Anetlema. | COMMELINACER (Clarke). | 13 
Monogr. Phanerog. iii. 221 to be BE tea Be or ‘fide A. Rich. blue”; J. M. Wood 
has noted them ‘ blue’ in his 4507. 
3. A. dregeanum (Kunth, Enum. iv. 73); stems 12-18 in. long; 
leaves elliptic- ate thinly oe or nearly glabrous; panicle 
small, dense, prim axis erect; branches numerous, horizontal ; 
petals small, blue or ay aes fresh) pik; stamens 3 fer tile, 3-2 sterile ; 
capsule { in. long, 2-eelled, quadrate-oblong, papery, perfecting 4 
stony seeds. Com melina comosa, Drége, Ph. Dokumente, 150, 174. 
Lamprodithyros rep Jeanus, Hassk. in Peters’ Mossamb. 529. 
Var. 8, Galpini ; ey in all parts; leaves ovate, 4 by 2 in., suddenly 
narrowed at base into a quasi-petiole; noone ni by 13 in. ; capsule quadrate- 
globose, ae 2 seus abate nearly 2 in 
KALAHARI REGION Var. es ansvaal; sealed near Barberton, 2000 ft., 
Galpin, 1187! 
EASTERN Reaion: Pondoland; between Umtata River and St. Johns River, 
Drége, 4471! Natal; Inanda, Wo od, 479 partly! Umzinyati, Wood, 1220! 
and bide precise locality, Mrs. Sawnders ! P eerhita, 1837! Zululand, Mrs. 
McKenzie 
Also in South-East Trop. Africa, 
III. COLEOTRYPE, C, B. Clarke. 
Inflorescence axillary, piercing the base of the cylindric leaf-sheath. 
Corolla-tube linear, as long as the blue segments. Stamens 6, sub- 
sessi ll 
ovules 2~1 in each cell. Capsule trigonous-ovoid, 3-celled, loculi- 
cidally 3-valved, hairy at top; seed 1 (rarely 2) in each cell, 
Disrris. Species 1 in Natal, 3 or 4 in Madagascar. 
C. natalensis (C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr, iii. 239, 
nearly abel, or innovations (sometimes 7 strigose ; wit 
1-21 ft. long, diffuse, branching ; leaves 5 by 1 in in., lanceo ate ; owers 
- densely clustered ; sepals free, boat-shaped, 4 in. long, tips linear 
strigose ; corolla | in. long, blue; stamens nearly eq the three 
Poskioon a the dorsal cell of ca psule) rather smaller; capsule 
n. lo d; seed 1 in each bell, oblong-ellipsoid. 
— " Bagion: agg ot? baa Durban, Wood, 3396! MacOwan and Bolus, 
Afr., acOwan, Herb. Aust. ihe 1564! Inanda, 
Wood, 179" ! ‘oat mae without. pisaion locality, Sanderson, 438 
IV. CYANOTIS, D. Don. 
Flowers in rT. axillary and terminal clusters. Petals 3, free at 
insertion, then connate (more or less completely) into a cylindric 
tube, terminated oy 3 round blue or pink-purple segments. Stamens 6, 
Sats fertile, free or nearly free from the corolla ; aya Re bearded 
ed hai vary 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell. Capeule 
Pp mp! 
disc) terminal, at the top of the upper seed in each cell, at the 
bottom of the lower, covering (as always in Commelinacee) the 
embryo. 
