Commelina.'] CLX. COMMELINACKJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 373 



cucullate, seeds broadly ellipsoid smooth. Clarke Monogr. 178. Comme- 

 lina, sp. No. 6. Serb. Ind. or Hf. Sf T. Trithyrocarpus paleatus & T v 

 oligospathus, Hassk. Commel. Ind. 25. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA; theConcan and Malabar, Law, Stocks, &c, DISTEIB. 

 Java. 



Stem branched, glabrous. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., glabrous or scaberulous, 

 acuminate, base rounded or cuneate. Spathes % in., crowded or not, scaberulous 

 or finely pubescent, striate, base broad, rhomboid. Petals blue. Seeds dark 

 brown, sometimes margined with white, broader and less compressed than in C. 

 obliqua, of which it is perhaps a var. with peduncled spathes. 



15. C. undulata, Br. Prodr. 270 ; stem stout, leaves lanceolate 

 waved, spathes subsessile ovate hooded acute, seeds shortly ellipsoid 

 smooth. Clarke Monogr. 179. C. ensifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. viii. 

 60 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 83 (in part} (not of Br.). C. setosa, Wight in 

 Wall. Cat. 8981 D. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA; in the southern provinces, Wight. DISTBIB. Australia 

 China, Philippine Islds., &c. 



No doubt a slight variety of C. obliqua. Clarke refers the only Indian specimen 

 (Wight's) to a variety ()8. setosa) with elongate leaves 4-5 by - in. The locality 

 given, " Nopaloy," is meant for Nopalry, cultivated Opuntia fields in which Wight 

 found many weeds. J. D. H. 



Sect. 5. HETEEOPYXIS. Capsule 3-celled, 2-valved, the dorsal cell 

 indehiscent, deciduous, of ten 'scabrid. Seed adnate to the cell. 



16. C- albescenSj HassJc. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. JEthiop. 210; leaves 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, spathes subsessile strongly recurved hooded 

 auricled on one side falcately hooked on the other, seeds ellipsoid com- 

 pressed smooth. Clarke Monogr. 184. C. striata, Wall. Cat. 8981 (in 

 part, not of others). C. Schimperiana and multicaulis, Hochst. in 

 Schimp. Herb. No. 1242 and No. 2268. Commelina, Sp. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 Hf. & T. 



SCIND, Stocks, &c. DISTEIB. Beluchistan, Arabia, trop. Africa. 



Stem 1-2 ft., thickened at the base, glabrous. Leaves 2-3 by - in., margins 

 white, often waved. Spathes $ in. long and broad as folded, glabrous or sparsely 

 hispid ; raceme usually simple. Petals blue. Seeds black, spotted with dull 

 yellow. 



17. C. XLurzii, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xi. 144 ; Comm. Sf 

 Cyrt. Beng. t. 8 ; Monogr. 185, t. 2, f . 4 ; stem stout, leaves subsessile 

 narrowly lanceolate acuminate scaberulous puberulous or hirsute, spathes 

 sessile usually capitate cucullate or broadly cordate and complicate acute, 

 seeds in the lateral cells broadly ellipsoid compressed smooth, in the 

 dorsal hemispheric. C. longifolia,- Thwaites Enum. 322 (not of LamJc.). C. 

 communis, and C. striata, Wall. Cat. 8978 C, D (in part) and 8981 C (in 

 part}. C. augustifolia, Hassk. as to Thwaites C. P. 3224. Commelina, Sp. 



Wall. Cat. 8982. 



The SOUTHERN DECCAN PENINSULA, Malabar and the Nilghiris, Rottler, &c. 

 CEYLON, common. ' i 



Stem 1-2 ft., hairy or glabrate. Leaves 2-6 by |-f in., acuminate, sheaths 

 ciliate. Spathes recurved, eolitary or clustered, f in. long and broad, raceme 

 simple. Petals blue. Capsule with the dorsal cell scabrid. Hardly distinguish- 

 able from the common American C. virginica, L., except by its country and slightly 



