388 COMMELINACEA, 
SoutH Mexico, Santa Rosa de la Sierra and Los Joares at about 8000 feet (Humboldt 
& Bonpland), Zimapan (Coulter, 1598, 1599, 1601). Hb. Kew. 
8. stricta, C. B. Clarke, 1. c.; Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. p- 388 (species) ; Reichb. 
Ic. Bot. Exot. ii. p. 17, t. 144. 
SourH Mexico, without locality (Graham, 352; Uhde), San Nicolas, near the city of 
Mexico (Bourgeau, 1022, pro parte). Hb. Kew. 
y. clandestina, C. B. Clarke, 1. c.; Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 46 (species). 
Mexico? Cultivated specimens in Kew herbarium. 
8. Commelina leiandra, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. iii. p. 150, 
non Benth. 
Tradescantia leiandra (errore biandra), Torr. Bot. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv. p. 224. 
Nort Mexico, in mountains bordering on Texas (Wright, 700 partim). Hb. Kew. 
S. Watson (Proc. Am. Acad. xviii. p. 167) states that the specimens in the Gray 
herbarium (Harvard) of Wright’s 700 belong to Commelina dianthifolia and Trade- 
scantia leiandra, Torr., which is a true Tradescantia. 
9. Commelina monticola, Seub. in Mart. Fl. Bras. iii. 1, p. 264 ; C. B. Clarke 
in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. iii. p. 162. 
B. vestita, C. B. Clarke, 1. c.; Seub. 1. c. (species). 
Costa Rica (Hoffmann).—Cotompia to Perv and Brazi. 
10. Commelina pallida, Willd. Hort. Berol. ii. p. 87, t. 87, non Schl.; C. B. 
Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. iii. p. 151. 
Commelina rubens, Red. Lil. vii. t. 367. 
Commelina decumbens, E. Meyer in Presl, Reliq. Heenk. i. p. 186? 
Sour Mexico, Zacoalco, near Guadalupe, valley of Mexico (Bourgeau, 648, 738), 
without locality (Aschenborn). Hb. Kew. 
Var. parviflora, C. B. Clarke 1. c. (Pavon MS., species, nec Link). 
Mexico, without locality (Pavon; Uhde, 184). 
11. Commelina quitensis, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 258; C. B. Clarke in DC. 
Monogr. Phanerog. iii. p. 156. 
y: cardiosepala, C. B. Clarke, 1. c.; Kunze in Linnea, xx. p. 9 (species). 
SoutH Mexico, valley of Mexico (Schmitz), Chapultepec (Bilimek, 438); Costa Rica 
(Hoffmann). Hb. Kew. 
The forms « and B are from Peru and Bolivia. 
12. Commelina rosea, Schl. Ind. Sem. Hort. Halens. 1838, p. 7, et 1839, p. 9; 
C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. iii. p. 193. 
MEXIco, 
A doubtful plant ;. perhaps not a species of Commelina. 
