Cfjanotis.^ cxlhi. coMMELixACE.ii (clakke). 81 



furth,22^Q\ Ukamba, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-JElUot, 6480! Giryama and Sluinl,a 

 Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor. 



Ziower Guinea. Ang-ola : Pungo Andongo ; on the highest rocks of tlie 

 Praisidiuni, Cazella, San Antonio, and Songue, Welwitsch, QQoO\ on rocks between 

 Candiimba and Mangue, Wehvitsch, 6653 ! and without precise locality, Wehcifsch^ 

 664S! 



IVZozamb. X>ist. German East Africa : Masai Highlands (ex K. Suhvmann). 

 Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; opposite Sena, Kirk, 21G I British East 

 Africa : Nyasaland, Buchanan, 903 !. 



The var. suhlanata (C. II. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258) is only the 

 ordinary plant with the wool more rubbed off than usual. The var. Schweinfiirthil 

 (C. B. Clarke, I.e.), i.e., Schweinfurth, 534, 535,2334, has the heads of flowers much 

 included in the leaf-sheaths. 



0. C. pauciflora, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 345. Annual, with 

 some arachnoid wool. Stems erect, 4 in. high. Leaves linear-lanceolate 

 to linear. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, much included in the 

 sheaths of the floral leaves ; cymes small, of 1-4 pairs of 2-ranked bracts. 

 — Hassk. Commel. Ind. 121, and in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 21)5; 

 C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr, Phan, iii. 250 ; Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr, v. 435 ; Martelli, Fl, Bogos. 88, Zygomenes pauclflora^ 

 Hassk. in Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop, 213, 



Nile Xiand. Eritrea : on Mount Deban, near Keren, 4580-5500 ft., Beccari, 262. 

 Abyssinia : Tigre ; Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Qiiar tin- Billon ! Shireh province, 

 Quartin- Dillon ! 



It may be doubted whether this species is other than a depauperated form of 

 C. lanata, Benth,, var. Schweinfurthii, C. B. Clarke. 



7. C. longifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 543, not of Wight. 

 Shaggy or glabrate. Stem abrupt at the base ; roots thick, somewhat 

 clavate. Central stem very short, sterile, with 3-8 leaves, (I by I in., 

 very narrowly lanceolate, or linear. Flowering stem lateral, arising 

 close to the crown of the root, 8-12 in. long, carrying 2-1 (or no) 

 leaves. Inflorescences 2 or 1, | in. broad, of 4-1 cymes ; floral leaves 

 (outermost bracts) 1-3 in. long, linear-lanceolate ; flower-bracts 2-ranked. 

 — T, Thoms, in- Speke, Nile, Append. 650 ; Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxix. 163; C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 259 excl. var. 

 y ccesjntosa ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 434 excl. var. y ; 

 Schoenl. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. 4, 07 ; K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 137 ; Schweinf. inHoehnel, Zum Budolph-See u. Step- 

 hanie-See, ii. 353; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pi. Welw. ii. 80. 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa : Unyoro district (ex K. Schumann) ; Leikipia ; 

 upper course of the Guaso Narok, 6500 ft. (ex Schweinfurth). 



Xiower Guinea. Congo ; Curror, 1 ! Angola : Huilla ; in damp rocky pas- 

 tures, 3800-5500 ft., Wehvitsch, 6595 ! Pungo Andongo ; in damp rocky pastures 

 on the Prsesidium, Wehvitsch, 6651 ! 



IVEozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Unyamwezi ; between Tura and Tabora, 

 3800 ft,, Speke Sf Grant ! British Cental Africa : Kambole, south-west of Lake 

 Tanganyika, 5000 ft., Nutt ! 



The citations of Schweinfurth and K. Schumann are of their names only— their 

 plants not having been seen. It is not improbable that these authors identified their 



