176 - TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA: Commelina, 
3. C. molucca na. R è - 
. Annual, creeping. Ius sessile, ida about f ve-nerved. Flow- 
ers terminal, solitary, sub-sessile. Petals equal. 
A native of the Moluccas. ore with Vahl’s. C. altenuatas 
4. C. salicifoBa: R. 
“Polygamous, creeping. Leaves narrow-lanceolate. Petals three, 
equal. Spathes from four to six-flowered. Anthers dissimilar. Cap- 
sules pointed, three-celled, six-seeded. 2 
Sans. qa sat, Langulee. eos 
- Beng. Panee-kansh?ra. - : 
Found with the former in wet places near Calcutta, it is also: a 
native of the Coromandel Coast : ; lowering time the wet season. © 
Stems creeping to a great extent, ramous, round, smooth, jointed, 
very succulent.— Leaves alternate, sessile on their cylindric sheaths, 
narrow-lanceolar, a little hispid on the upper side and margins, 
_ when the finger i is drawn backward ; from four to six inches long, and 
: not quite one inch broad. dibus cylindric, striated ; it ci- 
liate.—Spathes leaf-opposed, long-peduncled, semi-cordate, long- 
pointed.— Flowers hermaphrodite, and male: ; large, ofa beautiful deep 
azure colour, disposed as in the former species, only there are few- 
er to the common shorter peduncle, and often two on the longer one. 
—Calyr as in the former.— Petals three, equal, except that the low- ~ 
er one having a shorter claw is nearly sessile. — Nectaries, stamens, 
: and pistilum, as in the former — Capsules oblong, pointed, three-cel~ ; 
led, three-valved, with two seeds i in — Cattle are. fond of this a 
apa : 
S. c: nana. R. ; : ie 
Creeping. Leaves die dint iced stem-clasping. - Flowers 
deii sub-panicled. Petals = Capsules three-celled, many- 
A native of wet plates a over er Indi i it appears during the riy snd i 
cold season, 
