376 OLX. COMMELINACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Anetlema. 
leaves; upper bracts truncate, pedicels viscid. Petals blue. Stamens 2 fertile; 
staminodes 4, all bearded. Capsule X in. acuminate. Seeds yellow brown, pitted. 
b. Flowering stem leafy, flowers corymbose or panicled. 
4. A. Thomsoni, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xv. 121; Monogr. 
202, t. 4, f. 2; stout, leaves petioled broadly lanceolate or ensiform caudate- 
acuminate with large bearded sheaths, upper bracts lanceolate caducous 
capsule elongate narrowly oblong acuminate and beaked, cells 5-9-see at 
seeds smooth. Aclisia? Thomsoni, Clarke Comm. & Curt. Beng. t. 1L 
Dichoespermum giganteum, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 42.—Aneilema, sp. ^^» 
Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. 
EASTERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim, alt, 5-8000, J. D. H., &c. Bhotan, Griffith. 
Naca Hırs, alt. 7000 ft., Clarke. nni- 
Stem 1-2 ft. erect. Leaves 6-10 by 2-3 in., glabrous or scaberulous, pe in 
nerved above the base. Panicle 3-6 in., glabrous, branches spreading We e nie 
fruit, bracts caudate. Sepals glabrous. Petals purple. Stamens 3 forsi e, lin. 
lateral; staminodes 3, sometimes polleniferous, filaments naked. Caps" i 
Seeds shortly cylindric, black, with white powder. 
9. A. divergens, Clarke Comm. & Oyrt. Beng. t. 16; Monogr: we? 
stem tall, leaves ensiform, sheaths bearded, panicle erect, upper mt acute 
opposite or subwhorled, bracts ovate persistent, capsule ellipsol Journ. 
at both ends, cells 3-5-seeded. A. herbaceum B. divergens, Clarke Une 
Linn. Soc. xi. 448. A. longifolium, Wall. Cat. 5213 A, B. A. scap 
florum, Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. 
TROPICAL and SUB-TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Chamba, alt. 6000. ft., Genie 
eastwards to Sikkim.  KHaAsrA  Hrirrs, alt. 4-5000 ft. UPPER 
Anderson. 1.2 in., erect, 
Root of elongate tubers. Stem 2-3 ft., leafy. Leaves 6-12 by 3-3 tent. 
upper gradually smaller, acuminate. Panicle erect, narrow, bracts ovate, H nearly 
Petals blue. Stamens 3 fertile, staminodes 3, filaments all bearded. Capsu 
3 in. subtrigonous. Seeds yellow, 
6. A. Hookeri, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 171; Monogr. 2 
stem tall stout, leaves ensiform base broad or subcordate, tomous. 
bearded, panicle erect branches slender spreading repeatedly dichoto 
Kuasta Hiris, alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. and T. T. : nicle. 
Distinguished from A. divergens by the broader leaf bases and spreading p^ 
Stem 6-12 in., leafy to the top. 
7. A. zeylanicum, Clarke Monogr. 204; leaves narrrowly oblong 
narrowed at both ends glabrous or pubescent, branches of panicle sp cells 
ing alternate, branches flexuous, bracts minute, capsule subgloberm Gites 
3—o-seeded, seeds slightly pitted. A. montanum, & protensum, The 
Enum. 322. A. dimorphum, Tw. l. c. non Dalz. 
CEYLON, common up to 3000 ft. . 
Roots fibrous. Stem 6-12 in., often branched from the base, branches Ki 
Leaves 1-3 by 3-1 in., sheaths bearded at the mouth. Panicle glabrous, psule 
glabrous, hardly sheathing, persistent. Stamens 3 fertile ; staminodes 2-3. 
ZA in, obtuse, concave, mucronate. Seeds brown, with white 
Var. B. longiscapa, Clarke, 1. c. ; capsule } in.—Courtalam, Wight. 
e 
8. A. lineolatum, Kunth Enum. iv. 69; stem stout, Eye 
narrowly oblong or ensiform acuminate, margins white, panicle g 
a 
powder.— 
