Aneilema. ] CLX. COMMELINACEEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 383 
in Peters. Mossamb. Bot. ii. 529, Flora, 1863,389. Piletocarpus protensus, 
Hassk, Comm. Ind. 15. 
The Tropica, Eastern HIMALAYA and the KHASIA HinLs.; from Nepal to 
Bhotan. TRAVANCORE, Wight. Cxxton, Walker, &c.—DisrR1B. Malay Islands. 
Subfruticose 2-3 ft. high. Leaves 3-6 by 2-12 in., sessile, sheaths loose, viscid 
or hispid; base narrowed or rounded. Panicle very lax and spreading with few 
flowers at the tips of the branches; bracts sheathing obliquely truncate ; flowers 
small white. Sepals reflexed in fruit. Capsule 3 in. diam., style long, persistent. 
Seeds plano-convex, glaucous, black. 
EXOLUDED SPECIES. . IN 
A, ZQUINOCTIALE, Kunth Enum. iv. 72; Clarke Monog. 221. Amelina Wallichii, 
rke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. 6, 26, is an African species of which the locality was 
tot determined when it was included in “ Comm. & Cyrt. Beng.”’ 
4 FORRESTIA, A. Rich. 
Erect herbs ; stem simple, creeping and rooting below. Leaves broad, 
sheaths tubular persistent after the fall of the blade. Flowers bracteate, 
Sessile, in. crowded subsessile - axillary panicles. Sepals subequal. 
tals subequal. Stamens 6, all perfect, filaments bearded ; anthers ovoid. 
ary 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled or the dorsal l-ovuled. Capsule subglobose, 
or ellipsoid, or oblong, 3-valved, loculicidal. Seeds 1-2 superposed in each 
cell, o long, rugose.—Species 7, Hast Asiatic and New Guinea, and one 
can, 
The first three speci f the F. hispida, A. Rich (Sert. 
si pecies may prove to be forms of the F. hispida, A. 
Astrolab, u. t. 1), a native of New Guinea and Formosa, J. D. H. 
en, E mollis, Hassk. in Flora, 1864, 68; Commel. Ind. 84; hirsute, 
Krieg oblanceolate sparsely hairy above villous beneath, capsule oblong or 
a3 sud about equalling the rusty hispidly villous sepals. Clarke Monogr. 
Hap "pelia mollissima, Blume Enum. 3. 7. Amischotolype mollissima, 
dest, in, Flora, 1 863, 392, 
"A LABAR, J. Anderson, SINGAPORE, Walker. Maracca, Griffith (Kew 
81,1485), Maingay (K. d. 1712).—DisrRre. Sumatra, Java. qnod 
Leay em 9-4 ft, as thick as the thumb, glabrous hairy or shaggily hispid. 
hirsute 6-18 by 2-3 in., subpetioled, acute, base acute; sheaths glabrous op 
ong. ry Panicle a sessile dense-fld. globose head, 2-3 in. diam. Capsule $ in. 
& rusty villous, Seeds subellipsoid, obscurely rugose. 
d vk Griffithii, Clarke Monogr. 236; leaves oblong-lanceolate m 
ain Y hairy on both surfaces, capsule elliptic-oblong subacute fulvously 
y much longer than the sepals. 
Matacca, Griffith, Maingay, Hulett. 
tem stout, glabrate. Leaves 7 by 2} in., shortly acuminate ; petiole shaggy ; 
sh . y 
«i. glabrous, mouth villous. Sepals à in., oblong, sparsely hairy. Capsule 
1g In, long, 5 
3. TF. marginata, Hassk. in Flora, 1864, 630; Commelin. Ind. 90; 
leaves obovate- or elliptic-lanceolate glabrous or margins villously ciliate, 
Bowe ellipsoid longer than the sepals. Clarke Monogr. 237. F. hispida, 
War 1. 5425 (not of A. Rich). Campelia marginata, Blume Enum. i. 
1843 all. Cat, 8977 A, B. Amischotolypa marginata, Hassk. in Flora, 
Ca 39 -—Tradescantia sp., Grif. Notul. ii. 235.  Pollia purpurea, 
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