26 CXLIII. COMMELINACE (CLARKE). | Pollia. 
Tribe I. Polliece.— Fruit indehiscent. Inflorescence 
a panicle ; no spathaceous bracts. 
Fruit crustaceous. Margin of leaves nearly glabrous. 1. POLLia. 
Fruit succulent, Margin of leaves brown-silky . 2. PALISOTA. 
Tribe II. Commelineve.— Capsule 2-3-valved. Fer- 
tile stamens 3-2. 
Racemes 2—1, enclosed or half-enclosed within a spathe- 
like folded bract. 
Spathes scattered or clustered . . 8. COMMELINA. 
Spathes on the elongate branches of the panicle . 4. PoLysPaTHA. 
Inflorescence various; without conspicuous folded 
bracts. 
Sepals small, obtuse 3 “ C . 5. ANEILEMA. 
Sepals 4 in. long, lanceolate, acute : = . 6, ANTHERICOPSIS. 
Tribe III. Tradescantieve.— Capsule 2-3-valved. 
Fertile stamens 6-5: 
Capsule 3-celled. 
Seeds 4-10 in each cell, _ Panicle loose. . 7%. BUFORRESTIA. 
Seeds 2-1 in each cell. Cymes often dense. 
Peduncle perforating the base of the leaf- 
sheath . . 8. FoRRESTIA. 
Peduncle not per forating the leaf-sheath . 9. CYANOTIS. 
Capsule 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell : . 10. FLoscopa. 
1, POLLIA, Thunb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 846. 
Sepals 3. Petals 3, small, obovate, white or pale rose. Stamens 6 
subequal, or 3 and 3 staminodes; filaments without hairs. Ovary 
ovoid ; cells 3, equal or the dorsal smaller, 5—10-ovuled (in the African 
species). Capsule globose or ellipsoid, indehiscent ; pericarp crustaceous, 
ultimately sbining blue or lead-coloured ; seeds 5-10 in each cell, flat- 
tened trapezoid.—Stem often rooting at the base. Leaves lanceolate or 
obovate-lanceolate, approximate towards the top of the stem; not 
densely brown-silky on the lower surface near the margin. Panicle 
terminal, either loose, or denee short-ovoid. Bracts within the panicle 
small, 
Species 14, scattered in the warmer parts of the Old World, 
Fertile stamens 6; panicle loose . x : <2 eh MANNS. 
Fertile stamens-3; head dense. ; : . 2. P. condensata. 
1. P. Mannii, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 124. Nearly 
glabrous. Stems 1-2 ft. long, slender, trailing or suberect, rooting at 
the base. Leaves 4 by 1 in., broadly lanceolate, acuminate at either 
end ; pseudo- petiole ai in. long. Panicle 2 by 14 in., 12-18-flowered, 
loose ; bracts up to 4 in. long, lanceolate. Stamena 6 fertile, subequal. 
Capsule 1 1 by 4 in. 24- seeded.— Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v.421; 
Hua in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xli. p. 1. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons ; Yaunde, 2700 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 409! 
Lower Guinea. Isle of St. Thomas: 2000 ft., Mann, 1098! at Angolares, 
