Pollia.] CXLIII. COMMELINACE-E (cLARKE). 27 



300 ft., Quintas, 10 ! at Nova Moka, 2900 ft., Moller ! FL Afr. Exsicc. Conimbric, 

 109 ! 



Part of Welwitsch, 6604, was referred by me erroneously to P. Mannii in 1>C. 

 Monogr. Phan. iii. 124. 



2. P. condensata, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 125. 

 Nearly glabrous. Stems 2-0 ft. long, thick. Leaves 12 by ^► in., lan- 

 ceolate-obovate, acuminate at either end ; petiole 0-\ in. long. Panicle 

 IJ by \\ in., 20-40-flowered, dense; bracts \-\ in. long, ovate, obtuse, 

 conspicuous on the young panicle, disappearing in fruit; peduncle 1-2 in. 

 long, with sometimes a large oblong bract. Stamens 3 fertile. Capsule 

 i by J in., 24-seeded. — Durand k Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 421 ; 

 k. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 134 ; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 

 Par. i. 118, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xli. p. 1 ; Cornu in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. France, xliii. 27 ; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 80 ; Rendle in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 74. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone ; Talla Hill Plateau, Scott-Elliot, 4851 ! near 

 Dunnia, Scott-Elliot, 4863 ! Ashanti ; Assin-Yan-Kuraassi, Cummins, 82 ! Came- 

 roons : Efulen, Bates, 389 ! Fernando Po ; 2000 ft., Mann, 93 ! Barter, 1518 ! 

 Vogel, 7b ! 



KTlle ILand. British East Africa: Uganda; common in woocjs, Scott-Elliot, 

 7370 ! 



]Lower Guinea. Isle of St. Thomas : Obo de Macambram, 4200 ft., MolleVy 

 12 ! Angolares, near Rio Salgado, Quintas, 12a ! Fl. Afr. Exsicc. Conimbric, 

 110 ! Princes Island, Barter, 2020 ! Angola : Cazengo ; in the lofty woods of 

 Muxaulo, Welwitsch, 6604 ! 



nf ozamb. 3>ist. ? Eastern Africa : Mhonda, Sacleux, 1831 ! 



This was erroneously placed in Sect. Eu-FolUa (i.e., with 6 perfect stamens) in 

 DC. Monogr. Phan. I.e. It has since flowered at Kew, and Mr. Rolfe observed that 

 the perfect stamens were 3 only {i.e., it is of Sect. Aclisia). 



2. PALISOTA, Reichb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 847. 



Is 3. Petals 3, small, obovate, white, sometimes tinged with 

 rose or bluish. Stamens 3, perfect, the anther of the stamen of the 

 interior whorl (anticous apparently middle of the three) somewhat un- 

 like that of the other two, with curved or subdivergent cells ; staminodes 

 2 or 3, with beaded hairs. Ovary 3-celled, the posticous cell often 

 smaller ; ovules 8-1 in each cell. Fruit indehiscent. fleshy or succulent, 

 often purple or red ; seeds 2 superposed in each cell, or solitary, or 

 more numerous and irregularly packed, pyramidal or trapezoid. — Stem 

 simple, or nearly so, or hardly any. Leaves basal or in false whorls, 

 hairy when young, edges permanently and densely clothed with ferru- 

 ginous hairs. Peduncle 1, rarely 2-3, quasi-terminal ; inflorescence a 

 panicle, elongate or dense ; flowers in small cymes, many functionally 

 male, the lower pedicels of the cyme often early caducous, so that the 

 upper part of the cyme-peduncle appears knotted. Biacts on the axis 

 of the panicle short, except in P. bracteosa : bracteoles small or 0. 



