CXXXV. COMMELINACE^. 791 



blue. Stamens 3 fertile aucl 3 sterile ; tilameuts all connate at the very 

 base, naked. Ovary ovoid ; style -^^ in. long. Capsules jo~^ i'^- lo^gS 

 ellipsoid or subglobose, smooth, shining. Seeds 6-8 in each, cell, pale 

 yellow, 2-seriate, irregularly angular, smooth. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 381 ; 

 Clarke, in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 3 (1881) p. 215; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 525. Aneilema semiteres, Dalz. in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) p. 138 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 254. Diclupspermum 

 jancoides, Wight, Icon. v. 6 (1853) p. 31, t. 2078. Commelina 

 Nimmoniana, Grab. Cat. PI. Bo. (1839) p. 224. — -Flowers : Aug. 



KoNKAN : Balzcll !, Laio ! ; Malabar Hill (Bombay), Graham ; Narel below 

 Matheran, Kanitkar \ Deccan : Mawal near Poena, Woodrow ; between Poona and 

 Karli, t/«t'y«c;HOMi!, 561! Kanaka: Karwar, Woodrotv. — Distrib. India (W. Peuiusula) 

 in rocky places, 



13. Aneilema vaginatum, U. Br. Prod. (1810) p. 271 {in adnot.). 

 Koot fibrous, the fibres stout, almost iiesliy ; stem G-18 in. long, very 

 slender, flaccid, rooting at the lower nodes ; branches suberect, ending 



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in filiform peduncles with distant flowering bracts. Leaves 3-8 by 5- 

 in., linear, acuminate, flat, glabrous or sparsely hairy ; sheaths short, 

 open, ciliate. Flowers small, 1-3 together, fascicled in distant bracts, 

 along the filiform very slender terminations of the branches ; bracts ^| 

 in. long, narrowly oblong, obtuse, sheathing, strongly ribbed ; pedicels 

 |— I in. long, very slender, puberulous, usually twice-joiuted. Sepals 

 |- in. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous or pubescent. Petals orbicular, 

 blue. Stamens 2 perfect, 3-4 sterile ; filaments of the perfect stamens 

 bearded, those of the sterile ones usually naked, shorter than the fertile 

 filaments. Ovary 2-celled ; ceUs 1-ovulate. Capsules i in. in diara., 

 globose, cuspidate, shining, 3-celled ; cells 1-seeded or empty. Seeds 

 3-gonously conic, one eud abruptly truncate, the other narrowed, obtuse, 

 slightly rugose, black. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 381 ; Wight, Icon. t. 2076 ; 

 Clarke, in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 3 (1881) p. 216 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, 

 p. 309 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 525 ; Prain, Beng. 

 PI. p. 1084. Aneilema jj^'^'^iflorum, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 

 (1851) p. 136 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 253.— Flowers : Aug. 



A very distinct species. The panicle is reduced to a long filiform 

 rhachis with very distant bracteate clusters of flowers. 



Konkan: DahcU\, StocJisl, Laivl; Matheran, Woodrow. Kanara: Law I — Distrib. 

 Throughout tropical India in rice-fields and wet places ; Ceylon, China. 



Excluded Species. 



ANEILEMA KOENIGII, Wall. Cat. (1828) .5214. This does not appear to be a 

 Bombay plant. Woodrow includes it in his list of plants without locality. 

 According to the 'Flora of British India' it occurs in S. India to the south of 

 the Konkau and Kanara. I have seen no specimens from Bombay ; there are none 

 in Herb. Kew., and the plant does not seem to have been found by any Bombay 

 botanists. 



3. CYANOTIS, Don. 



Herbs prostrate or creeping. Leaves small. Flowers in axillary and 

 terminal scorpioid cymes, formed of large imbricate, 2-seriate, secuud, 

 foliaceous, falcate bracteoles, the petals and stamens alone exserted 

 (rarely the corolla-tube also exserted); sometimes the flowers in exposed 



