2. Aneilema.] 143. COMMELINACE^. 



4. A. nudiflorum, Br, 



A herb with many slender branches decumbent and rooting or 

 ascending. Leaves linear or linear -lanceolate, 2-5" by -IS-- 4" rarely 

 •5" broad, acute or sub-obtuse, sheath bearded. Flowers small, 

 blue or purplish in terminal or leaf-opposed few-fid. cymes, cymes 

 becoming paniculate with elongate peduncles marked with the scars 

 of fallen bracts at the cyme. Ovary with cells 2-ovuled. Capsule 

 broadly oblong-ellipsoid, mucronate, • 15'' long, each cell with 2 broadly 

 oblong very rugose and pitted seeds, truncate at their common end, 

 rounded or obtuse at the other, nearly as broad as long. 



A common weed. Near Purneah, Kurz ! Santal Parg., Kurz ! Singbhiim ! 

 Ranchi, Prain ! Manbhum, Wood ! Probably throughout the province. Fl., 

 Fr. r.s. 



L. glabrous in our specimens, sometimes hairy or siibvillous (F.B.I.). FIs. on 

 pedicels •1--2" long. St. 3 fertile with bearded filaments, 3 staminodes with 

 filaments bearded or not. 



In var. compressa, Clarke (not so far reported from our area), the seeds are 3 

 in each cell. 



5. A. terminalis, comb. nov. 8yn. A. Hamiltonianum, Wall. ; Trades- 



cantia terminalis, Blume (1827). 

 Diffuse but less branched than spiratum with creeping and rooting 

 stems 6-12". Leaves suberect linear-lanceolate, often complicate, 

 amplexicaul 1-3" by 1-2-2 -2", nearly glabrous. Flowers more or 

 less concealed in the leaf -bases, pedicels jointed. Ovary many- 

 ovuled. Capsule oblong shining -25" long with about 16 seeds in 

 each cell. 



Sarguja, C. B. Clarice ! Also in United Provinces (Moradabad) and Goalpara, 

 so probably thi-oughout our northern area. Fl. Sept.-Oct. 



L. acute or subacute. Flowers white or pinkish. Filaments naked. Peduncle 

 under -25". 



The oldest specific name is terminalis, but this was subsequently utilized by 

 Wight for a different plant subsequently reduced by Clarke to a variety of A. nudi- 

 florum. 



6. A. vaginatum, Br. 



A slender grass-like herb with erect and prostrate branches from 

 near the root 6-18" long often rooting at the nodes. Leaves 2-6" long 

 by •.3--4" broad. Flowers small purple-blue star-like, -25" diam., 

 1-3 rarely 4 together in the axils of distant convolute bracts. Stamens 

 2 perfect and 3-4 with aborted anthers, bearded with long purple 

 hairs (or naked, F.B.I.). Capsule 3-celled and -seeded, -I^-'IG" 

 diam. subglobose, glabrous. 



Very common in wet ground. Purneah, King ! Chota Nagpur, all districts ! 

 Probably throughout the province as it is common in the Deccan, etc. Fl., Fr. 

 July-Oct. 



Stems striate, often puberulous. L. : upper reduced to bracts and erect, sheaths 

 short open pubescent. Pedicels -5- -75" on a short peduncle, scarcely exserted 

 from the bract, " twice jointed in the middle " (F.B.I.). Seeds hemispheric, black, 

 rugose. Sepals pubescent, narrow, persistent, equalling the petals. Petals 

 broader, ovate or oblong. 



3. CYANOTIS, Don. 

 Herbs, usually prostrate or creeping, sometimes tuberous. Flowers 

 rarely clustered in the leaf sheaths, usually 2-seriate secund on the 



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