116 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



as a vegetable. The plant is rather variable in form of leaf etc., 

 according to locality. I have met also with white-flowered forms. 



2. C. attenuata, Koen. Vahl. Enum. II. 168. A tufted creeping 

 plant prostrate. Stems 12 inches long. Leaves narrow linear lanceo- 

 late recurved with a broad base 1 inch long i inch wide or more, sheath 

 short, hairy. Spathes narrow lanceolate recurved an inch long or less, 

 peduncle slender i inch long hairy. Flowers small bright blue on 

 slender pedicels i inch long. Sepals oblong. Petals orbicular. Stam- 

 ens 3, filaments slender, anthers oblong undulate. Capsule subglobose 

 or oblong i inch long. Seed cylindric faintly reticulate channelled 

 along one face, truncate at both ends with an appendage at both ends. 

 Clarke Monogr. 172. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. 372. C. rajmhalensh, 

 Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. B©t. XL 444. Comra. and Cyrt. Beng. t. 7. 



Singapore: Changi (Ridley 3935, 9581), Galang etc. Sandy 

 places near the sea, common. Distrib. India and Ceylon. 



3. C. BENGHALENSIS, 1. sp. PI. 41. Low herb, stems creeping 

 slender a foot long or less hairy or glabrous. Leaves elliptic ovate 

 light green 1 to 3 inches long £ to 1 inch wide pubescent or with scat- 

 tered hairs, petiole i inch long winged. Spathes 1 to 3 turbinate half 

 an inch long green. Flowers smaller than in C. nucliflora. Sepals 

 oblong green as long as the claw of the petals. Petals 2, spathulate 

 cochleate tips rounded, the other ovate hooded much shorter violet 

 bine. Stamens 4, filaments slender violet. Anthers yellow cells 

 divaricate at base. Stvle longer violet. Clarke Comm. and Cyrt. Beng. 

 t. 4. Monogr. 159. i'lassk. Comm. Lnd. 28, 29. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 III. 533. Wight. Ic. t. 2065. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 370. C. 

 nervosa Burn. Fl. Ind. 18, t. 7, f. 3. C. cucullata L. Mantiss 176. C. 

 mollis Jacq. Collect. III. 235 Ic. Bar. t. 293. 



Singapore: Galang (Ridley 9152), Tanglin (3856) ; Malacca : Ayer 

 Moley (Ridley 4597); Malacca Town (Ridley 10775); Sungei Ujong : 

 (Cantley's Coll.). 



A common weed in waste ground, called " Rumput Mayiam " by 

 the natives. Distribution, Tropical Africa and Asia. 



4. C. OBLIQUA, Ham. in Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal p. 45. A stout 

 erect plant with tall stems. Leaves lanceolate acute narrowed at both 

 ends oblique, 6 inches long 1} wido glabrous, sheath broad an inch 

 long strongly ribbed with bristles at the mouth. Spathes numerous 

 crowded in a subsessile head, funnel-shaped pubescent about i inch 

 long. Petals blue inner ones clawed. Capsule ovoid 3 edged nearly i 

 inch long. Seeds elliptic black punctate. Clarke Commel. and Cyrt. 

 Beng. t. 9, 10, 11. Monogr. 178. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 372. 



0. polyspatha Wighl Ic t. 2066. C. maculata and C. striata 

 Edgow. Trans. Linn. Soc. XX. 89. ( '. communis Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. 171. 



