Commelina. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 175 
sub-sessile, all of a most beautiful light blue colour, Vecta- * 
ries three, erect, on the upper side opposite to the stamens. 
Filaments three, equal, ascending. Anthers, the middle one 
larger and sagittate. Germ ovate, (in the male flowers want- 
ing.) Style ascending, as long as the stamens, Stigma in- 
_ curved, simple. Capsules oblong, three-celled, with one or 
two seeds in each, 
8. . ace fat R. 
Root perennial, Racemes radical, erect, with alternate, ma- 
ny-flowered spathes, Petals equal. Leaves in a tuft, ensiform, 
Beng. Kurelli. 
A native of Hindoostan and introduced into the Botanic: 
garden by Colonel Hardwicke, where it blossoms in March 
and April, at which time the plant is: destitute of leaves, 
nothing being seen but the racemes ornamented with large 
lively blue flowers round the apex. ... 
Root perennial, composed of several, smooth, elongated 
tubers, with a few filiform radicles, Stems none, except the 
sheathing bases of the leaves which appear a month or two 
after the flowers; these are ensiform, waved, acute, smooth, 
and marked with several straight veins; length from four to 
eight inches, breadth one. Racemes radical, erect, straight, 
smooth, invested at each of the remote two or three joints, 
with a small, solitary sheath ; these sheaths towards the top are 
more approximated, each of them there embracing the inser- 
tion, of a branchlet which bears several pedicelled. flowers, 
Calyx. the three leaflets thereof broad-layceolate, and consi-, 
derably shorter than the corol, Petals equal, round, concave. 
Nectaries alternate with the stamens, hairy. Filaments three, 
alternate with the petals, longer than the filaments of thenec- _ 
taries, anal ie, thean bales Ne Se Ne Anthers Dine. 
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