Aneilema.] CLX. COMMELINACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 375 
Sepals 3, free, membranous. Petals 3, obovate, equal. Stamens 2 or 3, 
ents naked or bearded ; anthers oblong, one usually smaller or larger 
than the others: staminodes 2-4, rarely with minute polliniferous anthers. 
Ovary sessile, 2-3-celled, cells 1-2, many ovuled. Capsule loculicidal, cells 
or more seeded. Seeds with a thick hard rugose or pitted testa.—Species 
about 60, tropical and subtropical, chiefly Asiatic. 
Subgen. I. Tricarpellaria ; Clarke. Capsule 3-celled 3-valved. 
wei l. Evanritema. Cells of ovary 2-% -ovuled. Seeds 1-seriate in 
tach cell, 
* Cells of ovary 3-00-ovuled, of capsule 1- 3- or more-seeded (see 
0 4. nudiflorum). 
a. Flowers panicled on a radical or subradical rarely leafy scape. 
L A. &£laucum, Thwaites mss. in Clarke Monogr. 200; leaves large 
rosulate broadly ensiform, scape erect, branched from the base, panicle 
reading lax-fid., bracts small not sheathing, capsule triquetrous, seeds 
Superposed in each cell. 
sory aNconx 5 on the Tinnevelly hills, Beddome. CEYLON, Thwaites (C. P. 
e Root fibrous, Leaves 3-6 by 1-1} in., acuminate, margin crisped scabrid. 
cape and broad panicle 8-12 in.; bracteoles small; panicle widely spreading, 
aches very slender. Stamens 3, anthers subsimilar; staminodes 2. Capsule 
be oblanceolate, acute, Seeds straw-colrd., with a white minutely reticulate 
mis, 
D 4. Scapiflorum, Wight Ic. t. 2073; leaves narrowly ensiform, 
toil t erect, panicle strict elongate, bracts large sheathing, capsule ellip- 
Beng Sonous, seeds 3-6-superposed in each cell. Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. 
Lë? 14; Monogr. 900 t. 4 f.i A. tuberosum, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5207 ; 
da, € Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 255. A. serotinum, Don mss. Commelina scapi- 
"à Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 175. Murdannia tuberosa, Royle Ill. 403, t. 95. 
*scantia aphylla, Heyne mss. 
EMPERATE and TROPICA IMALAYA; from the upper Gangetic plain east- 
Shan pye botan, and westwards P TRAYANCORE and TENASSERIM, CEYLON and the 
Roots of el i i t, finely acuminate. 
8 ap ,CODgated tubers. Leaves 4-10 in., all radical, erect, finely 1 
“ape With the narrow panicle 8-18 in. ; lower bracts long, upper small amplexicaul. 
Padi small, Capsule iin. mucronate. Seeds in a triangular column, angled, 
‘colrd., with a white minutely reticulate and glandular epidermis. 
BE Loureirii, Hance in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1868, 250; leaves 
>» Scape radical 1-2-leaved, panicle narrow, flowers fascicled 
g eathing bracts, sepals glandular-pubescent, capsule elliptic-oblong 
eet A, Seeds 3~5-superposed in each cell Clarke Monogr. 201. A. 
Cyrt Ze Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng.1871, ii. 77; Clarke Comm. & 
Lour, FLU. t. 20. A. spicatum, Wall. Cat. 5217. Commelina tuberosa, 
qa Üochin Ed, Willd. i. 50. | 
li, Gm Wallich, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 5628), &c.—DisrRIB. Siam, Malay 
t of fasc; i 16 by 2-1 in., sub- 
geet ,AScicled elongated tubers. Leaves all radical, 6-16 by , 
> margins smooth or "iliate only. Scape stout and panicle longer than the 
