64 c'XLiii. ciOMMELiNACE^ (clarke). [Aneik^ii 



Soc. XXX. 430, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 52, and in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. ii. 70 ; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 120. Cortimelina 

 sinica, Roem. et Schultes, Mant. i. Addend, i. 376. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone ; Bumban to Port Lokko, Scott-Elliot, 5742 ! 

 Wortb Central. French Congo : Uaddas, on the Ubangi River, ByhowsJciy 

 26b. 



UrUe Xiand. British East Africa : Jur ; Agad Seriba (Wan), Schweinfurth, 

 1684 ! Ruwenzori, below 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6673 ! Leikipia district, at (xuaso 

 Thegu and Kithungulu, Gregory ! Ukamba, above 4000 ft,, Scott-Elliott, 2340 1 

 Ribe to Galla Country, Wakefield ! Nyika Country at Dururaa, Wakefield, 26 1 

 Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor I 



lower Guinea. Graboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 341 ! French 

 Congo; Franceville, 2^AoZZo«, 314 ; Brazzaville, D^iow^Ari y 'B-aw^mi, Dyloioski, h2,h- 

 529 ; Lower Congo : Lukungu, Hens, 228a ! Bingila, Dupuis ! Stanley Pool, 

 Biittner, 305 ! Quiballa, Monteiro ! Angola ; Pungo Andongo, in marshes to the 

 west of the Praesidium, and by streams in the Prsesidium itself, 2400-3800 ft,, Wel- 

 m^5cA, 6627 ! 6628!' Huilla; marshy places round the base of Morro de Lopollo, 

 3800-5500 ft., Welu'itsch, 6591 ! Dammara-land, Een ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Bolobo, on the River Congo, Johnston ! 

 Upper Marungu, De Beerst ! Lualaba River, Briart ! Katanga, Briart ! Mussima, 

 Briart ! 



Mozamb. Dlst. Zanzibar, JffVWeJrawrff, 1055 ! Sacleux, 40Q\ German Bust 

 Africa : Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., Johnston ! Rovuma Bay, Kirk ! Portuguese East 

 Africa : Zambesi Delta ; mouth of the West Luabo River, Kirk, 2 ! British Centi-al 

 Africa : Urungu ; Fwarabo, Carson, 43 ! 76 ! 77 ! Kambole, south-west of Lake 

 Tanganyika, 5000 ft., Nuit ! Nyasaland ; Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., 

 Whyte ! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft,, Whyte ! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., 

 Whyte! Zomba and vicinity, 2900-3500 ft., XT^ife.' Mount Mlanji, TTi^^e, 39 1 

 and without precise locality, Buchanan, 368 ! 



Also in South Chini, Mal-iya, South India, Mascarene Islands, and South Africa. 

 Var. /3 longifolia, C. B. Clarke. Rather larger in all parts ; leaves often \—^ in. 

 broad ; fertile stamens commonly 2, but sometimes 3. — A. longifolium. Hook. Exot. 

 Fh iii. t. 204 ; Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 163, A. giganteum, as to the 

 African plants, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 212 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. 

 Fl. Afr. v. 430; K. Schum. inEngl.Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 136, 



Wile liana' British East Africa : Jur ; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1840 ! 

 Niamniam ; by the River Sway, Schrceinfurth, 3904 ! 



laovrev Guinea. Cameroons : Batanga, Bates, 120 I 



Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Bojer ! Lake Tanganyika, Carson I German East* 

 Africa : Unyamwezi ; near Tabora, in swamps, 3000 ft., Speke Sf Grant ! Usambara, 

 Hoist, 2962! Portuguese East Africa : Zambesi Delta; Luabo River, Kirk, 50! 

 River Shire, near Morambala Mountain, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland; 

 without precise locality, Buchanan, Vi^Z\ 1363! Rhodesia: Six-mile Spruit, near 

 Salisbury, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 148 ! 



This series of plants runs without a break into the tyjncal form. It was 

 attempted, in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 212, to separate A. giganteum with 3 fertile 

 stamens specifically from A. sinicvm with 2 fertile stamens. Hooker says that his 

 A. longifolium hsid 2 or 3 fertile stamens ; and I do not find that the Indian A. gigan- 

 teum has always 3. I think the number of fertile stamens is not absolute, and that 

 Jill the African plants cited under A. sinicum, var. longifolia, are one species. Tlie 

 Indian A. giganteum difPers very little ; it is rather more robust, ^-ith thicker branches 

 to the panicle. 



Var, simplex, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 212. Leaf-sheaths shaggy. 



