CXXXVII. COMMELYNES. 4.09 
either wanting or differently formed from the others. Ovary 
3-celled ; ovules few in each cell; style 1; stigma 1, obtuse, 
capitellate or peltate. Capsule 2-3-celled, 2—3-valved, locu- 
licidal. Seeds often in pairs, albuminous.— Herbs with 
sheathing leaves, nodose stems, and quickly-withering flowers. 
Flowers issuing from folded, spathe-like bracts. 
Petals separate, the 2 lateral on long claws; fila- 
ments glabrous . . 1. COMMELYNA. 
Petals united in a tube by their claws ; ; ‘filaments 
bearded at top . . 4, CYANOTIS. 
Flowers panicled or corymbose, without involucre. _ 
Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; ovules 2or more . . . 2. ANEILEMA. 
Ovary stipitate, 2-celled ; ovules solitary . . . 3. DITHYROCARPUS. 
1. COMMELYNA, Linn. 
Flowers irregular. Outer perianth-segments unequal, un- 
changed, persistent ; the odd one outermost, boat-shaped, the 
2 lateral larger, concave, more or less connate along their outer 
margins ; inner segments marcescent; lateral on long claws, 
roundish; odd one smaller, of different form, sessile or 
shortly clawed, exterior to the lateral. Stamens 6, free; 3 
fertile ; 3 barren, with cruciate-quadrifid anthers ; filaments 
beardless. Style elongate; stigma obtuse. Capsule obliquely 
3-celled ; lateral cells 2-, dorsal cell 1-seeded.—Kunth, Enum. 
iv. p. 35. 
Branching, erect or “‘procumbent plants. Leaves [sheathing, broadly- 
grasslike. Flowers pedicelled, blue or yellow, springing from a folded or 
cucullate, spathe-like bract.—A few Cape species. 
2. ANEILEMA, R. Br. 
Flowers subregular. Outer perianth-segments navicular, 
unchanged, persistent; inner larger, subequal, deciduous. 
Stamens 6, of which 3 2 or 4 are barren; sometimes 4, of 
which 2 are barren. Style elongate ; stigmas simple. Capsule 
regularly 3-eelled ; cells 2- or few-seeded.— Kunth, l.c. p. 64. 
Erect or diffuse, branching herbs. Leaves lanceolate or linear. Pedun- 
cles terminal, corymbose, forked or panicled ; flowers solitary, pedicelled ; 
peduncles 2-bracteolate at base. No spathaceous bracts, by which charac- 
ter these plants are readily known from Commelyna.—Several species at and 
near Natal. 
3. DITHYROCARPUS, Kth. 
Flowers more or less regular. Outer perianth-segments 
free, navicular ; inner larger, persistent. Stamens 6, hypogy- 
nous, all fertile, 8 opposite the outer lobes shorter ; filaments 
beardless. Ovary stipitate, 2-celled; ovules solitary ; style 
