TAB. XVIII. 
ANILEMA NANUM. 
5. Anilema nanum Kunth Enum. IV. p. 65. Wight Icones t. 2077, Miquel Flor. Ind. III. p. 536. Commelyna 
nana Roxb. Flor. Ind. I. p. 178 et t. 1107, in Calcutta Herbario. A. Nummularia Miquel Flor. Ind. III. p. 535: 
Repens, ramosum, nanum. Folia oblonga, basi subito angustata, subglabra. Panicule terminales, bracteis parvis 
persistentibus. Stamina perfecta. Semina 9-18 punctata. 
Hab. In Bengalia ubique, 
Distributio Indica, Tn Zeylania; Peninsula Indica; planitie Gangetica superiore ; Burma et Java (ex specimine sub nomine 
Anilemate-Nummularia Miquel recepto). 
Vidi specimina viva spontanea numerosissima. 
Roxburgh figures the filaments without hairs on them : Wight with hairs : both states occur. Flowers blue, purpurascent 
or even brick-red, 
Anilema nanum seems remote enough by its habit from A, lineolatum, but T still am in want of a hard and fast character to 
distinguish A, nanum from A. divergens. Between these two stands Anilema paniculatum Wight Icones t. 2075 : this differs from A, 
nanum in being upright, in the numerous flowers on the panicle, and in the less markedly punctate seeds. 
Anilema dimorphum Dalzell said to be = A. paniculatum (Thwaites’ Ceylon Prodr. p- 322) is very different in its creeping 
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habit and straggling depauperated panicle according to the specimen of C. P. 3025, communicated by Mr. Thwaites. 
Anilema canaliculatum Dalzell in Hook. Journ, Bot. III: p. 187 is an accurate description of A. nanum. 
EXPLICATIO TABULA XVIII. 
Planta e tabula 1107 Roxburghii exscripta, 
Flos auctus ¢ tabula eadem exseripta. 
Japsula matura a latere visa. 
2. Capsule ejusdem dehiscentis horizontalis sectio, Una valvula amota semina falso biserialia yidentur. 
3. Semina in situ visa, valvula ut in fig. 2 amota, 
4. Capsule horizontalis sectio. 
5. Semina unius loculi in situa facie exteriore visa, 
6. Semina cadem a facie interiore visa. 
