Aneilema."] CLX. COMMELINAJOEJB. (J. D. Hooker.) 383 



in Peters. Mossamb. Sot. ii. 529, Flora, 1863,389. Piletocarpus protensus, 

 Hassk. Comm. Ind. 15. 



The TROPICAL EASTERN HIMALAYA and the KHASIA HILLS. ; from Nepal to 

 Bhotan. TRAVANCORE, Wight. CEYLON, Walker, &c. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



Subfruticose 2-3 ft. high. Leaves 3-6 by f-lf in., sessile, sheaths loose, viscid 

 or hispid ; base narrowed or rounded. Panicle very lax and spreading with few 

 flowers at the tips of the branches ; bracts sheathing obliquely truncate ; flowers 

 small white. Sepals reflexed in fruit. Capsule % in. diain., style long, persistent. 

 Seeds plano-convex, glaucous, black. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



A. -&QUINOCTIALE, Kunth Enum. iv. 72 ; Clarke Monog. 221. Amelina Wallichii, 

 Clarke Comm. $ Cyrt. Beng. 6, 26, is an African species of which the locality was 

 not determined when it was included in " Comm. & Cyrt. Beng." 



4. FORRESTIA, A. Sick. 



Erect herbs ; stem simple, creeping and rooting below. Leaves broad, 

 sheaths tubular persistent after the fall of the blade. Flowers bracteate, 

 sessile, in t crowded subsessile axillary panicles. Sepals subequal. 

 Petals subequal. Stamens 6, all perfect, filaments bearded ; anthers ovoid. 

 Ovary 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled or the dorsal 1-ovuled. Capsule subglobose, 

 or ellipsoid, or oblong, 3-valved, loculicidal. Seeds 1-2 superposed in each 

 cell, oblong, rugose. Species 7, East Asiatic and New Guinea, and one 

 African. 



The first three species . may prove to be forms of the F. hispida, A. Rich (Sert. 

 Astrolab. ii. t. 1), a native of New Guinea and Formosa, J. D. H. 



1. F. mollis, Hassk. in Flora, 1864,68; Commel Ind. 84; hirsute, 

 leaves oblanceolate sparsely hairy above villous beneath, capsule oblong or 

 ellipsoid about equalling the rusty hispidly villous sepals. Clarke Monogr. 

 236. Campelia mollissima, Blume Enum. i. 7. Amischotolype mollissima, 

 Hassk. in Flora, 1863, 392. 



MALABAR, J. Anderson. SINGAPORE, Walker. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew 

 distrib. 5485), Maingay (K. d. 1712). DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 



Stem 3-4 ft., as thick as the thumb, glabrous hairy or shaggily hispid. 

 Leaves 6-18 by 2-3 in., subpetioled, acute, base acute; sheaths glabrous or 

 hirsute. Panicle a sessile dense-fld. globose head, 2-3 in. diam. Capsule ^ in. 

 long, rusty villous. Seeds subellipsoid, obscurely rugose. 



2. P. Griffith!!, Clarke Monogr. 236 ; leaves oblong-lanceolate ful- 

 vously hairy on both surfaces, capsule elliptic-oblong subacute fulvously 

 hairy much longer than the sepals. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay, Rullett. 



Stem stout, glabrate. Leaves 7 by 2^ in., shortly acuminate ; petiole shaggy ; 

 sheath glabrous, mouth villous. Sepals -| in., oblong, sparsely hairy. Capsule 

 r V in. long. 



3. r. marg inata, Hassk. in Flora, 1864, 630 ; Commelin. Ind. 90 ; 

 leaves obovate- or elliptic-lanceolate glabrous or margins villously ciliate, 

 capsule ellipsoid longer than the sepals. Clarke Monogr. 237. F. hispida, 

 Sot. Mag. t. 5425 (not of A. Rich). Campelia marginata, Blume Enum,. i. 

 7 ; Wall. Gat. 8977 A, B. Amischotolyp^ marginata, Hassle, in Flora, 

 1863, 392. Tradescantia sp., Griff. Notul. iii. 235. Pollia purpurea, 

 Hort. > 



