5-1: cxLiii. COMMELINACE^ (olarke). [Commelina. 



nSozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Tanganyika Plateau, 

 2000-3000 ft., W^hi/te ! Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 <t., Wkt/te ! Kondowe to 

 Karoiiga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Shite 

 Highlands, Buchanan! 



45. C. echinosperma, K. Schum. m Enyl. Pji. Ost-Afr. C. 135. 

 Stems ]2-18 in. high, erect, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 4-6 by 

 J— I in., lanceolate or elongate-lanceolate, glabrous or puberulous. 

 Hpathe |-| in. long, pubescent. Capsule \ in. long, subquadrate. 

 Seeds globose, yV in. in diam., chestnut-brown, farinose, echinate. 



IMozamb. Slst. German East Africa.: Unyamwezi ; Gonda (Igonda), Kakoma, 



Boehiii, 2, 8. 



K. Schumann does not say that the seeds are 4, but he places the species in Sect. 

 Dif!secocar2nis. The subquadrate capsule implies 4 seeds. 



40. C. capitata, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 541. Nearly glabrous, 

 except the sjjathes. Stems \-^ ft. long. Leaves up to 5 by 1-lf in., 

 v.ii-ying from broadly-oblong- lanceolate to lanceolate, subrhomboid, 

 unequal-sided at the base. Spathes 3-8, collected into a quasi -terminal 

 head, |— 1 in. long, obliquely obovate ; margins free nearly to the base, 

 densely ciliate with rufous hairs, or nearly glabrate. Flowers yellow 

 (or white, H. H. Johnston). Capsule oblong, 4-seeded. Seeds \-\ in. 

 long, cylindric, deeply pitted. — C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 

 1 TO ; Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 424 ; Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 2(50 ; 

 Durand k De Wild, in Comptes-rendus Soc. hot. Belg. xxxvi. 87 ; 

 Eeiidle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 78. 



KTlle Xiand. British East Africa : east side of Lake Albert Edward, Scott- 

 EUiot, S027 ! 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perroitet, 772! Sierra Leone: Luseni^a, 8coH- 

 JElIiot, 4080 ! and without precise locality, Afzelius ! Smeathman 1 Morsou ! Hart ! 

 Liberia : Cape Palmas, Vogel, 52 ! liagos, Moloney, 9 ! Niger Territory : New 

 Calabar, at Degema, ^oZZawrf, 125 ! Cross River, Johnston! Cameroons : Victoria, 

 Kalhreyer, 171 Cameroon Mountain, upper slopes, «7oA«42'ow, 97 .' Bipinde, Zenker, 

 1143 ! ' Yaunde, Zenker Sf Staudt, 637 ! Efulen, Mates, 442 ! Batanga, Bates ! 

 Fernando Po, Mann, 91 ! 



Slower Guinea. Lower Congo : Bingila, Dvpuis ! Angola : Pnngo Andongo ; 

 in the shady woods of Barranco de Pedra Songue, 3300 ft., Welwitsch, 6647 ! 



Also in the West Indies. 



The two examples from the West Indies I have seen are probably of one collection, 

 and the locality on the ticket is possibly an error. 



47. C. rufoeiliata, C. B. Clarke. Hairy. Stems 18 in. long. 

 Leaves 4 by I in., elliptic-lanceolate, w^hen mature hairy on both sur- 

 faces ; base unequal, narrowed above the leaf -sheath, rufous-ciliate. 

 Spathes densely clustered at the ends of the branches, broadly and 

 obliquely funnel-shaped, hairy, varying much in size (in one head from J to 

 1 in. long) ; margins connate at the base, often for ^-| in. Corolla 

 blue. Capsule scarcely 1 in. long, subquadrate, 4-seeded. Seeds hardly 

 longer than broad, small, obscuielv reticulate-wrinkled. 



