]72 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Commelhut. 



as in the former. Carol 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. 



Annual, creeping. Leaves sessile, oblong, about five- 

 nerved. Flowers terminal, solitary, sub-sessile. Petals equal. 



A native of the Moluccas. Compare with Vahl's C. at- 

 tenuata. 



4. C. salicifolia, R. 



Polygamous, creeping. Leaves narrow-lanceolate. Pe- 

 tals three, equal. Spathes from four to six-flowered. Wi- 

 thers dissimilar. Capsules pointed, three-celled, six-seeded. 



Sam. Langulee. 



Beng. Panee-kansh?ra. 



Found with the former in wet places near Calcutta, it is 

 also a native of the Coromandel coast; flowering time the 

 wet season. 



Stems creeping to a great extent, ramous, round, smooth, 

 jointed, very succulents Leaves alternate, sessile on their cy- 

 lindric sheaths, narrow-lanceolar, a little hispid on the upper 

 side and margins, when the finger is drawn backward ; from 

 four to six inches long, and not quite oue inch broad. Sheaths 

 cylindric, striated; mouth ciliate. Spathes leaf-opposed, 

 long-peduncled, semi-cordate, long-pointed. Floicers herma- 

 phrodite, and male; large, of a beautiful deep azure colour, 

 disposed as in the former species, only there are fewer to the 

 common shorter peduncle, and often two on the longer one. 

 Calyx as in the former. Petals three, equal, except that the 

 lower one having a shorter claw is nearly sessile. Nectaries, 

 stamens, and pistilum, as in the former. Capsules oblong, 



