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278 COMMELINACEZ. [ ANEILEMA. 
Stem 6-12 in. long, creeping and rooting at the nodes, leafy, sparingly 
branched. Leaves sessile, flat, 14-2 in. long, linear-oblong, acute or 
subacute, glabrate, base cuneate. Peduncles $-} in., rigid; pedicels 
axillary or terminal. Petals white or pink. Filaments all naked. 
Capsule linear-oblong, acute, 4-} in. long, Seeds 2-seriate, about. 
16 or more in each cell, scabrid or flocculent. 
Upper Gangetic Plain, usually in wet ground ; Moradabad (‘T. Thomson). 
DisTR1B. : Eastwards to Bengal and Assam and extending to Java. 
5, A. vaginatum, FR. Br. Prod. 271 ; Clarke in DC. Mon. wii, 216 ; 
F. B. vi, 381 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1084 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 14, 79. 
Root fibrous, the fibres stout and almost fleshy. Stem decumbent, 
6-18 in. long, rooting at the lower nodes, very slender, flaccid ; 
branches suberect, ending in filiform peduncles with distant bracts. 
Leaves 3-8 in. long, linear, acuminate, flat; sheaths short, open, 
ciliate. Flowers small, 1-3, fascicled in the axils of distant bracts 
along the filiform terminations of the branches ; bracts }-} in. long, 
strongly ribbed; pedicels very slender, puberulous, usually twice- 
jointed Sepals % in. long, obtuse. Petals orbicular, blue. Stamens 
2, perfect, and with bearded filaments; sterile stamens 3-4, usually 
naked and shorter. Ovary 2-celled ; cells l-ovuled. Capsule globose, 
cuspidate ; cells 1-seeded or empty. Seeds 3-gonously conic, trun- 
cate at one end narrowed at the other, slightly rugose, black. 
Common in rice fields and wet places. Distris.: Throughout Trop. 
India and in Ceylon, extending to China. 
3. CYANOTIS, Don; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 384. 
Herbs, prostrate or creeping. Leaves small. Flowers in axillary 
and terminal scorpioid cymes, formed of large imbricate 2-seriate 
secund foliaceous falcate bracteolés, the petals and stamens alone 
exserted, rarely with the corolla-tube exserted ; flowers sometimes 
in exposed racemes or fascicled in the ochreate leaf-sheath. Sepals 
3, subequal, free or connate below. Petals 3, subequal, often 
united in a tube below, limb orbicular. Stamens 6, alt perfect, 
subequal, hypogynous or epigynous ; filaments: usually bearded, 
often inflated towards the apex, anthers oblong. Ovary 3-celled ; 
ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, one erect the other pendulous. 
Fruit a 3-celled loculicidal capsule. Seeds usually 2 in each cell, 
superposed, cubical or pyramidal, usually rugose.—Species 35, 
