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3, from the axils of the bracts, twice articulated in the middle ; 

 fertile stamens 2, with orange-coloured anthers; capsule obtusely 

 trigonal ; seeds tuberculated, solitary in each cell. Allied to A 

 vaginatum, Br. ; but the much longer leaves, and 1 -seeded cells, 

 distinguish it from that species. Wight Ic. 2076. 



6. A ELATUM, Dalz. loc. cit. 3 to 4 feet high ; stem erect, 

 round, smooth, leafy ; leaves linear-lanceolate acute, smooth, flat, 

 with white, undulated margins, 6 to 8 inches long, 2 inches broad ; 

 sheaths entire, 1 inch long peduncles terminal, dichotomously 

 branched, the branches distant and few-flowered ; flowers in threes ; 

 the petaloid sepals obovate cuneate, re Hexed. This remarkable 

 species has tuberous roots. Differs from the A giganteum of R. 

 Brown only in having bearded stamens, and from the A elatum 

 of Kunth, in the exterior sepals being oval, obtuse, and concave, 

 not linear, as in that species. Syn. Commelyna elata, Vahl (?). 

 In dark, shady woods of the South Concan. Wight Ic. 2072. 



7. A CANALICULATUM, Dalz. loc. cit. 6 to 7 inches high ; root 

 fibrous ; stem simply branched erect, striated, alternately marked 

 on one side with a pubescent line ; lower leaves broad-linear 

 lanceolate, upper ones cordate-oblong, all stem-clasping, smooth, 

 channelled in the middle ; peduncles terminal and axillary, solitary 

 or twin, dichotomously branched, few-flowered ; flowers rather long- 

 pedicelled, bifarious, distant; stamens 3, perfect ; anthers blue, all 

 the filaments bearded ; capsule oblong, acutely trigonal ; cells 4 to 

 5-seeded ; seeds in a single row; flowers blue. Southern Concan. 

 Syn. A paniculatum, Wight Ic. 2075. 



8. A DEMORPHUM, Dalz. loc. cit. All except the ciliated 

 mouth of the sheaths smooth, one foot high, a little branched at 

 the base ; branches erect, round-striated, internodes marked on 

 one side with a pubescent line ; lower leaves linear-acuminate, 

 upper lanceolate-acute, all stem-clasping ; flowers terminal, dicho- 

 tomously panicled, few ; pedicels and branches of the panicle with 

 rounded, cucullate bracts ; fertile stamens 3 ; anthers purple ; fertile 

 filaments only bearded, gland -bearing; filaments naked. The little 

 cucullate bracts mark this species from all others. When speci- 

 mens are found on a stony soil, the internodes are so much shortened 

 as to give the plant a very different appearance, the leaves appear- 

 ing all radical. Southern Concan. 



9. A SEMITERES, Dalz. loc. cit. Stem erect, simple, round, 

 smooth, 2 to 5 inches high ; leaves few, subulate fleshy, half round ; 

 sheaths entire ; flowers terminal, and from the axils of the uppermost 

 leaf dichotomously panicled, few ; peduncles and pedicels red ; floral 

 sheaths truncate, one-toothed. All the filaments united at the base. 

 Syn. Cyanotis nimmoniana, Grah. Cat. p 224 ; Dichcespermum 

 juncoides, Wight. Ic. 2078. 



