374 CLX. COMMELINACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Commelina. 
by its hairyness. A variety (8. glochidea Koon. mss. Wall. Cat. 8981 B. (in part) 
has elliptic-lanceolate scabrous or nearly glabrous leaves. 
18. C. appendiculata, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. 13; Monogr: 
186 ; leaves sessile linear or linear-lanceolate, spathes very long-peduns ge 
lanceolate deeply cordate complicate, seeds oblong smooth appendage ts 
both ends, or in the dorsal cell smaller or 0. C. communis var. senge? , 
Wall. Cat. 8978 K. C. alba, Ham. mss.—Commelina, sp. 4, Herb. Ind. Or. 
Hf. & T. 
NORTHERN BENGAL, Hamilton; MywENsSINGH, Clarke. SIKKIM HIMALAYA; 
foot of the hills, J. D. H., Clarke. SıLHET, Clarke. CEYLON, Macrae, óc. h ends 
Diffusely branched, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves 4—6 by 4—3 in., narrowed at bot Stel 
nearly glabrous. Spathes 2-3 in., glabrous without, hairy within, striate, ee? or 
acuminate, base cordate; raceme 2-fid. Petals blue or white. Capsule 
3-celled (the dorsal often 0). Seeds somewhat flattened, nearly black, appendages 
conical. 
Sect. 6. SrATHODITHYROs. Capsule 2-celled. (See also C. appendiculata.) 
19. C. suffruticosa, Blume Enum. 3; stem stout, leaves Kerg 
sessile lanceolate scabridly pubescent, spathes small shortly pe lii soid 
broadly ovate-cordate between cucullate and complicate, seeds N rd 
rugose. Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. 12; Monogr. 188, t. 2, d he in 
semiovata, Wall. Cat. 8985 C, E. C. Simsoni & C. rugulosa, C "Hassk. 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot, xi. 446.  Spathodithyros suffruticosus, 
Comm. Ind. 11. 
: he 
Tropical INDIA from Nepal, Sikkim and Bengal to Central India and t 
Malay Peninsula.—Disrris. Malay Islds. . , . sheaths 
Stem branched, nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-14 by $-2 in., semi" anio 
auricled. Spathes 4-4 in. long and broad, longer than their peduncle, Faite ot 
or clustered, acute or obtuse, villous ; raceme simple, 6—-12-fld. Petals 
blue. Seeds straw-colrd., puberulous. 
20. C. ensifolia, Br. Prodr. 269; leaves linear-lanceolate, spathes 
very shortly peduncled broadly ovate acute cucullate, seeds SCH 
smooth. Clarke Monogr. 188; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 83 (in Palina sp: 
striata, Wall. Cat. 8981 (in part). C. lunata, Heyne mss. Comme 
striate affinis, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 90. alia 
Deccan PENINSULA, Rottler, Ee, CEYLON, Walker, &c.—DI8STRIB. Zeg 
Stem 12-18 in., slender. Leaves 2-4 by j-j in., glabrous, or with margin, 
hairs, or villous. Spathes 3-3 in., glabrous or hairy, base truncate on one 
hooked at the other; raceme simple. 
DOUBTFUL AND INDETERMINABLE SPECIES. hs h 
C. AVENEFOLIA, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 224; leaves sparsely hairy, sheaths 
spathes truncate.—Bombay, near Kandalla. 
C. NiMMONIANA, Grah. Le: small, leaves linear acuminate d 
Bombay, on Malabar hill and near Rosa and Ellora. 
C. ZEYLANICA, Falkenb. in Just. Jahresb., iv. 406, 408, name only. 
C. communis, Linn. and C, BENGALENSIS, Linn., of Dalzell & G 
Flor. are undeterminable from the descriptions. l 
airy, 
iscoloured.— 
ibson Bomb. 
3. ANEILEMA, Pr. axillary 
Simple or branched, often tuberous rooted herbs. Flowers jathaceous- 
and terminal panicles, bracteate and bracteolate; bracts not spa 
