THE COMMELTKACTSiE OF BENGAL. 449 



y. viscida I only met with once, in a shady ravine; but Dr. 

 Hooker tells me he has met with exactly the same plant in tlie 

 Khasiya Hills. I suspect it is but a variety due to local in- 

 fluences. 



3. Anilema nanum, Kunth, L c. p. 65; Wight, IconeSy t. 20/7. 



Coraraelyiia nana, Roxb. Flor. Ind. i. p. 173, & 1. 1107 in Calc. Herb. 

 Repcns, ramosum. Folia oblonga, basi baud angustata, subglabra. Pa- 



nicul^ terminales. Stamina 3 perfecta. Semina 9-18, punctata. 

 Hab. in Bengalia ubique. 



Wight 



ifl^ 



t. 2077, though specially stated to be very distinct, would be 



named nanum by me, 



A i^nnnlinnlnf/nm. "Dal/plL in Hook. ' Joumal Botany ' iii. 1. 137, 



very 



Sect. II. 



4. Anilema nudiflorum, Kunth, I.e. p. 66.— Coramelyna nudiflora, 

 Roxh. Flor. Ind. i. p. 173, Sf t. 1108 in Calc. Herb. 



Repens, ramis ereetis. Folia hneari-lanceolata, subglabra. Paniculae 

 terminales. Capsulse chartacese, brunnese, approximatse. Stamina 

 2 perfecta. Semina 6, punctata. 



Hab. in Bengalia ubique. 



This common species varies from 3 to 18 inches in height, 

 some of the hill large specimens being very near A. ensifolium. 

 Nevertheless several species have been intercalated between the 

 two by Hasskarl and others. In the whole of the laboured de- 

 scriptions of A. foliosum, A. radicans, and A. diversifoUum, by 

 Hasskarl in 'Plants Junghuhn.' pp. 142,144, there is nothing 

 to show that they are other than the forms classed here as va- 



\dijlorui) 

 Wights 



difiorum (assuming 



) 



5. Anilema ensifolium, Wight, Icones, t. 2074.— A. loriforme, 



Hasskarl in Planta Junghuhn. p. 143, ex descript. 

 Erectum, robustum. Folia linearia, subglabra. Paniculae terminales. 



CapsuljE plumbeo-lucidae, remotae. Stamina 2 perfecta. Semina 6, 



punctata. 

 Hab. in collibus Khasiya ad 3000-5000 ped. alt. 



The capsules and seeds are larger those of A. nudiflorum. 



are usually 



The 



barren : in fruit the branches are thickened, recurved, clothed 



