80 cxLiii. coMMELiXACE.E (clakke). [C>/anotis. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Ti-rritory : Xupe, on rooky soil, Barter, 1476. 

 laower Cuineai Congo Free State: Lower Congo; Kisantu, on the Inkissi 

 River, Gillef ! 



A-. C. foecuuda, Ilassk. Commd. lad. 110. More or less shaggy. 

 Stems G-14 in. long, weak, rising obliquely from bulbs \-\ in. in diam. 

 Leaves 2 J by \ in. or (as in K. Schumann's plant) much smaller, 

 oblong-lanceolate, not narrowed into a pseudo-petiole at the base. 

 Inflorescences numerous, hardly J in. long, quite or nearly included in 

 the leaf-sheaths ; bracts not (or obscurely) 2-seriate. — C. B. Clarke in 

 DC. Monogr.- Phan. iii. 255 ; Durand k Schinz, Conspect, Fl. Afr. 

 V, 43o ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 137. C. montana, 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. I-jO ; Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspec. Fl. Afr. v. 434. Commelina fifc^nula, Hochst. ex C. B.Clarke 

 in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 255. 



Wile Ziand. Kritrea : Plain of Keren, Steudner, 1485. Abyssinia : Serraba, 

 in Uschan, 5000-6000 ft., Schimper, 4^h^\ Samen, Schimper, 1242! Berrechowa,. 

 5200 ft., SMmjyer, 280 ! 



IVXozamb. ]>ist. German East Africa : Unyamwezi district (ex K. Schumann) ; 

 Usambara ; Duga, JIolH, 3163 ! Britisl) Centrai Africa : Matabelelanil, Elliott ! 



Also in Arabia. 



K. Schumann notes that this species belongs to the sect. OchrecBjlorce as defined 

 in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 244:. Tliis is so. But, from the bulbous roots, I think 

 still that its true affinity is here. 



5. C. lauata, Benth. in Hook. Nvjer Fl. 542. Annual, with woolly 

 fine hair, persistent about the bracts. Stems 4-18 in. long, often erect, 

 slender, much divided, sometimes thicker and decumbent at the base^ 

 rooting at the nodes. Leaves up to 3 by \ in, (often much smaller) nar- 

 rowly oblong-lanceolate. Inflorescences scattered, axillary and peduncled, 

 often numerous, of 1-4 clustered cymes, \-% in. in diam. ; outermos^t 

 bract usually ^-1 in. long, similar to the leaves but widened at the base ; 

 bracts falcate in 2 rows in the cymes of Bentham's type, but densely 

 packed and very obscurely 2-ranked in the nodose heads in Schwein- 

 furth's. — C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258, inch both 

 varieties; Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 434; Schoenl. in 

 Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. 4, G7 ; Bendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 431, and in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 80 (inch both varieties); K. Schum. 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 137; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. 

 i. 122 (inch var. suhlanata). C. Schweinfurthii, Hassk. Commel. 

 Ind. 134, and in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 295. C. harhata, 

 Schweinf. Fl. Aethiop. 295 partly, not of D. Don. Cyanopogon 

 sp., Schweinf. ex C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258. 



Upper Cruinea. Senegambia, Hev.delot, 276 ! Senegal, Bellamy, 8, 639, 665. 

 Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Morson ! Dahomey, Menager. Lagos : Abeokuta, a weed 

 in Yam ground, Millen, 100 ! Irving, 101 ! Yoruba, Mill-son ! Niger Territory : 

 Nupe, Barter, 1475 ! Jeba, on the '^\^er. Barter ! Lower Niger : Patteb Mountain, 

 Vogel, 183! Quorra (River Niger), Togel, 122. \ Cameroon s : Yaunde, 2600 ft,, 

 Zenker Sf Standt, 502 ! 



Wile Xiand. Gallabat : region of Matamnia, Schiceinfurlh, 534! 535! British 

 East Africa: Jur; Jur Gl.attas, Schiceinfurth , 2334! Bongo; Gurfala, Schwein- 



