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Commelina, — TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 171 
form head. Capsules two or three-celled. Seeds one or more, 
Lmbryo simple, and furnished with a perisperm. | 
1. C. communis. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd, 1. 249. 
~ Polygamous, creeping. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, smooth ; 
spathes many-flowered. Petals unequal. Anthers dissimi- 
lar. Capsules tricoccous. : 
Beng. Juta-kanshira. 
Ephemerum dipetalum, Kempf. amen. p. 888. t. 889. 
This species is common over the low moist parts of India; 
flowering time the rainy season chiefly. 
Root fibrous, Stems numerous, creeping, dichotomous, 
jointed, round, smooth ; length very various. Leaves alter- 
nate, sessile on febular: vaginated sheaths, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute; margins waved ; smooth on both sides, with delicate, 
parallel veins running Jengthways on the under side; from 
two to four inches long; mouths of the sheathing petioles a 
little ciliate. Spathes terminal, or sub-fasicled, cece 
a Us pba sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 250. 
Polygindias creeping. Leaves cordate. Shintlee thrée- 
flowered. Petals unequal. Anthers dissimilar. Capsules 
three-celled, six-seeded. 
_Ephemerum bengafense, &c. Pluck. 1. 27. f.3. 
Beng. Kanshira, also Kanuraka. 
‘Like the last described, this species is a native 6h wet ras 
over Bengal, but much scarcer and smaller ; flowering time 
the same. | 
_ Stems creeping, dichotomous, jointed, hairy. Leaves 4 : 
ternate, petioled, cordate, nervous, a little hairy, about an 
inch long and three-fourths of an inch broad. Pet es 
| shicathing, hairy, and ciliate. i ee and axillary, 
cled male one, Flowers small, bright blue colour. Calyx 
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