368 CLX. COMMELINACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pallia- 



glabrous or scaberulous above. Peduncle villous with deflexed hairs ; panicle viscidly 

 pubescent ; bracts oblong, persistent. Sepals elliptic, glabrous or puberulous. Petals 

 white or pale pink. Fruit as in P. Aclisia. The Indian forms occur under two 

 varieties. 



Var. indica; leaves subsessile caudate-acuminate glabrous or puberulous beneath, 

 pedicels viscid, sepals persistent, the posterior pendulous. P. indica, Thwaites Enuni. 

 323. Aclisia indica, Wight Ic. t. 2068; Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 41. A. elegans, 

 Hassk. PI Jungh.4Q', Comm. Ind. 50. Commelina secundiflora, Blume Enum. 3. 

 Aneilema secundiflorum, Kunth Enum. iv. 69. The Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. 

 Java. 



Var. gigantea ; panicle corymbosely-dichotomous, branches panicled at the tips, 

 1-2 lower branches elongate. P. indica, var. A, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 xi. 451. P. japonica, Hance in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1878, 233 (not of Thunb.). 

 Aclisia gigantea, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 46. A. indica, Herb. Wt. ; Clarke Comm. 

 <fc Cyrt. Beng. t. 29. Aneilema didymum, Wall. Cat. 5202. From Sikkim eastwards 

 and southwards. China. 



4. P. subumbellata, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xi. 451; 

 Mlonogr. 129 ; panicle sessile depressed, branches subumbellately decurved, 

 stamens 3 perfect, capsule globose, cells many-seeded. Aclisia umbellata, 

 Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Seng. t. 30. Aneilema reniforme, Ham. in Wall. 

 Cat. 5205. Aneilema, sp. 'Wall. Cat. 9070. A. sp. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H. 



f. & T. Dictyospermum Wightii, var. robustum, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 

 19. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Sikkim, the Bhotan and Mishrni hills, ascending to 

 6000 ft. ASSAM, SILHET, CACHAR and MUNNIPORE. 



Stem creeping and rooting below, then suberect. Leaves 3-4 by 1-2 in., 

 petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, scaberulous on both surfaces. 

 Panicle puberulous ; bracts small ; bracteoles amplexicaul, persistent, glabrous. 

 Sepals rounded, glabrous, enclosing the globose blue fruit which is - in. diam. 

 Petals white. Seeds trapezoid, dorsally much flattened, brown, smooth. 



5. P. pentasperma, Clarke Monogr. 129 ; panicle peduncled ovate- 

 lanceolate, stamens 3 perfect, fruit ovoid narrowed into a long beak acute, 

 cells 1-2-seeded. 



KHASIA HILLS; at Shillong, alt. 4000 ft., Clarke. MUNNIPORE; on Kohima, 

 alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. 



Stem erect; sheaths long, pubescent. Leaves 3-6 by H-2 in., shortly-petioled, 

 caudate-acuminate, elliptic, acute i at both ends, slightly scaberulous above and 

 pubescent beneath. Peduncle pubescent with deflexed hairs, subumbellate ; bracts 

 oblong; bracteoles imbricate, ochreate, persistent. Sepals puberulous, accrescent. 

 Fruit % in. long including the beak, which is as long us the body, hard, smooth, 

 brown, shining. Seeds much compressed, rugulose. 



2. COIVEIVXELINA, Linn. 



Herbs, usually slender and creeping below. Flowers in usually 2-fid 

 cymes, emerging one at a time from a terminal complicate or funnel-shaped 

 or cucullate spathe, flowers of upper branch of cyme small, deciduous, of 

 lower fertile; fruiting pedicel and capsule retracted within the spathe. 

 Sepals 3, membranous, 2 inner often connate at the base. Petals longer, 

 one larger and often clawed. Stamens 3 perfect, and 2-3 imperfect ; anthers 

 oblong, one usually largest. Ovary 3-rarely 2-celled, 2 cells 1-2-ovuled, 

 third cell if present 1-ovuled or empty. Capsule loculicidal, the posticous 

 cell sometimes indehiscent or 0, or the 2 anticous cells empty connate in- 



