.Aneilema.'] 



Co7nmelinacece. 



105 



nearly glabrous, coriaceous, few-veined, sheath 1-3 in., strongly 

 veined, mouth glabrous ; spathes 2-3 in. long, very long- 

 peduncled, narrowly ovate - lanceolate, caudate - acuminate, 

 glabrous without, hairy within, striate, base deeply cordate, 

 lobes rounded, ped. i-ih in.; larger pets. J in. diam., orbicular, 



• claw rather short ; ov. 3-celled, cells i-ovuled ; capsule ^ in. 

 long, 3-celled, 3-seeded, or with the dorsal cell empty; seeds 

 4 in. long, oblong, sub-plano-convex, pale brown, smooth, testa 

 thickened and white at one or at both ends. 



Dry region ; rather rare. Uva Prov. Fl. December ; bright blue. 

 Also in N. Bengal, Sikkim, and Sylhet. 



3. AJXEIImHT/LA, Br. 



Simple or branched, erect or decumbent herbs, with 

 ■fibrous or rarely tuberous roots; 1. usually narrow and sessile, 

 rarely broader and petioled ; fl. cymose, in open axillary and 

 terminal panicles, bracteate and bracteolate, bracts not com- 

 plicate or cucullate ; sep. 3, free, membranous, persistent, 

 outer, or all concave, 2 inner unilateral ; pet. 3, free, subequal, 

 sessile, or shortly clawed, deciduous or marcescent ; stam. 

 2 or 3 with perfect anth., and 2-4 (rarely o) reduced to 

 staminodes with imperfect anth., fil. of all slender, bearded or 

 not ; ov. sessile, 2-3-celled, cells i-many-ovuled, style slender, 

 naked or bearded, stigma minute ; capsule 2-3-celled, loculi- 



• cidally 2-3-valved, cells i-many-seeded ; seeds various, testa 



thick, smooth, rugose, or foveolate, embryo at one end of the 



seed. — Sp. about 60; 28 in Fl B. Lid. 



Cells of ov. 3- many-ovuled. 



Scapigerous, 1. all radical i. A. glaucum. 



Stem leafy. 



Root of clavate fleshy fibres . . . . 2. A. esculentum. 

 Root of slender fibres. 



Panicle with long spreading branches . . 3. A. zeylanicum. 

 Panicle small, branches short. 

 Seeds black 

 Seeds pale 



Cells of ov. 2-ovuled. 



Stem decumbent, 1. 2-5 in 

 Stem tall, erect, 1. 6-1 J5 in. 

 ■Cells of ov. i-ovuled. 



L.-sheath very short or o 

 L.-sheath long. 

 Capsule glabrous 

 Capsule pubescent . 



I. A. g'laucum, Thw. ex Clarke^ Monogr. 200 (1881). 

 Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 95. C. P. 3977. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 375. 

 PART IV. X 



4. A. DIMORPHUM. 



5. A. SPIRATUM. 



6. A. NUDIFLORUM, 



7. A. GIGANTEUM. 



8. A. VAGINATUM. 



9. A. MONTANUM. 

 10. A. PROTENSUM 



