146. xynIDEX.—147. COMMELINACEE. 151 
an aceurate comparison by dissection, but it is either X. bancana 
or a new species, and is perfectly distinct from X. schamoides, 
Mart., with whieh Bentham identified it. 
2. Xyris pauciflora, Willd. Phytog. p. 2, t. 1. fig. 1; et Sp. 
Pl.i.p.255; Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. iii. p. 29; Kunth, Enum. Pl. 
iv. p. 17 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 379; Nilsson, in Kongl. Svensk. 
Vet.-Akad. Handl. xxiv. no. 14 (1892), p. 36; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi. p. 365. 
Kwanatune: Pakhoi (Playfair, 2!); Honexone: Happy 
Valley (Wilford, 57! Wright, 547!). Herb. Kew. 
Tonquin, India. 
147. COMMELINACE. 
(By N. E. Brown, A.L.S.) 
l. Aneilema angustifolium, A. E. Brown, n. sp. 
Herba A. sinico simillima sed minor, 6-12 poll. alta. Caules 
floriferi erecti, graciles, glabri. Folia radicalia 4-9 poll. longa, 
1i-3 lin. lata, linearia, acuta, glabra; caulina simillima sed 
minora, 1-3 poll. longa, vaginis ciliatis. Panicule terminales, 
pauciramose, glabre ; rami 1-3 poll. longi, parte florifera cicatri- 
cibus approximatis notata. Bractee 1j lin. longs, ovate, acute 
vel subacutz, caduce. Pedicelli 14 lin. longi. Sepala 13-2 lin. 
longa, ovata, subobtusa. Petala circa 2 lin. longa, csrulea. 
Stamina 2 fertilia, 8 sterilia, filamentis barbatis. Capsula tri- 
gona, 13 lin. longa, obtusa, apiculata. Semina foveolato-rugosa, 
minutissime furfuracea. 
Aneilema nudiflorum, R. Br., var. rigidior, Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 377. 
Formosa: Takow (4. Henry, 1897 !), and without precise 
locality (Oldham, 576 partly!); SzECHUEN : above Chungking 
(Faber, 106!); Kwanerune: Lantao Island (Ford, 398 *), Pak- 
hoi (Playfair, 135 !, 225!); Honexone (Wright, 546!). Mus. 
Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
2. Aneilema divergens, C. B. Clarke, Commel. d Cyrt. Beng. 
t. 165 et in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 203; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi. p. 376. 
Aneilema herbaceum, Wall., var. divergens, C. B. Clarke, in Journ. 
Linn. Soc., Bot. xi. (1870) p. 448. 
