Commelina.) OLX. COMMELINACES, (J. D. Hooker.) 373 
eneullate, seeds broadly ellipsoid smooth. Clarke Monogr. 178. Comme- 
lina, sp. No. 6. Herb. Ind. or Hf. § T. Trithyrocarpus paleatus & T. 
eligospathus, Hassk. Commel. Ind. 25. 
The Deccan PENINSULA ; the Concan and Malabar, Law, Stocks, &c.—DisTRIB. 
ava, 
Stem branched, glabrous. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., glabrous or scaberulous, 
acuminate, base rounded or cuneate. Spathes 4 in., crowded or not, scaberulous 
or finely pubescent, striate, base broad, rhomboid. Petals blue. Seeds dark 
brown, sometimes margined with white, broader and less compressed than in C. 
obliqua, of which it is perhaps a var. with peduncled spathes. 
15. C. undulata, Br. Prodr. 970; stem stout, leaves lanceolate 
waved, spathes subsessile ovate hooded acute, seeds shortly ellipsoid 
smooth. Clarke Monogr. 179. QC. ensifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. viii. 
60; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 83 (in part) (not of Br.). C. setosa, Wight in 
Wall. Cat. 8981 D. 
The Deccan PENINSULA ; in the southern provinces, Wight.—DistB1B. Australia 
ina, Philippine Islds., &c. . . 
No doubt a slight variety of C. obliqua. Clarke refers the only Indian specimen 
(Wight's) to a variety (B. setosa) with elongate leaves 4-5 by }-4 in. The locality 
£ven, “Nopaloy,”’ is meant for Nopalry, cultivated Opuntia fields in which Wight 
found many weeds, J. D. H. 
. Sect. 5. HyTEROPYXIS. Capsule 3-celled, 2-valved, the dorsal cell 
Indehiscent, deciduous, often scabrid. Seed adnate to the cell. 
4,19. €. albescens, Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. 210; leaves 
“ar or linear-lanceolate, spathes subsessile strongly recurved hoode 
‘uricled on one side falcately hooked on the other, seeds ellipsoid com- 
Pressed smooth. Clarke Monogr. 184. C. striata, Wall, Cat. 8981 (in 
S 7b not of others). ©. Schimperiana and multicaulis, Hochst. an 
Mj ae, Herb. No. 1242 and No. 2268. Commelina, Sp. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. 
RIND, Stocks, & i i Africa. 
, c.—DisTRi5. Beluchistan, Arabia, trop. . . 
em 1-2 ft., thickened at the base, glabrous. Leaves 2-3 by 1-3 in., margins 
White, often waved. S ` folded, glabrous or sparsely 
ispi . athes à in. long and broad as folded, g . 
DE: raceme usually simple. Petals blue. Seeds black, spotted with dull 
Yellow, 
17. ©. Kurz in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xi. 144; Comm. § 
Cyrt, Beng. t. e Di ine 2 f.4; stem stout, leaves subsessile 
narrowly lanceolate acuminate scaberulous puberulous or hirsute, spat to. 
Sessile usually capitate cucullate or broadly cordate and complicate acute, 
"Zeie in the lateral cells broadly ellipsoid compressed smooth, i " 
oma hemispheric. C. longifolia, Thwaites Enum. 322 (not of Lam ^V € 
communis, and C. striata, Wal. Cat. 8978 C, D (in part) and 8981 be 
WV C. angustifolia, Hassk. as to Thwaites C. P. 3224, Commelina, Sp. 
all. Cat, 8982. ` 
Crit SOUTHERN Deccan PENINSULA, Malabar and the Nilghiris, Rottler, &c, 
t kees i inate, sheaths 
ciliate” 1-2 ft., hairy or glabrate. Leaves 2-6 by j-j in., "d hn oad, raceme 
simple, ‘SPathes recurved, solitary or clustered, 1 in. long an dly distinguish- 
able di Petals blue, Capsule with the dorsal cell scabrid.—Hardly 1 8 hd 
* from the common American C. virginica, L., except by its country and shghtly 
