368 OLX. COMMELINACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pollia 
glabrous or scaberulous above. Peduncle villous with deflexed hairs ; panicle viscid'y 
pubescent ; bracts oblong, persistent. Sepals elliptic, glabrous or puberulous. Petai g 
white or pale pink. Fruit as in P. Aclisia.—The Indian forms occur uncer 
varieties. , 
Var. indica; leaves subsessile caudate-acuminate glabrous or puberulous beneath, 
pedicels viscid, sepals persistent, the posterior pendulous. P. indica, Thwaites ege 
323. Aclisia indica, Wight Ic. t. 2068; Hassk. Commelin. Ind. AL A. elegan, 
Hassk. PL Jungh. 49; Comm. Ind. 50. Commelina secundiflora, Blume mE . 
Aneilema secundiflorum, Kunth Enum. iv. 69.—The Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. 
—Java. . 
Var. gigantea ; panicle corymbosely-dichotomous, branches panicled at the tips 
1-2 lower branches elongate. `P. indica, var. A, Clarke in Journ. Linn. p h) 
xi. 451. P. japonica, Hance in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1878, 233 (not si Comm. 
Aclisia gigantea, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 46. A. indica, Herb. Wt. J Clar e os 
d: Cut, Beng. t.29. Aneilema didymum, Wall. Cat. 5202.—From Sikkim eastw 
and southwards,—China. 
4 P. subumbellata, Clarke in Journ.. Linn. Soc. Bot. xi e 
Monogr. 129; panicle sessile depressed, branches subumbellately ds ta, 
stamens 3 perfect, capsule globose, cells many-seeded. Aclisia umbe Wa D 
Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 30. Aneilema reniforme, Ham. tn Or. H. 
Cat. 5205. Aneilema, sp. Wall. Caf. 9070. A. sp. 3, Herb. Ind. Orv 
f.& T. Dictyospermum Wightii, var. robustum, Hassk. Commenn. P 
19. 
EASTERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim, the Bhotan and Mishmi hills, ascending to 
6000 ft. Assam, SILHET, CACHAR and MUNNIPORE. 1-2 in. 
Stem creeping and rooting below, then suberect. Leaves 3-4 by faces. 
petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, scaberulous on both S Geng, 
Panicle puberulous; bracts small; bracteoles amplexicaul, persistent, E "en, 
Sepals rounded, glabrous, enclosing the globose blue fruit which is 3m 
Petals white, Seeds trapezoid, dorsally much flattened, brown, smooth. 
5. P. pentasperma, Clarke Monogr. 129; panicle peduncled gien 
lanceolate, stamens 3 perfect, frait ovoid narrowed into a long beak ac? s 
cells 1-2-seeded. Kohima, 
Kuasta HILLS; at Shillong, alt. 4000 ft., Clarke. MUNNIPORE; ON 
alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. . ly-petioled; 
Stem erect; sheaths long, pubescent. Leaves 3-6 by 14-24 in., shortly one and 
caudate-acuminate, elliptic, acute at both ends, slightly scaberulous a° bracts 
pubescent beneath. Peduncle pubescent with deflexed hairs, subumbellate crescen a 
oblong; bracteoles imbricate, ochreate, persistent. Sepals puberulous, acc Poth, 
Fruit 4 in. long including the beak, which is as long as the body, hard, 8 
brown, shining. Seeds much compressed, rugulose. 
2. COMMELINA, Linn. 
usually 2-fid 
: . ` -shaped 
s, em i or funnel 
cymes, emerging one at atime from a terminal complicate deciduous, ° 
one larger and often clawed. Stamens 3 perfect, and 2-3 imperfect; wal , 
oblong, one usually largest. Ovary 3-rarely 2-celled, 2 cells 1- - ticon8 
third cell if present 1-ovuled or empty. Capsule loculicidal, the Piate in- 
cell sometimes indehiscent or 0, or the 2 anticous cells empty con? 
