276 COMMELINACEA. |. ANEILEMA. 
Panicles ih ap ua leafy stems; — 
root fibrous; stem slender; leaves 
sessile, small, oblong, auricled ; pani- 
cle small, leafy below ; ‘ . 2. A. spiratum. 
Cells of ovary with 2 ovules, of capsule 
usually 2-seeded ; panicles subterminal 
rarely saa ; leaves linear or 
lanceolate : : ‘ . 3 A. nudiflorum. 
Seeds 2-seriate (16 or more in each cell) ; 
pedicels axillary or terminal; stem stout, 
sparingly branched, creeping and rooting 
at the nodes, leafy ; leaves linear-oblong . 4. A. Hamilion- 
tanum. 
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Cells of ovary l-ovuled, those of capsule 1- 
seeded ; pedicels 1-3 in the axils of distant 
lanceolate bracts ; stem slender, decumbent 
and rooting at the lower nodes ; leaves long, 
linear ; roots fibrous % ; WG Os vaginatum. 
1. A. scapifloruam, Wight Ic. t. 2075 ; F. B. 1. vi 375 ; Clarke in 
DC. Mon. ivi, 207 ; Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. Pl. 1084 ; Cooke Fl. 
Bomb. ti, 786. reread scapiflora, Roxb. Fi. Ind. i, 175, Mur- 
dannia tuberosa Royle Ill. 403, t. 95.—Vern. Siyah musli (Hind. ). 
A tufted herb, with elongate fusiform tubers. Leaves all radical, erect, 
4-8 in. long, narrowly ensiform, finely acuminate andslightly narrowed 
to the base. Flowers in erect elongate panicles on terminal leafless 
scapes ; scape with panicle 8-18 in. long; sheaths on scape below 
the panicle #?-21} in. embracing the scape, finely acuminate with 
an oblique mouth ; upper bracts amplexicaul, often spotted. Sepals 
¢ in. long, elliptic-oblong, subacute, purple-green. Petals blue, 2 
in. long, obovate. Stamens 3, perfect, all bearded with blue hairs. 
Capsule + in. long, obovoid. Seeds 5 or 6 in each cell, superposed, 
sharply 3-gonous. 
Siwalik range, on the Mohand Pass and in Sub-Himalayan tracts from 
Rohilkhand to Gorakhpur (Duthie). Distris,: Temp. and Trop. 
Himalaya from the Ganges eastwards to Bhutan; also in Bengal 
and southwards to Travancore and Ceylon, extending to Burma 
and China. 
2. A.spiratum, Rf. Br. Prod. 271; Clarke in DC. Mon. 207; 
F, BI, vi, 377 ; Prawn Beng, Pl. 1084 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, it, 787, 
A nanum, Kunth.; Clarke Comm. and Cyrt, Beng. t. 18. Commelina 
nana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1, 1738. C. pumila Herb Royle. 
