74 oxLiii. coMMELiXAt'E.E (clarke). [AiieUema. 



I in., lanceolate, acute. Inflorescences of about 8 flowers "in axillary 

 cymes " {Rendle), or rather terminal on short axillary branches ; bracts 

 to the lower cyme-branches -|— j in. long and leaf-like; no small ovate 

 empty bracts on the primary panicle branches. Stamens 3 or 2 fertile, 

 3 sterile. Capsule jV in. long, the two anterior cells 2- (or 1-) seeded, 

 the dorsal cell 1 -seeded. Seeds stony, much as those of species of the 

 section Lamjjrodithyros. 



Srile ]band. British East Africa : Lower Tana Valley at Lake Dumi, Gregory I 



24. A. Taylori, C. B. Clarke. Sparingly pubescent. Fragment 

 of stem seen 8 in. long, with 4 inflorescences on short axillary branches. 

 Leaves attaining | by \ in., broadly lanceolate, acute. Inflorescence 

 very weak, lax, subdichotomous, without bracts at the main divisions ;. 

 branches slender l-% in. long, with several small empty ovate bracts 

 below, and few capsules on pedicels \ in. long. Capsule less than J in. 

 long, 2-celled, 4-.«eeded, very thin, white, papery. 



Ulle Zaand. British East Africa : Fimbine, in the Kabai Hills, near Moinbasa, 

 Taylor ! 



Imperfectly known species. 



25. A. Sacleuxii, Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Kat. Par. i. 121. 

 Panicle loose, elongate ; peduncles pubescent ; bracts lanceolate ; 

 cymes peduncled, 4-6-flowered, sometimes 2-3 close together, with 

 acute bracteoles ciliate at the base. Capsule stalked, 2-angled at the 

 top, 2-valved. Seeds 2 in each cell, a third 1 -seeded (or empty) cell 

 added. 



Mozamb. Dlst. Zanzibar?, Sacleiix. 



Next to A. tacazzeanum. The bracts and bracteoles as described appear very 

 unlike those of any plant in sect. Amelina. The description (except as to the capsule 

 being 2-angled at the top) might do for A. soudanicum. 



26. A. hirtum, J . i?«cA. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 343. Koot fibrous. 

 Stem a span high, much branched from the base, hairy. Leaves oval- 

 oblong, acute. Panicle terminal, dichotomous from the base, many- 

 flowered; primary peduncles paired, 2 in. long. Capsule obcordate, 

 compressed ; cells 2, with one long ovoid seed in each cell. — Lanijwodi- 

 thyros hirtus, Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295. 



Urile Ziand. Abyssinia : Shireh province, in moist places near Kouaieta, 

 Quartin-Dillon (ex A. Richard). 



The whole of the above is condensed irom A. Richard's description. I have little 

 doubt, from the description of the inflorescence, that this was a species of Floscopa ; 

 it certainly was if A. Richard is connect as to the obcordate capsules with one seed in 

 each c6ll. In DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 228, I have confused it with an Aneilema, 

 described above (p. 72) under the name A. Wht/tei. 



27. A. Ehrenbergii, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 220. 

 A procumbent rootiug heib. Leaves round-ovate or ovate, acute, 

 ciliate at the base. Inflorescence teiminal, or terminal on lateral 

 branches, loosely panicled, minutely bracteate at each division, with 

 spreading branches. Flowers small. Fruits shining, 2-celled, with 2 



