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TAB. XXIX. 
ACLISIA INDICA. 
1. Aclisia indica Wight Icones t. 2068 Hassk.Commelynacer p.44. A. gigantea Hassk. Commelynacesa, p. 46. 
A. sorzogonensis Kunth Enum.IV.p.74. Pollia indica Thwaites Enumeratio, p. 323. Pollia Sorzogonensis Benth. Hongkong 
Flora, p. 377. Anilema secundiflorum Kunth Enum. IV. p. 69. Miquel Flor. Ind. III. p. 540. 
Herba elata viscide pubescens. Folia lanceolata, inferiora basi vaginantia, 1-2 superiora distantia sessilia. Pani- 
cula exserta seperamosa. Semina levia minute punctata. 
Hab, In sylvis Terai dictis ad basin Himalaya et in conyallibus montium ad 0-1500 ped. ait. a Nepal ad Bhotan ; inde per 
“Assam et Khasia usque ad Muneypoor, et Chittagong. 
Distributio Indica. In Zeylania, Malabaria, montibus Nilgherry, insulis Andaman, Burma et Malaya. 
Bractew oblonge vix vaginantes persistentes, Corolla (ut semper a me visa) alba. 
Planta mire Polliam Aclisia referens, quoad folia, inflorescentiam, structuram atque colorem capsule. Praeterea in utraque 
planta, pedicelli et calyces albido-corollini evadunt, atque sepala accrescentia albido-corollina diu fructum amplectuntur. 
Preter characteres genericos a staminibus sumptos, Aclisia indica hisce notis a Pollia Aclisia distinguitur : 
Aclisia Indica : 1-2 folia superiora distantia : panicule princeps rachis haud crassa, vulgo 1-2-dichotoma : petioli juxta va- 
ginas vix undulati : semina magna valde angulosa. 
Pollia Indica : folia superiora approximata : panicule princeps rachis valde crassa nunquam dichotoma : petioli juxta va- 
ginas undulati : semina parvula parum angulosa. 
Vidi specimina viva spontanea, 
Aclisia indica and Pollia Aclisia I have blundered together into one species in my paper on Bengal Commelynace in Linn. 
Journ. XI. pp. 450, 451. In so doing I followed the weight of Botanical authority, but did not sufficiently appreciate that Dr. Hasskarl 
had the advantage over all his weighty opponents of knowing the plants alive. When I confounded the two species it so happened that I 
had collected Aclisia indica in flower only and had referred my specimens on an insufficient examination as varieties of Anilema lineolatum, 
The two species Aclisia indica and Pollia Aclisia are abundantly distinct, but their resemblance in the bluish fruit and in the corolloid pe- 
dicels and sepals increasing on the fruit is most remarkable. 
EXPLICATIO TABULA. XXIX. 
Planta e specimine recente Sikkimensi depicta. 
Flos auctus e tabula 2068 Wight Teones depicta. 
1. Capsula matura subglobosa a latere visa, 
2. Capsule mature horizontalis sectio. 
8. Semina ab externa facie visa. 
4. Semina ab interna facie (hilo) visa, 
5. Stamina e flore recente excisa. 
