Cyanotis.] cxLiii. coMMELiNACEJi (clarke). 83 



developed leaves, and 2-8 heads of flowers, oblique at the base, some- 

 times rooting at the lower nodes ; roots wiry, occasionally thickened at 

 the tips. Leaves on the flower stems attaining 4 by }^~'f^ in., usually 

 persistently hairy ; those of the basal tuft often larger, sometimes 

 D by 1 in. Heads usually sessile^ often J-1 in. broad, very dense, with 

 several cymes; outermost bract 1-1 J in. or more, falcate linear-oblong 

 from a broadly ovate base ; bracts in the cymes crowded, apparently 

 irregularly.— Bot. Mag. t. 5471 ; C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr, 

 Phan. iii. 257, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 14, with all synonyms; Dnrand 

 tk Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 435 ; Schoenl. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflan- 

 zenfam. ii. 4, 07, fig. 36 A ; K. Schum.in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 137 ; 

 Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 88 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 80. 



"Nile Kand. Eritrea : Keren, 4500 ft., Beccari. 



Mozamb.Sist. German East Africa, : Unyarawezi ; Uyui, 2^ay^or / Usainbara ; 

 y[\A\o {e\ K. Schumann). British Central Africa: Urungu ; Fwambo, Carson, 32; 

 Nyasaland ; Mount Zoniba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., 

 Whyte ! Ehodesia ; Inyanga Mountains, 0000-7000 it., Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 

 211! 



Frequent in South Africa. 



12. C. Manniiy C.B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258. Hair 

 scattered, shaggy. Growing in water ; stem oblique at the base with 

 many slender fibrous roots. Stems 2-12 in. long, much branched, with 

 3-21 heads, the internodes often curved, much grooved and distinctly 

 (juadrangular under the nodes. Basal leaves not seen ; stem leaves 

 2-4 by J in., linear-oblong to linear. Heads \ to J in. broad, of 1-4 

 clustered cymes ; outermost bract ovate or ovate-oblong, scarcely longer 

 than the heads. Cymes few-flowered, the falcate hairy bracts 2-ranked. 

 — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr, 156; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 434 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 80. C. abyssinica, 

 Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 21, not of A. Rich. Ci/anopogon, gen. 

 nov., Welw. ex C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 258. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 7000-9GOO ft., Johnston, 

 84 ! Mann, 1310 ! 2140 ! Buea, Pretiss, 800 ! Fernando Po : Clarence Peak, 9000 ft., 

 Mann, 616 ! 



Iio\(rer Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andougo ; in wooded places near Mangue 

 and Mutollo, 2400-3800 ft., Welwitsch, 6652 ! 



13. C. somaliensis, C. B. Clarke in Kew Bulletin, 1805, 229. 

 Shaggy. Stem woody and abrupt at the base, with slender wiry roots. 

 Basal leaves IJ in. long, narrowly triangular. Flowerhig. stem 4-0 in. 

 long, rather stout, undivided, with several leaves, and 2-8 axillary 

 heads hardly exserted from the leaf-sheaths. Stem leaves 1 by |-J in., 

 the upper (with axillary heads) shortened. Flower heads dense, the 

 bracts to the cymes appearing irregularly clustered. 



Nile Iiand. Somaliland : Golis Range ; Hammar, Miss Edith Cole ! Darra-as 

 Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Halrawal, Donaldson Smith! British East Africa : Kuwen- 

 zori, 6000-7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7813a ! 



The lower heads of flowers are included in the leaf-sheaths, the uppermost quite 



