372 OLX. COMMELINACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Commelina. 
ll. C. persicariwfolia, Wight in Wall. Cat. 8984 (not of DC); 
nearly glabrous, leaves large petioled ovate-cordate or lanceolate, spathes 
broadly ovate-cordate peduncled complicate, seeds oblong terete smooth oo 
obscurely rugose. Clarke Monogr. 171. C. paludosa, Burm. Thes. Zey o 
t. 20, f. 2; Moon Cat. Pl. Ceyl. 5 (not of Blume). C. benghalensis, Wat. 
Cat. 8980 H. 
DECCAN PENINSULA, Rottler. Dindygul, Wight. CEYLON, Regnaud. base 
Stems diffuse. Leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in., acuminate, glabrous or puberulous, o 
rounded. Spathes 1 in., base truncate, peduncle as long. Capsule oblong, o ei 
Var. B. geniculata, Clarke l.c. leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate.—C. wall Ws 
var. geniculata, Wall. Cat., 8978 N. Burma, at Segain.—Mixed in Watie 
distribution with obliqua and Kurzii. 
19. C. attenuata, Ken. mss. in Vahl Enum. ii. 168; glabrous or 
hirsute, leaves small sessile linear or lanceolate, spathes peduncled ob ong 
or ovate-lanceolate deeply cordate, capsule 1-celled, with 2 Parke 
seeds truncate and appendaged at both ends, or 1 subglobose seed. U y^ h 
Monogr. 172. C. rajmahalensis, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xi. Wé 
Comm. & Gast, Beng. t. 7; Monogr. 179. C. repens, Rowb, in Heyne mss. 
C. communis, Wall. Cat. 8978 B (in part). 
BEHAR, CENTRAL INDIA, and the Deccan Penrnsvuxa in dry places common. 
CEYLON, Walker. eiiim. 
Stems 12-18 in., tufted, much branched, rather slender. Leaves 1-2 by La 
obtuse or subacute, often complicate and usually recurved. Spathes 3-1; in. date. 
or caudate-acuminate, longer than their peduneles, base auricled, deeply cor ther 
Flowers small, blue. Capsule oblong-subquadrate, not constricted in the middle; or 
mE with 2 superposed seeds, or with one subglobose seed, Seeds straw-CO T^» 
ashy. 
. Subgen. II. Monoon, Clarke. All the cells of the ovary 1-ovuled. 
Sect. 4. TRITHYROCARPUS. Capsule 3-celled, subequally 3-valved. 
Seeds free in the cells. 
13. C. obliqua, Ham. in Don Prodr. 45 (not of Vahl); stem ri 
leaves lanceolate, spathes subsessile solitary or crowded funnel-s ap 
capsule trigonous obovoid, seeds ellipsoid compressed. Clarke Cot Te. 
Cyrt. Beng. t. 9, 10, 11; Monogr. 178, t. 2, f£. 3. C. polyspatha, Wig ; 
t. 2066. C. maculata, & C. striata, Edgew. in Trans. Linn Soc. 3085. 
Wall. Cat. 8953 & 8981 (in part) C. seini-ovata, Ham. in Wall. Cat. ^L of 
C. communis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 171; Ed. Wall. Carey i. 175 (not 9 
Linn.). C. Donii, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 395. C. paludosa, Blume Enum. 
Heterocarpus? obliquus, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 7. 
N 
Throughout INpta, from the base of the Himalaya to 6000 ft. ; the WESTE? 
Gunars and Singapore. CEYLON, not common.—DisTris. Malay Islds. 
Stem tall, 2-3 ft. branched.  Le«res very variable, 4-7 by 1-2 in., $ 
petioled, acute or caudate-acuminate, glabrous pubescent or villous beneath ; ane ; 
$ in., margins often bearded, Spathes 3-1} in. long and broad, sessile or pe te with 
usually in terminal heads, acute, glabrous scabrid villous or glandular-hirst 
red hairs; raceme usually simple (no lower branch). Petals blue. 8 
coloured, margins often marbled.—C. maculata is a smaller mor 
viscidly villous form. A small state from Darjeeling, alt. 5-7000 ft. 
leaves only 1-1} by 3-3 in. 
essile or 
heaths 
e 42 or 
14. C. paleata, Hassk, Pl. Jungh. 139; stem stout, leaves m ng 
broadly lanceolate, spathes shortly peduncled scattered broadly 
