380 CLX. COMMELINACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) [Aneilema. 
Petals blue. Staminodes with glabrous or bearded filaments, Capsule 3 in, long, 
mucronate, valves hard polished. 
Sect. II. Dicuasrermum. Cells of ovary 4-20-ovuled. Seeds 2-seriate 
in each cell. 
* Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, pedicels jointed in the middle. 
18. A. Hamiltonianum, Wall. Cat. 5222; stem creeping rooting, 
leaves linear-oblong flat glabrate, pedicels axillary and terminal fruiting 
hardly exserted, capsule linear-oblong, seeds scabrid or flocculent biseriate. 
Clarke Monogr. 213. Dichespermum Blumei, Hassk. Comm. Ind. A: 
Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 27. Tradescantia terminalis, Blume 
Enum. i. 6. Callisia orientalis, Herb. Ham. 
UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN to ASSAM, in marshes; Chota Nagpore, Clarke.— 
DisTRIB. Java. 
Stem 6-12 in., stout, sparingly branched. Leaves 14-2 in., sessile, acute or eg 
acute, base cuneate. Peduncle 1-4 in., rigid. Petals white or rosy. Filamen 
all naked. Capsule 4-4 iu., acute. Seeds about 16 in each cell. 
Var. minor, Clarke l. c. 214; stems shorter, seeds about 30 in each cell, nesly 
smooth.—Dichæspermum repens, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 28 (not of WigM). 
—Assam, Hamilton, 
19. A. ochraceum, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1891, 135; stem 
short erect or decumbent, leaves small flat oblong or ovate-oblong oben 
or acute, base cordate, pedicels axillary fruiting exserted, capsule bro d 
oblong, seeds angular rugose biseriate. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 253 ; So 
Monogr. 214, t. 4, f. 3. Dichæspermum repens, Wight Ic. t. 2078 (no 
Hassk.). D. ochraceum, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 41. aih 
H Ko Deccan PENINSULA; from the Concan southwards. TRNASSERIM, Griffith 
elfer. 
Stem 4-8 in., rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves $-4 by 3-4 in., glabrous, ba 
nearly so, bases subamplexicaul. Pedicels 4-} in., slender. Sepals na in. 
Petals yellow. Stamens and staminodes 3 each, filaments naked. Capsule 3 as 
long. Seeds 7-8 in each cell, pale yellow.—Dalzell describes the filamen 
bearded in the Journal of Botany, but not in the Bombay Flora. . litary 
Var. crocea, Clarke Monogr. 214; aquatic, leaves ovate subacute, pedicel e iii. 
or 2-nate, sepals densely pubescent, capsule narrower. A. croceum, Griff. 4° " 8. 
235. A. pilosum, Wall. Cat. 5219. A. ochraceum, var. Griffithii, Kurz tn Journ. 
Soc. 1870, ii. 80. —Arracan, Burma and the Andaman Islands. 
20. A. lanuginosum, Wall. (at. 5221; hirsute or glabrate, stem 
suberect, leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate acuminate, pedicels iy- 
serted, flowers large, filaments bearded, capsule oblong acute m 
seeded, seeds nearly smooth. Clarke Monogr. 214. Commelina lanuginosa, 
Heyne mss. 
: : istricts 
The DECCAN PENINSULA; from the Concan southwards, in hilly distrie™ 
ascending the Nilghiris to 6000 ft. 2} in, 
, Roots of thickened fibres. Stem 6-16 in., stout, branched. Leaves Se an 
rigid, deeply grooved when dry, acuminate, strongly striate, usually compren epals 
recurved, base broad, margins waved. Pedicels bracteolate at the Jom Seeds 
straw-colrd. Petals yellow, blue when dry. Capsule } in., or more 
angular. 
** Flowers panicled, 
