Commelina.'] cxLiii. commelinace.e (clakkk). 41) 



Upper Guinea. Camcroons : Cameroon Mountiiln, 7000 ft., Mann, 2136! 



y-dv. p Li/<(Uii, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monosjr. Phm. iii. 168. Rather stouter. 

 Peduncles a little longer. Seeds slightly pitted, not distinctly reticulated. — C. am- 

 plexicaulis, Hassk. in Schweiiif. Beitr. Fl. Aetliiop. 20S, 295; Dnrand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 423 ? C. eilulis, A. Rich,, forsan var. ex C. B. Clarke in DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. iii. 165. 



Ifflle Iiand. Abyssinia: Samen ; Kabere, 10,000 ft., AScAimjt^er, 573 ! Ankober, 

 Roth, 11 o ! and without precise locality, Plowden ! 



Also in Madagascar. 



31. C. Kotschyiy Hassk. in Schioeinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 207, 295. 

 Nearly glabrous. Leaves 2J by § in., subsessile, very little narrowed 

 at the base; margins often crenulated. Spathes 2 (or 3-1) near the 

 ends of the branches, exserted scarcely \ in. from the leaf-sheaths, 

 J-| in. long, very broadly ovate, obtuse or with a very short point 

 (not acuminate) ; margins free or very shortly and obscurely connate at 

 the base. Petals intensely blue {Wehoitsch). Capsule more than \ in. 

 long, quadrate-oblong, constricted in the middle, flat ; the dorsal-cell 

 absent, or rudimentary, or small and 1 -seeded. Seeds ^ in. long or 

 rather more, cylindric-ellipsoid, smooth, brown. — C. B. Clarke in DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. iii. 173 ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v 42(1 ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 135, partly ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. ii. 77. C. Forskailii, Hochst. ex C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. iii. 173. Dissecocarpus Kotschyi, Hassk. ex C. B. Clarke in DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. iii. 173. 



irile £and. Kordofan, Kotschy, 34 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Barra do Bengo ; between Teba and Cacuaco, 

 Wehoitsch, 6624 ! Loanda ; near Quicuxe, Wehoitsch, 6614 ! in the dense thickets 

 of Alto d is Cruzes, Welwitsch, 6620 ! 



32. C. imberbis^ Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 209, 295. 

 Nearly glabrous, even to the mouths of the leaf-sheaths. Stems 

 1-2 ft. high, suberect at the base, with internodes 2-3 in. long ; roots 

 long, rather thick. Leaves 5 in. long, varying from lj*f in. in 

 breadth, from ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate ; the upper sessile 

 dilated (often rounder or auricled) at the base. Peduncles few, 

 scattered, exserted |-1J in. from the leaf-sheaths. Spathes 1-lJ by 

 1 J in., very broadly ovate, triangular acute at the tip, green, nearly 

 glabrous, not conspicuously nerved ; margins free, or very nearly so. 

 Corolla blue. Capsule \-\ in. long, oblong-quadrate, 4-seeded. Seed 

 ellipsoid, brown, obscurely wrinkled or pitted (nearly smooth). — 

 C. latifolia, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 173, partly. 



Zrile Land. Eritrea : lower part of Damns Vullev, 1600 ft., Schtoeinfurth ^^ 

 Miva, 1181 ! Abyssinia : Tigre ; Melata, 5000 it., Schimper, 576 ! Mount Sholodii, 

 near Adowa, Qua rtin- Dillon Sf Petit, 13 ! Soudan, Fenton ! Somaliland : Darror, 

 James Sf Thrupp ! Harradi^it, James (Sf Thrupp ! British East Africa : Machnkos, 

 Hinde ! Rab:ii Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1054 I British Coutral Africa : Lake 

 Tanganyika, Cameron ! Kavala Islands, Carson, 24 ! 25 ! Xyjisalaiid : Kondowe to 

 Karonara, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Ngamiland; Kwebe. Lugard, 146! 24-1! 



