .' Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 157! Scot/- 

 JElliot, S6^6 I Mandala, Scott-Mliot, 8547! Mount Malosa, 1000-6000 fr., Ji'hy/r .' 

 Zomba and vicinity, 2500-3500 ft., Whyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanan ! 

 501! 650! Scott) 



