380 CLX. OOMMELINA.CEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aneilema. 



Petals blue. Staminodes with glabrous or bearded filaments. Capsule % in. long, 

 mucronate, valves hard polished. 



Sect. II. DICH^SPERMTJM. Cells of ovary 4-20-ovuled. Seeds 2-seriate 

 in each cell. 



* Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, pedicels jointed in the middle. . 



18. A. Hamiltonianum, Wall. Gat. 5222; stem creeping rooting, 

 leaves linear-oblong flat glabrate, pedicels axillary and terminal fruiting 

 hardly exserted, capsule linear-oblong, seeds scabrid or flocculent biseriate. 

 Clarke Monogr. 213. Dichsespermam Blumei, Hassle. Comm. Ind. 41. ; 

 Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 27. Tradescantia terminalis, Blume 

 Enum. i. 6. Callisia orien-talis^jHe^Z*. Ham. 



UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN to ASSAM, in marshes; Chota Nagpore, Clarke. 

 DISTBIB. Java. 



Stem 6-12 in., stout, sparingly branched. Leaves 1^-2 in., sessile, acute or sub- 

 acute, base cuneate. Peduncle - in., rigid. Petals white or rosy. Filaments 

 all naked. Capsule %-* in., acute.- Seeds about 16 in each cell. 



Var. minor, Clarke 1. c. 214 ; stems shorter, seeds about 30 in each cell, nearly 

 smooth. Dichaespermum repens, Qlarke Comm. 8f Cyrt. Seng. t. 28 (not of Wight}. 

 Assam, Hamilton. 



19. A. ochraceum y Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1851, 135; stem 

 short erect or decumbent, leaves small flat oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse 

 or acute, base cordate, pedicels axillary fruiting exserted, capsule broadly 

 oblong, seeds angular rugose biseriate. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 253 ; Clarke 

 Monogr. 214, t. 4, f. 3. Dichaespermum repens, Wight Ic. t. 2078 (not of 

 Hassk.). D. ochraceum, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 41. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. TENASSEEIM, Griffith, 

 Heifer. 



Stem 4-8 in., rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves f | by | in., glabrous or 

 nearly so, bases subamplexicaul . Pedicels %-% in., slender. Sepals narrow. 

 Petals yellow. Stamens and staminodes 3 each, filaments naked. Capsule in. 

 long. Seeds 7-8 in each cell, pale yellow. Dalzell describes the filaments as 

 bearded in the Journal of Botany, but not in the Bombay Flora. 



Var. crocea, Clarke Monogr. 214 ; aquatic, leaves ovate subacute, pedicels solitary 

 or 2-nate, sepals densely pubescent, capsule narrower. A. croceum, Griff. Notul. iii. 

 235. A. pilosum, Wall. Cat. 5219. A. ochraceum, var. Griffith!!, Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1870, ii. 85. Arracan, Burma and the Andaman Islands. 



20. A. lanug-inosum, Wall. Cat. 5221 ; hirsute or glabrate, stem 

 suberect, leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate acuminate, pedicels ex- 

 serted, flowers large, filaments bearded, capisule oblong acute many- 

 seeded, seeds nearly smooth. Clarice Monogr. 214. Commelina lanuginosa, 

 Seyne mss. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan: southwards, 'in hilly districts, 

 ascending the Nilghiris to 6000 ft. 



Hoots of thickened fibres. Stem 6-16 in., stout, branched. Leaves 1-2| in., 

 rigid, deeply grooved when dry, acuminate, strongly striate, usually complicate and 

 recurved, base broad, margins waved. Pedicels bracteolate at the joint. Sepals 

 straw-colrd. Petals yellow, blue when dry. Capsule % in., or more. Seeds 

 angular. 



** Flowers panicled. 



