Commelina.] OLX. COMMELINACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 369 
dehiscent and forming a persistent ligulate body, from which the posticous 
lsaway. Seeds ellipsoid or angled, reticulate pitted or rugose.—Species 
about 90, all tropical and subtropical. 
C. cælestis, Willd., a handsome robust pubescent or tomentose large-fld. species, 
à native of Mexico, is cultivated in gardens, and occurs as an escape at Darjiling 
and probably elsewhere. 
Subgen. 1. Didymoon, Clarke. Two anticous cells of the ovary 
2ovuled, posticous 1-ovuled or obsolete. 
Sect. I. EUCOMMELINA. Capsule 3-celled, two anticous cells loculicidal, 
tach usually 2-seeded ; the posticous keeled, deciduous, at length dehiscent, 
l-seeded ; seeds free in the cells. Petals blue. 
* Spathes complicate, margin free or connate at the very base only. 
l. C. nudiflora, Linn. Sp. Pl. 41 (not of others) ; leaves lanceolate, 
Hehe peduncled ovate-lanceolate complicate, seeds cylindric reticulate 
black. C. communis, Walt. Fl. Carol. 68; Wall. Cat. 8978, D, E, C; 
Kunth Enum, iv. 36 (Exel. Syn.); Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. i.; 
QUT. 144, t. i.f. 5, 6. C. cwspitosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 174, Ed. Wall. 
f Carey, L 178. O. diffusa, Burm. Fl. Ind. 18, t. 7, f. 2. C. agraria, Kunth 
:6 38; Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 26; Webb & Berthel. Phyt. Canar. ii. 356, 
238; Seub, in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. i. 261, t. 36, f. 3. C. salicifolia, Bojer 
rp Maurit, 360; Thwaites Enum. 321 (in part). C. longicaulis, 
Fa ee iii. 234, t. 294. C. deficiens, Flor. des Serres, t. 1824 (not of 
gy roughont the hotter parts of INDIA from the PansaB to CEYLON and 
SAPORE.— DISTRIB. tropics and subtropics. i Lie: 
glab creeping and rooting at the nodes or subscandent. Leaves 13-3 by 5 d ol 
: Tous scaberulous or puberulous, ciliate. Spathes 3-1 in., acute, base roun le d 
Sn ate, glabrous or pubescent, striate; peduncle 3~$ in., cymes 2, branches 1-3-fld. 
aller petals blue, outer pale or white, 
leavag l ensis, lar ke omm. & ( yyrt. Beng. t. 6 H Monogr. 147 3 
SSC d Kuasi4 Hirrs, alt. 3-4000 
A, Griffith IMALAYA, alt. 2-4000 ft. J. D. H. an 
—} in., base unequal 
Stem sle . . i 
em slender, widely creeping and rooting. Leaves 2-3 by 4 base cordate ; 
lly rounded inate 
- Spathes 11-2 in., glabrous or nearly so, acuminate, 
uncles 1.3 in.; cymes 2.fid upper branch 6-12-üd. Petals blue. Capsules 4-8. 
Puberulous, brown black. 
3. €. sub - , 1 linear, spathes 
` ulata, Roth Nov. Sp. 23; slender, leaves » Spat 
n Smal] subsessile ovate-lanceolate falcate complicate, seeds pyramidal 
tiasa uU "rLe Monogr. 148; Wall. Cat. 8979. C. striata, & C. subanran- 
Le 43 chat. mss.; Kunth Enum. iv. 44 & 658. C. linearifolia, Kuns 
Um ` Tradescantia triflora, Heyne in Herb. Rottl.: Schultes f. Syst. vu. 
The Dec fri 
CAN Pen Vi —DisTRIB. Trop. Africa. — . 
8i INSULA, Heyne, Wight, Ze li 
SCH erect from a fibrous roo "Än branched. Leaves M by i AA 
Villous) y d, pe often hooked, nearly glabrous; sheaths very short, Ent base 
we? * Spathes 4 in, long, scattered or clustered, acute, p sb! 
