JEM, MMW. 
ANILEMA LINEOLATUM. 
2. Anilema lineolatum, Kunth Enum IV. p. 69. Miquel Flor. Ind. III. p. 539 charact. emend. Hassk. Commely- 
naceex, p.36 cum syn. A. elatum Dalzell in Hook. Journ. Bot. III. p.137. Anilema herbaceum ex herb. Hk. f. et Th. C. B. Clarke 
in Linn. Journ. IX., p. 448. Miquel Flor. Ind. III., p. 586 exclus. syn. Roxb. A. latifolium, Wight Icones t. 2072. 
Suberecta robusta. Folia late lanceolata basi subito angustata vaginis distantibus. Panicula subcorymbosa ter- 
minalis ramis sub-dichotome alternis, bracteis marcescentibus sub-vaginantibus. Stamina 8 (raro 2) perfecta. Semina 9 (vel 
abortu 9-6) tuberculato-rugosa. 
Hab. Jn montibus communis : Himalaya ad 500-8000 ped. alt.: Khasia ad 500-5000 ped. alt. ; in Parasnath et in Chota 
Nagpore ad 500-2000 ped. alt. 
Distributio Indica. In montibus Peninsula Indice. In Birma et Malaya. 
Folia glabrata albo-marginata, basi rotundata. Paniculew robuste rami alterni cum sepalis herbacei virides. Ad dichoto- 
mias panicule bractexw breves, inferiores vaginantes, basi lata apice subito acuminate, Capsula majuscula plus minus albido plumbea 
parietibus crassis. 
Vidi specimina viva spontanea numerosa. 
‘A common but as here limited rather too critical a species for while very variable itself it is only separated by trifling char« 
acters from several other species. 
When in fruit with only two seeds perfected in some cells of the capsules it is very near Anilema ensifolium, which however 
has the flowers more closely packed on the panicle branches and all the lower flowers on a panicle branch barren. 
The fertile stamens in A. lineolatum are sometimes 2 more usually 3 and then the barren stamens vary greatly, being some- 
times nearly obsolete, at other times about as big as the fertile stamens but with imperfect empty anthers. In this young state without 
fruit itis much like Aclisia indica, and I have in Linn. Journ. XI. p. 443 referred a young specimen of Aclisia indica here by mistake 
under the name Anilema lineolatum yiscidum. It may be seen however by comparing the figures of the flowers in Tab. XV. and Tab. 
XXIX that in Anilema the fertile stamens alternate with the barren, in Aclisia the three fertile stamens are unilateral standing together. 
Commelyna herbacea Roxb. Flor. Ind. I. p. 175 and t. 1770 in Calcutta Herbarium was referred here by me in Linn. 
Journ. XI. p. 448, but I now think Dr. Hasskarl right in rejecting it. In Roxburgh’s picture the dissections of the eapsule and seeds 
a have been taken from a plant of Anilema lineolatum or one of the very closely allied species : but they appear to have been subse- 
quently added to the drawing of the plant itself, which looks to me as though taken from one of the Malayan Aclisiw. At all events it 
differs widely from Anilema lineolatum and all the-allied species in the.sheaths of the.upper leaves which are imbricated so as completely 
to conceal the stem ; and in the semi-corolloid texture of the panicle bracts and sepals. 
EXPLICATIO TABULA: XV- 
Planta a Tab, 2072, Wight Icones exseripta est. 
Flos unicus auctus ab eadem Tab. 2072 exscripta est. 
1. Capsula matura regulariter trigona a latere visa. 
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Capsule ejusdem dehiscentis horizontalis sectio. 
8. Semina loculo unico ejusdem capsule in situ ab externa facie visa. 
4, Semina eadem ab interna facie visa. 
Ex iisdem tribus seminibus intermedium a fucie interna visum. Hilum yix lineare, 
a 
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Paniculm parva pars bracteas exhibens. 
