HC) CXLIII, COMMELINACEiE (cLARKE). [FloSCOVa. 



2. Po Mai^T«ii^ C. B, Clarke in DC Monogr. Phan. iii. 208. Frag- 

 ments of stems 4-7 in. long, undivided, rooting from the lower nodes, 

 glabrate. Leaves 2|^ ^y Ig in., elliptic, when mature nearly glabrous, 

 the leaf -sheaths shaggy ; tip shortly triangular, not acumina,te ; base 

 triangular on a quasi-petiole ,y-| in, ]ong. Panicle terminal, 1\ in. 

 long and broad, thin, subdichotomonsly branched, sparingly pubescent, 

 much overtopped by the upper leaves ; cymes small, with small flowers 

 and capsules. — Durand k Schinz, Conspect, Fl. Afr. v. 436. 



"Stovtreiv Guinea. Spa-nish Gaboon : Corisco Bay, in wet places, Mann, 1867 ! 

 This looks very unlike the other species of the genus, but the I'ipe capsules and 

 seeds are those of JVo^vc(???a. 



3. F, rivis,la.]ris, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 267, inA. 

 va,r. /3. Stems 1-2 ft. long, rather robust, glabrate, not or scarcely divided, 

 decumbent and rooting at the base. Leaves 2-4 by J-| in., oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, gla.brate, sessile on the sheaths. Panicle 1-2J in. 

 long, dense, with much brown hair, exserted above the uppermost 

 lea.ves. Capsule yV~8 ^^' long. Seeds of the genus, conical depressed, 

 with ribs radiating from the embryostega, sometimes densely covered 

 with white circular short-stalked glandular discs (which wea.r off more 

 or less), sometimes black, with reticulated hexagonal cells, and no (or 

 few) glands. — Durand k Schinz, Conspeot. Fl. Afr. v. 486 ; Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 157 (incl. var. /3) ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 137 ; Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 122. Aneihma 

 rivula.re, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 342. La^mprodithyros rimdariSf 

 Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl, Aethiop. 211, 295 ; Baker in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc, xxix. 163. Dithyrocarpf^ts sp., T. Thorns, in Speke, Nile, 

 Append, 650. 



JfiJe l^and. Abyssinia: Shireh : neav Kouaieta, Quart in-Dillon ! by the 

 Addo-Hohot streHm. in the valley of the River Mareb, Quartin- Dillon ! Wojerat 

 district, Q.uaHin- Dillon ! Begemeder ; Senka Berr, on the River Reb, and Plains 

 of Dembea,' worth of Lake Tana, 6000-8000 ft., Schimper, 1226! British East 

 Africa ! Bongo ; between Dugu and Duggudu, Schweinfurth, 2099 ! Duggudu^ 

 Schtveinfurth, 2269 ! Dar Fertit : Nguggu (P Nduggu), Schnwinfnrth, ser. iii., 212 t 

 Ukidi (Unyoro), Sjyekg 4' Gi'ant ! Ukamba, 5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6918 ! 



Upper 6>i3iiinea. Senegal, Bellamy, 193 (ex Hua). 



IMEozasnb. 3>i!l»t. Uerman East Africa : Masai Highlands and Region c^ the 

 Great Lakes, up to 8000 ft. (ex K. Sclmmann) ; Wadihonia (? Kwadiboma), Fischer,. 

 597 ! British Central Africa : Urungu ; Fwambo, 5250 ft., Carlson, 39 ! Nuit ! 

 Nyasaland ; Tanganyika Plateau at Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte i Masuka 

 Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., Whyte I Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! 

 Shire Highlands, Buchanan. 333 ! Zomba, 5CXX) ft.. Kirk 1 and without precise 

 locality, Buchanan, 818! 



4. P, glomerata^ Hassk. Commel. Ivd. 166. Seeds without 

 radiating ribs from the embryostega ; otherwise as F. rivida.ris. — 

 0. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 267, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 

 15 ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 486 ; K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 187; Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 53, 

 and in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 80. Tradescantia glomerata, Roem. «fc 



