711 



t. 55 {31. platypliylla)] Gartenfl. xxxvii. 1888, p,. 292 (var. grandi- 

 Jlora); Wiener, 111. Gart.-zeit. 1895, p. 285; Wood, Natal PI. iv. 

 t. 396. 



Veriiac. names. — Agananmaigbo, E\veaje(Ebute Metta, Milieu) ; 

 Egwarere (Benin, Farqiihar) ; Ewa-aje (Yoruba, Farquhar) ; 

 Ewa-aje (Lagos, 3IacGregor, Dawodii); Umakhu (Aguku, S. 

 Nigeria, Thomas), — African Metlionica (Bot. Mag. I.e.). 



Lagos, Aboh, Lower Niger, Benin, Lokoja, Bornu; also 

 known from the Cameroons, Sierra Leone, and widely distributed 

 in Tropical Africa, in Natal and Madagascar. 



Like the foregoing, a handsome decorative plant, to which 

 the same general particulars will apply; well known in culti- 

 vation. The flowers as in superba are bright red-yellow; but 

 the perianth segments are not crisped, or only slightly so; they 

 are also sometimes tinged outside with green — this being more 

 or less so in the early flowering stage of both species. 



COMMELINACEAE. 



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Palisota, Reichb. 



Palisota Barteri, Hooh, t; El Trop. Afr. VIIT. p. 29. 



III. — Bot. Mag. t. 5318; De CandoUe, Monogr. Phanerog. 

 iii. (1881), t. 5. 



Cameroons, Fernando Po. 



A decorative plant cultivated at Kew; stems 1-5 in., leaves 

 near the base about 24 in. long and 4| in. across. Inflorescence 

 a dense panicle with 100-250 flowers. 



Palisota thyrsifiora, Be7ith.; Fl. Trop. Afr, VII. p. 31. 



III. — De Candolle, Monogr. Phanerog. iii. (1881), t. 5, f. 4. 



Vernac. names. — Ojo (Lagos, MacGregor, Phillips); Jang- 

 borokun, Rogbo Agutan (Lagos, Dennett); Ikpele Oku (Awka, 

 S. Nigeria, Thomas); Doomwi, Esita (Sierra Leone, Lane-Poole); 

 Ndomi (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot). 



Lagos, Old Calabar, Aboh, Oban, and widely distributed in 

 West Africa from Senegambia to the Cameroons and the Congo. 



Stems 3-15 ft. long. A decorative plant; used commonly 

 for hedges. Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 3, 

 1893, p. 43). 



CoMMELiis^A, Linn. 



Commelina nudifloraj Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VIII. p. 36, 



III. — Webb & Berth. Isles Canaries, Phyt. iii. t. 238 {Comme- 

 lyna agraria); Rchb. Icon. Hort.-Bot. t. 136; Clarke, Commeh 

 et Cyrt. Bengal, t. 1 (C. communis). 



Vernac. 7}ames. — Balasa or Balasaya; Kununguru (Hausa, 



Dahiel). 



Katagum, Opobo, Old Calabar, Cameroons and widely dis- 

 tributed in Tropical Africa and generally in the tropical and 

 warm temperate regions of the world. 



