Oommelind.] cxLiii. coMMELiNACEiE (clarke). 45 



Abyssinia: near Schumdalake, 4000ft., Schimper, 380! Somaliland, Mrs. Lori- 

 FJiillips ! Donaldson Smith! British East Africa : Nyika country near Mombasn, 

 Wakefield ! VVitu, Thomas, 203 ! 



AoTirer Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; in damp meadows by the River 

 Cuanza, near Nbilla, Welwitsch, 6634 ! Damaraland, JEen ! 



Mozaml). Blst. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1053 ! Kirk ! German East Africa : 

 Tanga, Hoist, 2078! Portuguese East Africa : Zambejii Delta ; mouth of the Rive4' 

 Kongoni, Kirk ! Lower Zambesi ; between Lupata and Tete, Kirk ! British Central 

 Afi'ica : Rhodesia ; Zambesi Valle^^, at Shesheke, Holuh ! Ngamiland : Kwebe, near 

 Lake Ngami, Liigard, 136 ! Mrs. Lugard, 147 ! Matabeleland, Elliott ! 



Also in Arabia, Socotra, Mascarenia, South^ern India. 



In this species, as in C. henghalensis, stolons or basal almost leafless branches 

 carry abnormal, often apetalous, flowers, r.nd produce capsules usually abnormal, often 

 1-seeded. 



22. C. africana, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 41, ed. ii. GO. Nearly glabrous. 

 StenivS 1-3 ft. lon^, rambling, much divided, almost woody at the very 

 base, with thick roots. Leaves 3 by J in., or much smaller, oblong, nearly 

 sessile, usually obtuse at the base, often with rusty hairs at the mouth 

 of the sheath. Spathes scattered, on peduncles exserted 1-| in., 

 varying in length (in one exiample) from |-2Jin., simply folded, ovate, 

 commonly triangular at the top, sometimes acuminate or rarely caudate- 

 attenuate, glabrous or nearly so with white margins. Petals yellow. 

 Filaments often J in. long. Ovary 5-ovuled. Capsule nearly always 

 1-seeded, i.e., the dorsal cell falls off apparently quite indehiscent, while 

 the four ovules in the two ventral cells (after swelling somewhat) remain 

 infertile ; occasionally the upper ovule in each ventral cell produces a 

 perfect cylindric-ellipsoid reticulated seed. — Gsertn. Fruct. i. 50, 1. 15, 

 fig. 1 ; Lam. Encycl. ii. 67, 111. t. 35; Schmidel, Ic. i. 113, t. 30; Red. 

 Lil. t. 207 ; Gawler in Bot. Mag. t. 1431 ; C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. iii. 164, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 9; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr.v. 422 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl.Ost Afr.C. 135 ; Rendle in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xxx. 429, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. b2 ; Hua in 

 Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 119. C. angolensis, C. B. Clarke in DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. iii. 167 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 155 ; Durand k, 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 423; Eendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 77. 

 ('. involucrosa, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 165 partly. 

 C. Klliotii, C. B. Clarke k Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 98. 

 Hedinigia africana, Medicus in Roem. & Usteri, Mag. x. 124, 



XTpper Guinea. Sierra Leone : between Kahreni and Port Lokko, Scott- 

 Ellioi, 5749 ! 



ITile Z.and. Habab, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 368 ! Eritrea : Saganeiti, 6800- 

 7000 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1701 ! Abyssinia: Samen ; Shoata, Schimper, 590! 

 Shoa, Petit ! British East Africa : Niamniam : by the River Nabambisso, Schwein- 

 furth, 3739 ! and Makporru Hill, Schweinfurth, 3797 ! British East Africa : 

 Leikipia ; Njoro Lavabwal, Gregory I Machakos, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6388 ! 



Ziower Guinea. French Congo : Bramaya, Faroisse, 196. Angola : Huilln, 

 3500-5800 ft. ; near LopoUo, Welwitsch, 6581 ! Monino, Welwitsch, 6583 ! Morro 

 de liopollo, Welwitsch, 6593 ! Pungo Andongo; Sobato Cabanga, Welwitsch, 6626 ! 

 German Soutli-west Africa : Upingtonia ; Ovambate, Schinz, 28 ! 



