Ot/anotis.] cxLiii. coMMELiNACE.« (glarke). 79 



sometimes with spreading hair on all sides, often with a dense line of 

 shaggy hair on one side, sometimes nearly glabrate. Leaves in Schimper's 

 type collections, attaining 4 by h in., oblong-lanceolate. Inflorescences 

 6-1.") on one stem, {,-| in. in diam., of one or several clustered 

 cymes; outer bracts sometimes 1-2 in. long with elongate falcate 

 recurved tips, sometimes ovate abbreviated J in. long; cymes many- 

 flowered ; bracteoles J-J in. long, falcate-lanceolate, very regularly 

 imbricated in two rows, or in other heads on the same stem, obscurely 

 (or not) 2-ranked. Capsule J in. long. — C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. iii. 254 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 155 ; Durand ik Schiuz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 4o3 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append, 

 ii. 59 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. l?>i\ (inch var. /3 glabra); 

 Kendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 4^31. C. ahyssutlca, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 344, t. 98 ; Hassk. Commel. Ind. 189, and in Schweinf. Beitr. 

 Fl. Aethiop. 295. C. harhata, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295 

 partly, not of D. Don. Zygomenes abyssinica, Hassk. in Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 211. Commelhia hirsuta Hochst. ex C. B. Clarke in 

 DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 254, not of R. Br. nor of Kunth. 



Wile Kand. Eritrea: Mount Kube, 5900ft., Schivei»furth Sf Riva, 1511! 



Mogod Valley, -4200 ft., Schweinf urth Sf Riva, 1554 ! Ginda, 2600 ft., Schtoeinfurth, 



395; Bizen, 5800 ft., Schweinf urth, 1885; Habab, 7800 It., Eildehrandt, 371! 



Abyssinia : near Adowa, Schimper, 141 Quart iti. D illo ii ! Mount Sholoda, Schimper^ 



59, Agrima, Schimper, 584 ! near Jelajeranne (Tchelatchekenneb), Schimper, 15oG! 



Be5;cmeder ; Debra Tabor, Schimper^ 1107 ! Shireh province, Quartin-Dillon ! 



Wojerat province, Quartin-Dillon ! Shoa, Petit ! Ankober, Roth, 176! and witliout 



precise locality, Piowden ! British Eist Africa : Leikipia, 6000-8000 ft., Thomson ! 



near Mombasa, Taylor. 



XWEozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 8700 ft., Volkens, 1915 ! 



British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount Zomba Plateau, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 



Zoraba and vicinity, 2500-3500 ft., Whyte ! 



The last-cited two collections of Whyte do not show the root ; many of the species 



of Cyanotis are so much alike that I do not feel at all confident (in the absence of 



a bulb) that Whyte's specimens belong to C. hirsuta. 



2. C. parasitica, Hochst. ex Hassk. Commel. Ind. 110. Sparingly 

 hairy. Stems erect, o-4 in. long, slender, creeping at the base from 

 bulbs \ in. in diam. Flowers rather large for the genus. Otherwise 

 as C. hirsuta. — C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 250 ; Durand 

 k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 435 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 156. Zygomenes parasitica^ Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 214. 



wile Iiand. Abyssinia: Samen ; Acallo-Meda, 10,500 ft., Schimper, 506! 



The type specimens of C. parasitica are very complete, and sliow that the plant 

 is not parasitic ; its small bulbs were clustered in earth — probably in the fork of a 

 tree. 



3. C. angusta, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 2G(^. 

 Hairy. Stems 4-8 in. long, slender, erect from a bulb j in. in diam. 

 Leaves up to 3 by yV in., linear. Heads J-§ in. long, of 1 or few 

 cymes, very oblique ; the lower bract often 1 in. long, linear from 

 an oblique lanceolate base. Flowers small, the bracts crowded in 2 

 rows, shaggy. — Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 433. 



