Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 121 



Hassk. Comm. Ind. 128. Commclina cristata L. in Sp. PI. p. 62. 

 Tradescantia cristata Jacq. Hort. Vindob. 2 p. 64 t. 137. Bot. Mag. t. 

 1435. T. imbricata Koxb. Fl. Ind. 2. 120. T. varja Zoll. Syst. Verz. 

 p. 65. 



Malacca : Pulau Besar (Ridley 1658); Penang : Gardens and in 

 the Quarry (Curtis), Lanka wi (Curtis 2364). Distrib. Tropical Africa 

 and Islands, India and Malaya. In grassy spots not common. 



2. C. BAEBATA, Don. Prodr. 46. Prostrate creeping fleshy herb, 

 stems 12 inches long hairy. Leaves lanceolate oblong or linear lanceo- 

 late covered with long scattered hairs 1 inch long \-\ inch wide. 

 Peduncles 1 or 2 from the terminal leaf axil. Cymes \ to f inch long. 

 Bract long and narrow or short sometimes little longer than the floral 

 bracts. Floral bracts broad rounded on the margin blunt hairy with long 

 hairs. Sepals lanceolate hairy. Petals pale blue. Stamens bearded. 

 Capsule short and broad hairy. Seeds oblong truncate grey, back with 

 a longitudinal furrow. Clarke Commel. and Cvrt. Beng. t. 37, Monogr. 

 248, Hassk. Commel. Ind. 143. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 385. 

 C. nodijiora Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. XL 453. C. nobilis Hassk. I.e. 

 148. Clarke Commel. and Cyrt. Beng. 639. C. glabcrrima Hassk. 

 I.e. 156. Tradescantia barbata Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post 138. T. radicans 

 Royle III. 403. 



Singapore : Changi, Galang (Ridley 4418) ; Pahang : Pekan, Rumpin 

 River ; Penang, (Wallich 8988). Distrib. India, China. 



A very variable plant apparently in India perhaps due to habitat. 

 Here it occurs plentifully in sandy spots, a prostrate fleshy plant. I 

 met with a form on the Rumpin River sand hills tufted erect and 

 slender. 



3. C. CAPITATA, Clarke, Monogr. 243. Procumbent rooting herb, 

 stems slender hairy along one edge, intei'nodes long one inch to 3 long. 

 Leaves oblong lanceolate 1-2 inches long half an inch wide inaequilater- 

 al, edges hairy. Sheaths very short hairy. Heads small axillary and 

 terminal few flowered i inch long. Outer bracts lanceolate narrowed 

 at the base hairy J-i inch long, inner bracts similar but smaller. 

 Flowers light blue. Sepals lanceolate keeled hairy. Capsule oblong 

 obtuse hairy, seed oblong deeply reticulate pitted all over, grey. Tra- 

 descantia capitata Bl. Enum. PI. Jav. 1 p. 6. Hassk. Commel. Ind. p. 

 63. T. crassifolia Hassk. PL Jungh. p. 152. 



Selangor, edges of woods by the Kwala Lumpur Caves (Ridley). 

 Rare. Distrib. Java, Cochin-China, Japan, New Guinea. 



5. Floscopa, Lour. 



Erect or subscandent herbs, stems slender. Leaves lanceolate. 

 Flowers small pink or blue, in terminal or axillary panicles of secund- 

 flowered cymes. Sepals 3 oblong, free. Petals obovate. Stamens 6 



