376 CLX. COMMELINACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aneilema. 



leaves ; upper bracts truncate, pedicels viscid. Petals blue. Stamens 2 fertile j 

 staminodes 4, all bearded. Capsule in. acuminate. Seeds yellow brown, pitted. 



b. Flowering stem leafy, flowers corymbose or panicled. 



4. A. Thomson!, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Sot. xv. 121 ; Monogr. 

 202, t. 4, f. 2 ; stout, leaves petioled broadly lanceolate or ensiform caudate- 

 acuminate with large bearded sheaths, upper bracts lanceolate caducous, 

 capsule elongate narrowly oblong acuminate and beaked, cells 5-9-seeded, 

 seeds smooth. Aclisia ? Thomsoni, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Seng. t. 31. 

 Dichoespermum giganteum, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 42. Aneilema, sp. 11, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Sikkim, alt. 5-8000, J. D. H., &c. Bhotan, Griffith. 

 NAGA HILLS, alt. 7000 ft., Clarke. 



Stem 1-2 ft., erect. Leaves 6-10 by 2-3 in., glabrous or scaberulous, penni- 

 nerved above the base. Panicle 3-6 in., glabrous, branches spreading widely in 

 fruit, bracts caudate. Sepals glabrous. Petals purple. Stamens 3 fertile, uni- 

 lateral j staminodes 3, sometimes polleniferous, filaments naked. Capsule f-1 in. 

 Seeds shortly cylindric, black, with white powder. 



5. A. divergrens, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Seng. t. 16 ; Monogr. 203 ; 

 stem tall, leaves ensiform, sheaths bearded, panicle erect, upper branches 

 opposite or subwhorled, bracts ovate persistent, capsule ellipsoid acute 

 at both ends, cells 3-5-seeded. A. herbaceum fl.divergens, Clarke in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xi. 448. A. longifolium, Wall. Cat. 5213 A, B. A. scapi- 

 florum, Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. 



TROPICAL and STJB-TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Chamba, alt. 6000. ft., Clarice., 

 eastwards to Sikkim. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft. UPPER BURMA, 

 Anderson. 



Eoot of elongate tubers. Stem 2-3 ft., leafy. Leaves 6-12 by -f in., erect, 

 upper gradually smaller, acuminate. Panicle erect, narrow, bracts ovate, persistent. 

 Petals blue. Stamens 3 fertile, staminodes 3, filaments all bearded. Capsule nearly 

 ^ in., subtrigonous. Seeds yellow. 



6. A. Hookeri, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Seng. t. 171 ; Monogr. 204 ; 

 stem tall stout, leaves ensiform base broad or subcordate, sheaths 

 bearded, panicle erect branches slender spreading repeatedly dichotomous. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. and T. T. 



Distinguished from A. divergens by the broader leaf bases and spreading panicle. 

 Stem 6-12 in., leafy to the top. 



7. A. zeylanicum, Clarke Monogr. 204; leaves narrrowly oblong 

 narrowed at both ends glabrous or pubescent, branches of panicle spread- 

 ing alternate, branches flexuous, bracts minute, capsule subglobose, cells 

 3-5-seeded, seeds slightly pitted. A. montanum, & protensum, TJiwaites 

 Enum. 322. A. dimorphum, Thw. I. c. non Dalz. 



CEYLON, common up to 3000 ft. 



Roots fibrous. Stem 6-12 in., often branched from the base, branches leafy. 

 Leaves 1-3 by f-1 in., sheaths bearded at the mouth. Panicle glabrous, bracts 

 glabrous, hardly sheathing, persistent. Stamens 3 fertile ; staminodes 2-3. Capsule 

 i-i in., obtuse, concave, mucronate. Seeds brown, with white powder. 

 Var. ft. longiscapa, Clarke, 1. c. ; capsule in. Courtalam, Wight. 



8. A. lineolatum, Kunth Enum. iv. 69 ; stem stout, leaves large 

 narrowly oblong or ensiform acuminate, margins white, panicle glabrous 



