370 CLX. COMMELINACEZ,. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Commelina. 
cordate. Flowers small, orange-purple or violet. Capsules 2 on each raceme, 
small, 3-5-seeded, dorsal valve at length 2-partite. Seeds puberulous, deeply 
transversely grooved. 
4. C. salicifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 172, Ed. Carey § Wall. i. 176; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, spathes peduncled lanceolate complicate, seeds 
globose smooth truncate appendiculate. Clarke Comm. Ar Cyrt. Beng. t. 
2 (not of Bojer); Monogr. 157? Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 27. C. pedanculoss 
Link Jahrb. iii. 74 (in part). C. communis, Wall. Cat. 8978 C, D, F, G, 
(in part, not of Linn.). 
From AssAM and BENGAL, southward and westward to the CONCAN and 
CoROMANDEL.—DiIsTRIB. Java ? Hong Kong. . 1 
Stem slender, diffuse, with long internodes. Leaves 3-6 by 3-4 in. neary 
glabrous, sheaths ciliolate. Spathes 11-2 in., axillary, solitary, acute or acuminate, 
base rounded; branches of cyme 1-2-fld. Flowers small, dark blue. Seeds black, 
powdered with white. 
5. C. Hasskarlii, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 5; Monogr. m 
stem much branched glabrous or pubescent, leaves narrowly lanceo en 
subacute, spathes peduncled cordate glabrous scabrid or hispid complica : 
seeds cylindric-conic smooth not appendaged. C. salicifolia, var. brevi 
folia, Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. C. communis, Wall. Cat. 8978 F. (in 
part). 
The Upper Gangetic PLAIN; Kumaon and from Delhi eastward to e 
p» Bengal, and southward to the Deccan PENINSULA. Marwa, on Mt. Abo, 
uthie. 
Stem much branched, scabrid or glabrate. Leaves 1-3 by 4-3 in., subacute al 
obtuse, sheaths short, glabrous or sparsely ciliate. Spathes 4-1 in., Wi MA 
scattered, base rounded, longer than their peduncle ; cymes pubescent, upper ra 
2—4, lower 1-2-fld. Seeds truncate at one end, subacute at the other. 
** Spathe funnel-shaped or hooded. 
6. C. benghalensis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 41; stem glabrous or pu 
cent, leaves elliptic-ovate obtuse, or tip rounded, spathes 1-9 toge e 
turbinate base auricled on one side, capsule 5-seeded, seeds ragon . 
Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 4; Monogr. 159; Wall. Cat. 8980 A 3i 
D, E, F, G (in part); Hassk. Comm. Ind. 98, 29; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat 
533. Wight Ic. t. 2065. O. nervosa, Burm. Fl. Ind. 18, t. 7, f. di 
cucullata, Linn. Mant. 176. C. mollis, Jacq. Collect. iii. 235 ; Ic. Rar. 
293. C. canescens, Vahl Enum. ii. 173; Webb & Berth. Plyt. Canar p 
358, t. 239. C. turbinata, Vahl l.c. 171. C. procurrens, Belli: 
Linnæa xxiv. 656, xxv. 183; Regel Gartenfl. ii. t. 104, iv. 44; eg f. 
Mart. Fl. Bras. iii. i. 266. C. prostrata, Regel l c. 1868, 289, t. 104 
1 (not of H, B, K). C. delicatula, Schlecht. in Regel L c. iti. 349, t, a" 
Throughout INDIA; ascending to 6000 ft. in the Himalaya, —DISTRIB. TP 
Asia and Africa, : tioled, 
Stem creeping and rooting below. Leaves 1-3 by }-1} in., sessile or PP 
base suddenly contracted or rounded; sheaths pubescent or villous, often pranch 
or ciliate. Spathes 4-4 in. long and broad, pubescent or hirsute; upper mem” 
of cymes 2-3-fld., lower 1-2.fld. or suppressed. Flowers blue. Capsule 
branous, shining, dorsal value striolate. Seeds closely pitted. 
. 2- 
Sect. 2. HETEROCARPUS, Clarke. Capsule 3-celled, lateral ee fi 
seeded, dehiscent, dorsal nof keeled, 1-seeded, indehiscent, de 
seed free or adnate to the cell. Petals yellow, or blue. 
