154 147. COMMELINACEEX. 
parve. Sepala 2} lin. longa, 1 lin. lata, oblonga vel elliptico- 
oblonga, subobtusa, apice cerulea, parce pubescentia. Petula 
obovata, cerulea. Stamina 2 fertilia, 4 sterilia, filamentis barbatis. 
Capsula immatura trigono-oblonga, loculis 34-spermis, seminibus 
uniseriatis. 
Kwaneruna: Pakhoi (Playfair, 181 !). Herb. Kew. 
A very distinct and remarkable species, belonging to the same 
group as A. Keisak, Hassk.; but the stems appear usually to bear 
only one developed leaf at their base, the others being reduced 
to submembranous sheaths, which are erect and rather closely 
embrace the stem and fascicles of pedicels. 
10. Aneilema scapiflorum, Wight, var. latifolium, N. E. Brown, 
n. var.; folia quam ea typi latiora et minus acuminata, 4-7 poll. 
longa, 3-14 poll. lata. 
Harnan: Lingmen (A. Henry!) Herb. Kew. 
The type extends from the Temperate and Tropieal Himalayas 
southwards to Ceylon and Tenasserim. 
11. Aneilema sinicum, Zindl. Bot. Reg. t. 659; C. B. Clarke, 
in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. p. 212; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 
p. 379. 
Aneilema secunda, Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. vi. p. 31, t. 2075. 
Commelina sinica, Roem. et Schult. Syst. i, Mant. i., Additament. i., 
p. 376. 
Kwanetuna: West River (Ford!) at the foot of Pakwan 
Mountains (Sampson in hb. Hance, 14736); Lantao Island 
(Ford, 402!). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
India, Malay Archipelago, Tropical and South Africa?, 
Madagascar? 
I doubt the identity of the African plant with this. 
12. Aneilema spiratum, KR. Br. Prodr. p. 271 in adn. ; C. B. 
Clarke, in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. p. 207 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vi. p. 377. 
Aneilema nanum, Kunth, Enum. Pl. iv. p. 65; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 
vi. p. 31, t. 2077 ; C. B. Clarke, Commel. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 18. 
Aneilema melanostictum, Hance, in Journ. Bot. vii. (1869) p. 167. 
Hainan (Swinhoe! herb. Hance, 14412!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. 
Kew. 
India, Malay Archipelago. 
