Aneilema.] cxliii. commelixace.*: (clarke). T'i 



superposed seeds (or l).in each cell. — Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 430. Lamprodithyixis Ehrenhenjil, Hassk. in Schweiiif. Beitr. 

 FL Aethiop. 210, 295. Commelina ehracteata, Ehrenberg ex Hassk. 1. c. 



irile Iiand. Eritrea : near Togodele, in Sholios district, Ehrenherq. 



This is reduced by Sehweinfurth (in Bull, Herb, Boiss. ii. Append, ii. 58) to 

 A. Forskalei, Kunth ; which appears to ntie iinpossible, as see tlie remarks under 

 A. tacazzeanum above (p. 66). A. Ehrenherijii may have been the same as Schimper's 

 1660, 1729, i.e. A. tacazzeanum above. 



28. A. Russegeri, C. B. Clarke. Lamj/rodithyros Jhisscgeri, Fenzl 

 inSitzungsb. Akad. Wien, Math. Kat. i. Abth. ii. (IHGT)) 138 ; Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295 ; cfr. Kotschy k Peyr. PI. Tinn. 48 in obs. 



irile ILand. Nubia and Fazokl, Fenzl. 



I have no specimen of this, nor have I been able to see the original desoriptioi; of 

 Fenzl. According to Kotscb)' & Peyritsch, it is very near A. Schu-eivfurihii. 



6. ANTHERICOPSIS, Engl, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 139. 



Sepals \ in. long, lanceolate, very acute, herbaceous, striate. 

 Otherwise as Aneilema 



Species 1. Endemic. 



Engler says that the seeds are in two rows in tlie capsule, which is true in the 

 sense that they are biseriate in the culinary pea-pod. In separating this plant from 

 Aneilema, Rendle mentions various distinctive points — viz. 1st, that the 3 fertile 

 stamens belong to the external whorl; but I believe that they do not, but are as in 

 other Aneilemas ; 2nd, that the inflorescence is umbellate ; but I do not consider it is 

 even pseudo-umbellate ; I regard it as essentially that of Aneilema (Indian Section, 

 Murdannia) ; 3rd, that the pollen is echinate. I have seen the pollen well and think 

 it not echinate, and hardly more strongly granular than in some species of Aneilema ; 

 but it is without the longitudinal groove present in Aneilema ])olleii. The sepals are, 

 however, very unlike those of any Aneilema, and show an approximation to the genus 

 Buforrestia. 



1. A. Fischeri, Enc/l. in Enyl. Pfl. Ost-Afr, C. 139. Nearly 

 glabrous, 2-8 in. high. Roots wiry, 2-3 in. long, each terminated by 

 a hard ovoid tuber \-\ in. long. Stem only 1-2 in. long (exclusive of 

 the flower scape). Leaves up to 3 by J in., ovate or elHptic acute. 

 Inflorescence a panicle of 2 (or 1) distant clusters of falsely-whorled 

 pedicels; bracts sessile, lanceolate, attaining 1 J by J in., flai, not at all 

 hooded. Pedicels unequal, often J-lJ in. long in each cluster. Petals 

 J in. long. Stamens 3, fertile ; filaments without hairs ; anthers nearly 

 similar, of 2 oblong cells ; pollen small, ellipsoid-subglobose, granular, 

 not grooved longitudinally. Capsule (unripe) | by -^^^ in., with 5 or 

 more seeds in each cell in one row. — A. sejxdosa, Engl, in Engl, tk Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii.-iv. 09. Aneilema sepalosum, C. B. Clarke 

 in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 202 ; Durand & Schinz. Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 4:>2 ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 135. Gillettia sepalosa, Rendle in 

 Journ. Bot. 1890, 50, t. 355, fig. B. 



Wile Itand. Somaliland : El Modu, Donaldson Smith. British East Africo 

 Ukambi ; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2640! 



