levis, nitens, subcolorata, ovato-triquetra, velata, loculis l-spermis: sem. me- 
lino-pallentia, imo loculorum angulo affiza, elliptica, transversè rugulosa, 
dorso medio immerse embryonifera. 
ANEILEMA has an indeterminately panicled inflorescence 
without any general involucre; CoMMELINA, its nearest re- 
lative, has an inflorescence regularly disposed on a common 
peduncle furnished with a general involucre (sometimes 
folded, sometimes convolute); differences which are found 
to induce others less determinate in the general habit of 
the mutual species of the two groups, and which prove 
the proprie&y of their separation. 
The.plant of our figure was the produce of Chinese 
seed, imported by the Horticultural Society, in whose hot- 
house it flowered last summer for the first time in this 
country. There is a sample in the Banksian Herbarium at 
Mr. Brown's, which was collected by Sir George Staunton 
near Canton. 
The species is closely akin to ANEILEMA gigantea of New 
Holland, a sample of which was kindly sbown to us by Mr. 
Brown; but that is a tall plant, three feet high or more, 
with very narrow linear leaves, and the three bearded sta- 
mens have all perfect anthers. The present plant is not 
more than nine or ten inches high, has broadish ligulate 
leaves, and one of the three bearded stamens is without an 
anther, or at least has only the very imperfect rudiment of 
one. Could we have compared the living plants, other 
points of difference would most probably bave been ob- 
tained. 
