i')2 cxLiii. coMMELiNACE^ (clarke). [Poli/spatka. 



Flowers 4-5 in each sptithe ; bracteoles small. Capsule ^ in. long, 

 flattened, shining, obtuse at the apex. Seeds with ribs radiating from 

 the embryostega. — C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 194, incl. 

 var. /3 ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 429, incl. var. /3 : 

 Schoenl. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iv. 64; Baill. Hist. PL 

 xiii. 221. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Kukuna on the River Scarcies, Scott- 

 Elliot, 4678 ! Ashanti : Assin-Yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 163 ! Lagos : by the side 

 of forests on the road to Otto, Jlillen, 4 ! Otto, Millen, 26 ! Lagos Botanic Station, 

 Milieu, ^ I Cameroons: Ya\xnde,2Q00 ft., Zenker ^ Standi, 5661 Bipinde, Zenker, 

 1239! Ef ulen, ^a?{e*, 447 ! Cameroon Mountain, 3000 ft., ilfann, 2138 ! and without 

 precise locality, Preusft, 1186 ! Fernando Po, Vogel, 93 ! Barter, 1474 ! 2055 ! Mann ! 



5. ANEILEMA, R. Br., partly ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. 841). 



Sepals 8, small, elliptic or ovate, obtuse, concave. Petals 8, obovate, 

 blue or yellow. Stamens 3 (or 2) fertile, the intermediate one with 

 more or less dissimilar anther, and 3-2 sterile, rudimentary or cruci- 

 form.; filaments with or without beaded hairs. Ovary 3-2-celled. 

 Capsule ovoid to linear, 3-valved ; seeds several (or 2-1) superposed in 

 one vertical row (in the Tropical African species) in each cell. — Panicles 

 dense or lax; peduncles simple or divided; cymes simple, 1 -sided; 

 bracts to the cymes flat or hardly folded, never spathaceous (as in 

 Commel'ma). 



Species 60, tropical or subti'opical, whereof 5 only are American. 

 The germs differs from Commelina in the absence of the strongly folded or hooded 

 bracts which enfold the cymes in Commelina. 

 '•^Teicarpellaeia. — Capsule subequally 3-celled. Cells 

 2-seeded, acute, in the African species. Inflores- 

 cence dichotomous . . . . . . 1. A. sinicum. 



''"!=DiCARPELLAEiA. — Ciipsule 2-celled ; a dorsal small cell with 1 (or no) seed 

 sometimes added. 

 ^Am^lina. — Panicles terminal. Capsule truncate, with 2 acute corners. 

 Sepals \-\ in. long. 



Capsule with 3-5 seeds in each cell . . . 2. A. CBqidnoctiale. 



Capsule with 2-1 seeds in each cell . . .4.-4. nyasense. 



Sepjls \ in. long . . . . . . 3. A. tacazzeanum. 



\\Lamprodithyrns. — Panicles terminal. Capsule ellipsoid without angles at the 

 top. 

 Petals yellow or green-yellow. 



Panicle short, hardly exserted from the leaves . 5. A. angolense. 

 Panicle peduncled ; cyme-peduncles in false- 

 whorls V . . . . » .6.-4. Johnstoni, 



Petals (where knowai) blue to white. 

 Ovules often 3 in each cell. 



Leaves ovate or elliptic ; panicle dense . . 7. A. beniniense. 



Leaves lanceolate ; panicle lax . . . 8. A. Rendlei. 



Ovules 2-1 in each cell. 



Leives ovate to elliptic-oblong (see also \6.Wel- 

 witschi). 



