68 cxLiii. coMMELiNACE^ (clarke). [Aneile7na^ 



Mountains, Hoehnel, 159. British Central Africa : Rhodesia ; on the road from 

 Missahi to Luia River, Nicholson ! Xyasaland ; Shire Highhiiids, Buchanan, 435. 



OUver regarded this as belonging to the ?,ect. Lamprodithyros ; K. Schmnann 

 transferred it to sect. Eu-Aneilema. 



7. A. beniniense, Kunth, Enum, iv. 78. Stem trailing 1-2 ft. 

 long, rooting near the base; the axillary shoots sometimes boring 

 through the base of the leaf -sheaths. Leaves 2~b in. long, ovate 

 elliptic or oblong, acuminate, very slightly hairy, upper much less 

 narrowed at the base than the lower. Inflorescence usually of 1 (or 2) 

 terminal peduncled dense nearly glabrous panicles 2 by 1^ in. ; the 

 cyme-peduncles often 100 or more, spreading at right angles; bracts 

 inconspicuous ; bracteoles minute, obovate ; the inflorescence is some- 

 times e volute into a mass 7 by 2 in. of a number of congested panicles. 

 Flowers very small, blue or whitish. Sepals about yV i^^- ^^^E\ *^^in> 

 ovate, concave. Fertile stamens (at least often) :> ; filaments without 

 hairs. Capsule \ by ^ in., shining, thin in texture, not truncate, 

 normally 7-r)-seeded. Seeds pale, stony. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 

 54(; ; C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 224 ; Durand & 'Schinz, Con- 

 spect. Fl. Afr. v. 430, and Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 270 ; Durand & De Wild, 

 in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. H7 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 1 80 ; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 121, incl. var. oxycarpa ;. 

 Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 79; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1S98, 

 80. Commdina beninieiisis, Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 49, t. H7. Lamp^o- 

 dithyros henhnensis ? Hassk. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 529. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia: Grand Bassa, Vogel, 40! Cape Palnias, AnseU! 

 Grold Coast, Biirlon 4' Cameron ! Ashanti, Cummins ! Togo, Buettner, 262 ! Lagos, 

 Milieu, 22 ! 91 ! Molonei/ ! Western Lagos, Roivland ! Old Calabar, Hollayid, 110 ! 

 Roll! C;imeroons : Barombi, Preuss, 1195! Batanga, Bates, 711 Fernando Po, 

 Vogel, 7 ! Barter ! Mann, 92 ! 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa: Niamniam ; at Linduku (Unduku) River, 

 i^cJiweinfiirth, 3284! at Nabambisso River, Schifeinfiirtk,ZQdS\ Ruwenzori ; Butugu 

 Valley, Scotf.miiof, 7977 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Gaboon, Du Bellay, Du Parquet. French Congo : France- 

 ville, Brrtzza. Bangui, Dyboivski, 528 ; Cape Lopez, DyboiosJci, 172 ; Congo, Smith, 

 53: 57! Lower Congo: Bingila, Dnpnis ! Blakasi, Burton! Angola: Golungo 

 Alto, 1000-2100 ft., Mata de Quibanga, Sobato Mussengue, Wehoitsch, 6600! Zengas 

 de Queta, irehcitscJi, 6600b ! in woods on the banks of streams near Trombeta, Caui- 

 bondo, iiud Sange, Welwitsch, 6601 ! 6654 ! 



I«Xozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Masuku Plateau, 6500- 

 7000 ft., irfiyfe,^()o\ Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! and without precise 

 locality, Buchanan, 1167 ! 



The nmnber of ovules is often 3 in each cell of the ovary, but not always. The 

 variation iii the size of the panicle is great. 



8. A. Rendlei, C. B. Clarke. Sparsely hairy. Stems 15 in. long, 

 undivided, rather slender. Leaves ?)\ by h in., exactly lanceolate, 

 acuminate at either end, the base almost pseudo-petiolate, with a few 

 scattered brown hairs especially on the lower margins; leaf-sheaths 

 unusually long (some 1 in. long) glabrescent. Peduncle terminal, ))-i 

 in. long, with a leaf-sheath (without leaf) in the middle. Inflorescence- 



