174 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA,” Commelina, 
ed branches, with their flower-bearing extremities sub-erect. 
Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, sheathing, smooth, excepting 
a few fine hairs about the mouths of the sheath, Racemes — 
terminal, long-peduncled, corymbed, bearing on their upper 
side many small blue flowers in succession. Bractes solita- 
ry, one-flowered, concave, caducous, Calyx three-leaved, 
equal. Corol of three, obovate, equal, blue petals. Nectari- 
al filaments with a very few, moniliform, blue hairs ; corpus- 
cles two, clavate. Filaments three, two of them ascending, 
larger, and thicker, well clothed with beautiful jointed blue 
hairs, Anthers blue, oval, the third filament sterile, Style 
short, ascending. Capsules three-celled, with two scabrous 
— in —_ ; iy beat 4 ; 
7. C. cespitosa, R. m4 | 
Polygamous, creeping. Ligeanieiiatiniis Spathe iebeiss 
peduncled, few-flowered ; petals nearly equal. oo 
three-celled, with one or two seeds in each, 
_ A native of Chittagong, from thence.the plants were sent 
‘to the Botanic garden by Mr, W. ——— pat is in Bloee 
som most part of the year. . 
» Stéms and branches numerous, slender, ical S ioedle : 
creeping close’ over a space of some feet and striking deep’ 
root at the joints. | Leaves alternate ; sessile on their'smooth’ 
cylindric sheaths, ovate-lanceolate, the upper ones i narstinte! 
er and longer; all are entire, and smooth on both sides. 
“Sheaths, besides the usual leaf-bearing one, there isa second 
‘or inner annular one wherever there is a peduncle, Pedun- 
cles solitary, leaf-opposed, about an inch long, round,.and 
smooth. Spathe cordate, or rather semi-cordate, in their na- 
tural folded state, each embracing two common pedicels; the 
‘superior one bearing two, ‘three, or four, pedicelled male 
flowers; and the lower about as many hermaphrodite ones; 
all eesihink?:i in succession. Calyx of three, equal, obovate, 
concave, pele. blue, .pelluckd te fetal three; heya 
