370 CLX. COMMELINAOEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Commelina. 



cordate. Flowers small, orange-purple or violet. Capsules 2 ^pa each raceme, 

 small, 3-5-seeded, dorsal valve at length 2-partite. Seeds puberulous, deeply 

 transversely grooved. 



4. C- salicifolia, Roxl. Fl. Ind. i. 172, Ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 176 ; 



leaves linear-lanceolate, spathes peduncled lanceolate complicate, seeds 

 globose smooth truncate appendiculate. Clarice Comm. <$f Cyrt. Beng. t. 

 2 (not of Bojer) ; Monogr. 157 ? Hassle. Commelin. Ind. 27. C. pedunculosa, 

 Linlcjahrb. iii. 74 (in part}. C. communis, Wall. Cat. 8978 C, D, F, G, I 

 (in- part, not of Linn.). 



From ASSAM and BENGAL, southward and westward to the CONCAN and 

 COHOMANDEL. DiSTEiB. Java ? Hong Kongi. 



Stem slender, diffuse, with long internodes. Leaves 3-6 by | -5 in., nearly 

 glabrous, sheaths ciliolate. Spathes l-2 in., axillary, solitary, acute or acuminate, 

 base rounded; branches of cyme 1-2-fld. flowers small, dark blue. Seeds black, 

 powdered with white. 



5. C. Hasskarlii, Clarice Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 5 ; Monogr. 157 ; 

 stem much branched glabrous or pubescent, leaves narrowly lanceolate 

 subacute, spathes peduncled cordate glabrous scabrid or hispid complicate, 

 seeds cylindric-conic smooth not appendaged. C. salicifolia, var. brevi- 

 folia, Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. C. communis, Wall. Cat. 8978 F. (in 

 part). 



The UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN; Kumaon and from Delhi eastward to Assam 

 and Bengal, and southward to the DECCAN PENINSULA. MALWA, on Mt. Aboo, 

 Duthie. 



Stem much branched, scabrid or glabrate. Leaves 1-3 by | | in., subacute or 

 obtuse, sheaths short, glabrous or sparsely .ciliate. Spathes ^-1 in., axillary, 

 scattered, base rounded, longer than their peduncle ; cymes pubescent, upper branch 

 2-4, lower 1-2-fld. Seeds truncate at one end, subacute at the other. 



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Spathe funnel-shaped or hooded. 



6. C. beng-halensis, Linn. Sp. PI. 41 ; stem glabrous or .pubes- 

 cent, leaves elliptic-ovate obtuse, or tip rounded, spathes 1-3 together 

 turbinate base auricled on one side, capsule 5-seeded, seeds rugose. 

 Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 4 ; Monogr. 159 ; Wall. Cat. 8980 A, C, 

 D, E, F, a (in part) ; Hassle. Comm. Ind. 28, 29 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 

 533. Wight^ Ic. t. 2065. C. nervosa, Burm. Fl. Ind. 18, t. 7, f. 3. . 

 cucullata, Linn. Mant. 176. C. mollis, Jacq. Collect, iii. 235 ; Ic. Bar., t. 

 293. C. canescens. Vahl Enum. ii. 173 ; Webb & Berth. Plyt. Canar iii. 

 358, t. 239. C. turbinata, Vahl I.e. 171. C. _ procurrens, Schlecht. in 

 Linnsea xxiv.. 656, xxv. 183 ; Regel Gartenfl. iii. t. 104, iv. 44 ; Seub. in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. Hi. i. 266. C. prostrata, Begel I. c. 1868, 289, t. 592, f. 

 1 (not of H, B, K). C. delicatula> Schlecht. in Eegel I. c. iii. 349, t. 104. 



Throughout INDIA; ascending to 6000 ft. in the Himalaya. DisTRiB. trop. 

 Asia and Africa. 



Stem creeping and rooting below. 'Leaves 1-3 by |-1 in., sessile or petioled, 

 base suddenly contracted or rounded; sheaths pubescent or villous, often bearded 

 or ciliate. Spathes ~% in. long and broad, pubescent or hirsute; upper branch 

 of cymes 2 3-fld., lower 1 2-fld. or suppressed. Flowers blue. Capsule mem- 

 branous, shining, dorsal value striolate. Seeds closely pitted. 



Sect. 2. HETEROCARPTJS, Clarke. Capsule 3-celled, lateral cells 0-2- 

 seeded, dehiscent, dorsal not keeled, 1-seeded, indehiscent, deciduous ; 

 seed free or adnate to the celL Petals yellow, or blue. 



