2075. ANEILEMA sECUNDA (R. W.), stems pro- 
cumbent at the base, ascending, glabrous, leaves dis- 
tant, glabrous, sheathing, sessile, linear lanceolate, ta- 
pering to a slender point; sheaths slightly pubescent, 
ciliate: panicles terminal and axillary, long pedun- 
cled: branches racemose, slender, cernuous : flowers 
numerous towards the apex, secund, furnished with a 
large boat-shaped membranous caducous bract: se- 
pals 3, ovato-lanceolate: petals larger, sub-orbicular 
(blue) : stamens 6, two fertile, 3 with effete anthers, 
and the posterior one rudimentary, but with the fila- 
ment bearded: filaments of the 2 fertile stamens 
bearded. Ovary 3-celled, 2 ovules in each: style 
and stigma simple: capsule 3-celled with 1 or 2 seed 
in each. 
Anamallay forests, Belgaum, flowering August aud 
September. 
2075. ANEILEMA PANICULATA (R. W., an Herb. 
Wight in Wall. List, 5216 ?), erect, ramous, glabrous, 
except the ciliate margin of the sheath : leaves succu- 
lent, sheathing, sessile, ovato-lanceolate, blunt pointed, 
margined with a narrow diaphanous purplish edging : 
panicles axillary and terminal, peduncles slender, 
somewhat dichotomously branched: flowers pedicelled, 
at first aggregated on the points of the branches, but 
opening in succession, sepals lanceolate about half the 
size of the obovate obtuse petals: fertile filaments 
bearded about twice the length of the nearly beard- 
less sterile ones, capsule 3-celled with 3-5 superposed 
angular seed in each. 
Courtallum, Bolamputty, Neilgherries, flowering 
during the rainy season, very like in habit and appear- 
ance Dichespermum lanceolatum, but at once distin- 
guished by the capsule. 
2076. ANEILEMA VAGINATA (R. B., Wall. List 
5212 B!), procumbent, diffuse, rooting at the joints, 
glabrous: leaves sheathing at the base, linear: pe- 
duncles lateral and terminal, enclosed in a sheath, 1- 
flowered ; but sometimes 3 flowers from one common 
sheath : sepals lanceolate : petals orbieular, 2 stamens 
fertile, 4 sterile antherless, all the filaments glabrous : 
capsule orbicular, 3-celled ; cells one-seeded: oval 
compressed, somewhat rugous on the margin, depress- 
ed on the back. 
The drawing is taken from a specimen named as 
above, received from Dr. Wallich, hence is certainly 
his plant. Kunth quotes it with a doubt as to its 
being Brown's species which is said to have bearded 
filaments, in this specimen they are beardless. 
2076. ANEILEMA TERMINALIS (R. W.), procum- 
bent at the base, afterwards ascending : leaves sword- 
shaped, glabrous: sheath short, loose, ciliate on the 
margin : floriferous branches few from the upper axils, 
bearing on the apex a fascicle of close-set short pe- 
duncled flowers : sepals ovate obtuse, petals orbicular: 
stamens 2 fertile, 4 sterile: filaments of the perfect 
stamens bearded : capsule 3-celled with 2 seed in each 
attached to the middle of the axis (ascending and de- 
scending) seed roughish, embryo lateral. 
Neilgherries. This seems very distinct from all 
the described species, but accords both in habit and 
strueture of the flowers with the preceding, from 
which, however, it is a widely distinct species. The 
relative size of the sepals and petals cannot be relied 
on in these figures, the drawing of the open flower 
being in both taken from unopened buds. 
2077. ANEILEMA NANA (Kunth, Commelyna nana, 
Roxb.), ereeping: leaves cordato-lanceolate, stem- 
clasping: flowers terminal, somewhat panicled, petals _ 
equal: capsule 3-celled, many-seeded. Roxb. Cells 
3-5-seeded, seed angular or somewhat cylindrical, 
truncated. 
Courtallum, Malabar, Coimbatore, in low wet soil. 
This species, like allcommon and widely distributed 
plants, presents considerable variations in form, but 
they generally correspond in the outline, however much 
they may vary in size. It greatly resembles, except 
in habit, A. paniculata, but differs in the sterile sta- 
mens being beardless, while they are bearded in the 
other. The capsule in both is much alike, the cells 
containing from 3 to 5 seed. 
2077. ANEILEMA PAUCIFLORA (R. W.), creeping, 
glabrous, except a line of hairs decurrent from the 
sheaths: leaves sheathing, cordato-ovate, obtuse, 
slightly waved on the margin, stem-clasping: flowers 
axillary, solitary or paired, opening in succession, 
longish peduncled, sepals linear obtuse, petals obovate, 
exceeding the sepals, filaments all glabrous, fertile 
stamens about twice the length of the sterile ones, 
capsule oblong pointed, cells about 5-seeded in a 
single row. 
Quilon, Paulghaut, &c., in moist soil, flowering in 
October. This is a very distinct species, not likely 
to be mistaken for any other. 
Dicu@srermum. (R. W.) 
Gen. CHAR. Perianth 6-parted, 3 exterior lobes 
calycine, 3 interior petaloid. Stamens 6 (filaments 
bearded or glabrous), 3 calycine fertile, 3 petaline 
sterile. Ovary 3-celled; style simple, stigma capi- 
tate. Capsule 3-valved, 3-celled ; valves septiferous: 
2 rows of superposed seed in each cell. Seed angu- 
lar, smooth. Embryo depressed in the middle of the 
back.—Small herbaceous erect or procumbent ramous 
plants. Leaves scarcely sheathing. Inflorescence 
panicled, terminal; or axillary andlateral. Flowers 
blue, seed when dry brownish. 
In addition to the three species represented in the 
accompanying plate, I have what seems to be 4 
others, two referable to the lanceolatum form, and two 
the juncoides. It is possible these may be varieties 
only, but if so, they are very distinct ones. 
2078. DICHÆSPERMUM LANCEOLATUM (R. W.), 
- procumbent at the base, rooting, afterwards erect, 
glabrous: leaves linear lanceolate bluntish : panicles 
terminal, racemose, branches flexuose: pedicels from 
the axils of loose cucullate bracts: all the filaments 
hairy near the base: capsule oblong, three-celled, 
each cell containing about 20 seed in two rows. 
Malabar, about Quilon, in marshy soil. 
2078. DIicHæsPERMUM JUNCOIDES (R. W.), erect, 
ramous; leaves linear subulate, glabrous, panicles few- 
flowered, axillary and terminal: filaments all glab- 
rous, capsule oval obtuse, 3-celled : cells 6-8۰866060, 
in 2 rows. 
Courtallum, Quilon. 
This species reminds one of some of the more 
diminutive forms of Juncus lampocarpus or uligruo- 
sus, hence the name. 
2078. DicmasrERMUM REPENS (R. W.), procum- 
bent, rooting at the joints, glabrous except a decur- 
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