7G cxLiii. COMMELIXACE.E (clarke). \ Anther icojjsis. 



Mozamb. Dist. German Kast Africa: Uniba Valley, Smith! Masai High'- 

 lands, Fischer, 258. Portuguese East Africa: in a journey to the mouiitaiiis oast of 

 Lake Xyasa, Sleeve 1 



7. BUPOBRESTIA, C. B. Clarke ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. 850. 



Sepals 3, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong. Petals 3, obovate. Stamens 

 (), perfect; filaments without hairs. Ovary subequally o-celled. 

 •Capsule oblong, 3-valved. Seeds 4-lU in each cell, iu one vertical 

 row. — Leaves with long cylindric sheaths, which are not rarely pierced 

 at the base by a roundish hole through which a lateral shoot or a 

 peduncle is extended. Panicle open. 

 Species, 2 in Tropical Africa, 1 in Cayenne. 



Sepals in fruit \ in. long, glabrous, striate . . \. B. Mannii. 



Sepals in fruit \ in, long, viscid-hairy . . . 2. -B. imperforaia. 



1. B. Mannii, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monoyr. Phan. iii. 233, t. ll. 

 Nearly glabrous. Stem 2 ft. long. Leaves up to 6J by '2'^ in., tip 

 shortly acuminate, base cuneate. Peduncles none near the end of stem, 

 but boring through the base of the leaf-sheaths, 1-3 in. long. Panicle 

 2 by J in., about 12-flowered ; pedicels 3 or 4 in each false whorl, h in. 

 long, with an oblong bract about \ in. long at their base. Sepals J in. 

 long in fruit, elliptic-lanceolate, striated, glabrous, "green" {Mann)\ in 

 flower hardly \ in. long. Petals white {Mann). Capsule \-l in. long, 

 oblong, glabrous, with 4-7 seeds in. each cell. — Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 432. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann^ 96, 



The material consists of If in. of the middle of the stem, with 2 leaves and 

 2 peduncles ; and of 1^ in. of the tip of the stem with 3 leaves. 



2. B. imperforata, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 2'd4:, t. 7. 

 Plant thinly viscous with scattered brown several-celled hairs. Stem 

 often rooting near the base ; branches 10-20 in. long. Leaves 4 by 1| 

 in., acuminate, acute ; lower leaves much smaller, sometimes reduced to 

 sheaths. Peduncles several from the axils of the uppermost closely 

 approximated leaves, very short, irregularly branched, bearing ultimate 

 racemes ; in these racemes, the small broad bracts ^ in. long are mostly 

 sterile, the upper bracts only bearing a pedicel ^-J in. long (exactly as 

 in many species of Aneilema). Sepals in fruit about i in. long, viscid 

 hairy, dark green. Petals small, white, or " white with purple streaks " 

 {Welwitsch). Capsule J by ^ in., with 6-10 seeds in each cell. — Durand 

 & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 433 ; Durand k De Wild, in Comptes- 

 rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 87 ; Bendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 80. 

 B. minor, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 136. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone ; Kukuna, near the River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 

 4678 partly ! Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 2500 f t , Mann, 1340 ! Freuss, 

 1297 ! near the Lobe lliver waterfall, near Batanga, Fates, 145 ! Barombi, Freuss, 

 287 ! Efulen, Fates, 258 ! Lolodorf, Standi, 385 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 1094! Fernando 

 Bo, 2000 ft., Mann ! 



