Commelina. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 177 
Root annual.— Stems or branches creeping, envelopedin the sheaths 
of the leaves ; from three to six inches long.— Leaves stem-clasping, 
sheathing linear-cordaté, somewhat ciliate, and waved; sheaths a.. 
little downy.— Flowers terminal, sub-panicled, small, bright blue.— 
Calyx equal, permanent.— Corol of three, roundish, equal petals. 
Nectarial filaments as in the other Indian species, but naked.— Fila- 
ments three, from the middle downwards clothed with hairs, converg- 
ing over the stigma. Anthers blue.— Style shorter than the stamens, 
straight and tapering. apni three-celled, with from three to six- 
seeds in each. 
Obs. Were the style longer, or even spirally bent, I should ave cx con- 
cluded this plant to be Commelina spirata. Mant. 2.p . 176. Burman’ s 
- figure of his C. diffusa. Flor, Ind. tab. 7. f. 2. is so bad that no 
comparison can be made ; they may be the same. 7 
6. C. nudiflora. Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. Willd. 1. 252. 
-— Frequently creeping. Leaves linear, sessile, sheathing. Flowers 
terminal, racemed, diandrous. Petals equal. Capsules three-celled ; 
cells two-seeded. 
Beng. Kanduli. 
Tali-pulli. Rheed. mal. 9. t. 63. 
Tradescantia malabarica. Sp. Pl. 419. 
A native of most of the warmer humid parts of India. Flowering 
time the rainy season. . 
‘Stenis 1 none, but it has many short, creeping, smooth , jointed bran- 
ches, with their flower-bearing extremities sub-erect.— Leaves alter- 
nate, sessile, linear, sheathing, smooth, excepting a few fine hairs about 
the mouths of the sheaths.—Racemes terminal, long-peduncled, co- 
tymbed, bearing on their upper side many small blue flowersin succes- 
sion.— Bractes solitary, one-flowered, concave, caducous.—Calyx ‘Ge 
three-leaved , equal.— Corol of ihree, obovate, equal, blue petals. Neca E 
tarial filaments with a very few, moniliform, blue hairs ; cor 
two, .clavate..— Fi laments three, two. of thein ascending, larg: 
thicker, well clothed with beautiful jointed. blue hairs, Anthe P 
ope pile 
