172 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Commelina, 
as in the former. Corol three-petalled ; two of them larger, 
and long-clawed, as in the former species, the third small, 
and sessile, but coloured. Nectary, stamens and pistil as in 
C. communis, only the style is here beautifully spiral. Pe- 
ricarp three-celled, three-valved, with generally two seeds 
in each cell. 
3. C. moluccana. R. : Be ; 
Annual, “creeping. Leaves sessile, oblong, about. five- 
nerved, Flowers terminal, solitary, sub-sessile. Petals equal. 
A native of the Moluccas, Compare with Vahl’s ©,-at- 
tenuata, ‘ 
4,C. salicifolia. R. 
- Polygamous, creeping. Leaves pers each Pe- 
tals three, equal, _ Spathes from four to six-flowered. . An- 
thers dissimilar, Capsules pointed, three-celled, six-seeded. 
Sans, Langulee. 
Beng. Panee-kanshira. 
Found with the former in wet places near Calcutta, it is 
also a native’ of the, Lotemandel coast ; Bometing time - 
wet season. 
Stems creeping to a great extent, sheild reve ait 
jointed, very succulent. Leaves alternate, sessile on their cy- 
lindric sheaths, narrow-lanceolar, a little hispid on the upper 
side and margins, when the finger is drawn backwar 3 from ri 
four to six inches long, and not quite one inch broad. Sheaths — 
cylindric, striated; mouth ciliate. | Spathes leaf-opposed, 
long-peduncled, semi-cordate, long-pointed. Flowers berma- 
phrodite, and male; large, of a beautiful deep azure colour, 
disposed as in the Fee species, only there are fewer to the 
common shorter peduncle, and often two on the longer ones 
Calyx as in the former. Petals three, equal, except that the ¢ 
low pne. pee a  shorker claw is nearly ecasile. ” Ne a ries, 
