38 cxLiii. €OMMELixAC'E.'!<] (clarke). YCoTivmeLina. 



long, cylindric-ellipsoid, reticulated. — Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr.'v. 428 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 75. 



XiO\(rer Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo ; 3300 ft., on the banks of the 

 Kiver Cuanza, near Nbilla, Wei ivitscJi, 6(^4:2. 



Mozamb. Dist. Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! 



Also from Madagascar. 



This almost surely belongs to the present group. There were 4 seeds in the two 

 ventral cells ; the dorsal cell in the one capsule preserved is empty, as happens occa- 

 sionally. 



•A. C. Gambise, G. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 140. Thinly 

 villous. tStems 20 in. long, much divided ; base decumbent, rooting at 

 the nodes ; roots fibrous. Leaves '1-^ by \ in., linear. Spathes on 

 peduncles exserted 0-| in., numerous, solitary, | in. long, simply folded, 

 ovate, shortly acuminate, rounded or rhomboid at the base. Flowers 

 small, deep blue. Capsule usually 5-seeded ; seeds of the ventral cells 

 scarcely ^2 iii- ^^^^i subglobose, strongly reticulated, the margins of the 

 reticulations much raised, continuous. — Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 425. 



irpper Guinea. Gambia, Ingram ! Senegambia, Heudelof, 577 ! 



This is the plant " indicated" by Bentham (in Hook. Niger V\. 542) as C. Fors- 

 kalcei from Senegambia. The leaves and spathes resemble fairly well those of 

 C. Forskalm, Vahl j but the capsules and seeds are totally unlike. 



5. C. scaposa, C. B. Clarke in Comptes-rendus Soc. hot. Bely. xxxviii, 

 220. Nearly glabrous. Leaves on sterile stem not seen. Fertile stems 

 8-12 in. long, simple, leafless, with 2 or ?> distant leaf -sheaths ; free 

 point to the leaf-sheaths less than ^ in. long. Spathes solitary, on 

 peduncles up to 2^ in. long, simply folded, the margins hardly united at 

 the base, J-§ in. long, ovate, shortly acuminate. Seeds normally 5 to- 

 the capsule, those in the ventral cells slightly pitted and tubercular. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Upper Marangu, De Beerst ! 



G. C. subulata, Ixoth, Xov. PL >S'^>. 2:). A nearly glabrous annual. 

 Stems 0-15 in. long, weak, divided. Leaves 2 by \-\ in., linear. 

 Spathes scattered, solitary, on a peduncle hardly exserted from the 

 leaf -sheath, \ in. long, ovate, shortly acute, simply folded, not striated 

 by curved coloured parallel lines ; inflorescence little exserted from the 

 spathe. Petals small, blue (see note below^). Capsule i-i in. long, 

 with normally 5 seeds. Seeds of the ventral cells (often strongly) 

 wrinkled, as well as pitted subtuberculate.— C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. iii. 148, inch var. /5; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 154; Durand 

 & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 428 ; K. Schum in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 134 ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 420 ; C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. 

 Cap. vii. 9. C. striata, Hochst. ex Kunth, Enum. iv. 44 ; Hassk. in 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 207, 2^^^K C. suhavravtlaca, Hochst. ex 

 Kunth, Enum. iv. 658 ; Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 208, 295. 

 C. liiiearifolia, Kunth, Enum. iv. 43. 



xrile Dband. Kordofan : Abu Gerad, Koischy, 59 I and without precise locality^ 

 Kotschij, 34 ! Eritrea : Bogos, Hildehrandt, 370 ! Keren, Beccari, 172 ; Hjibab, 



