cxxxv. commelinace.t:. 781 



and the other two from Bottler's Herbarium. There is notliing to show that the plant 

 is indigenous to Bombay. The habitat (Penmsular India) embraces a verj wide area. 

 — DisTiUB. Tropical Africa, Abyssinia. 



2. Commelina nudiflora, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 41. Diffuse, 

 nearly glabrous ; root fibrous ; stems 2-3 ft. lougand upwards, branching 

 from the base ; branches prostrate or subscandent, often rooting at the 

 rather distant nodes, the tips ascending. Leaves sessile, lg-3 by |-| in., 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous or puberulous, 

 the sheaths sometimes exceeding | in. long, loose, glabrous, usually with 

 ciliate margins. Peduncles |—| in. long, spreading or erect. 8patlies 

 |-1 J in. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, base rounded 

 or cordate with rounded lobes, glabrous or pubescent. Cymes us ually 

 two, 1- to 3-tlowered ; flowers |-| in. across, the two interior petals 

 obovate with long claws, dark blue, the extei'ior subsessile, orbicular, of 

 a paler blue or nearly white, sometimes subobsolete. Ovary 3-celled, of 

 which two cells are 2-ovulate, the third 1-ovulate. Capsules i in. long, 

 broadly oblong, acuminate, coriaceous, 5-seeded. Seeds oblong-cylindric, 

 tuberculate and reticulate, brown. Fl. B, I. v. 6, p. 369 ; Grrah. Cat. 

 p. 223 ; Clarke, in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 3 (1881) p. 144 ; Trim. PI. 

 Ceyl. v. 4, p. 300 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 524; 

 Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1081 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 51Q.— Comme- 

 lina communis, Walter, PI. Carol. (1788) p. 68 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 252. — 

 Plowers : Dec. Vern. GandoJgi. 



Common everywhere in the Konkan, Deecan, and S. M. Country. — Distrib. 

 Throughout India ; Ceylon, Singapore, and many tropical and subtropical countries. 



3. Commelina salicifolia, Soxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1 (1832) p. 172. 

 Stems slender, decumbent, sometimes rooting, glabrous, with long 

 internodes. Leaves 3-6 by ^-^ in., linear-lanceolate, glabrous or 

 nearly so; sheaths f-l in. long, ciliolate. Spathes 1-2 in. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate, axillary, acute or acuminate, glabrous, base rounded ; pe- 

 duncles 5-l| in. long, slender. Plowers small, polygamous ; branches 

 of the cyme equal, usually 1-2-flowered. Sepals free, ovate, obtuse, the 

 2 inner connate below, larger than the outer. Petals dark blue, the 2 

 larger ovate with undulate margins and long claws, the smaller one 

 broadly ovate, entire, subsessile or with a very short claw. Stamens 3 

 fertile ; one anther large, Innate, the other two smaller, ellipsoid ; 

 staminodes 3, clavate. Capsules \ in. long, quadrate, membranous. 

 Seeds black, powdered with white, smooth, ovoid or subglobose, -1- in. 

 long, appendaged at one end with a whitish membranous appendage. 

 PI. B. I. V. 6, p. 370 ; Clarke, in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 3 (1881) p. 157 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 524; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1082 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 516.— Flowers : Oct.-Dec. 



KoNKAN : Woudrow. S. M. Country : Belgaum, RitcJiic, 751 ! — Distrib. India 

 (Bengal, Assam, Birma, W. Peninsula) ; Java. 



4. Commelina Hasskarlii, Clarice, Comm. 4' Cyrt. Beng. (1874) 

 p. 13, t. 3. Stem much-branched, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes 

 scaberulous. Leaves 1-3 by |-| in., narrowly lanceolate, subacute ; 

 sheaths | in. long, Avith a broad base, ciliate. Spathes |-1 in. long, 

 axillarv, scattered, ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base with rounded 



