POLLIA. COMMELINACEÆ (AUCT. C. B. CLARKE). ` 129 
minüs verticillatis, et (ex Bentham) floribus paullo majoribus. Capsula 
cum seminibus omnino eadem. 
Australia; in provinciis Queensland et New South Wales, prope 
flumen Williams ( R. Brown n. 5742); Moreton Sinus (Verreaux 
n. 655); New England (F. Mueller). 
13. P. subumbellata (C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. 11, 
p. 451); foliis oblongis ellipticisve, petiolatis, fere glabris; panicula 
sessili, depressa, subumbellata, ramis decurvatis, pedicellis fructüs 
tempore erectis; capsula globosa, cyanea. Aclisia subumbellata, 
C. B. Clarke Commel. et Cyrt. Beng. tab. 30. Aneilema reniforme, 
Ham.! in Wall. Cat. 5205. Aneilema sp., Wall.! Cat. 9070. Aclisia 
Sp. 3, herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. et T. Thoms. Dictyospermum Wightii 
var. robustum, Hassk! Commel. Ind., p. 19. 
Late repens, radicans. Caules suberecti, 3-4 dm. ; vaginæ minute 
pubescentes, summe imbricatæ. Folia longa 12 cent., lata 4 cent., 
acuminata, basi angustata, utrinque minute scabra; petioli sspe 
1-2 cent. Panicula alta 3 cent., lata 5-8 cent., minute pubescens ; 
bracteolæ 2-5 mill, ovatæ, amplexicaules, persistentes, glabræ. 
Sepala rotunda, glabra, viridia, 2 mill.; fructüs proventu aucta 4-5 
mill., capsulam integentia. Petala minora, alba. Stamina 3 fertilia, 
3 minora sterilia. Capsula 4-5 mill. diam., 18-30-sperma. Semina tra- 
riens a dorso valde complanata, fusca, levia, minutissime foveo- 
ata. 
India orientalis; alt. 0-750 met., in provinciis Sikkim, Bhotan, 
Assam, Muneypoor, Cachar, Khasia, Sylhet ; communis. 
SECTIO III. — PHÆOCARPA. 
Semina in quoque loculo 2 superposita, elliptica, peltata; capsula 
6-5-sperma, apice acuta. 
14. P. pentasperma ; foliis ellipticis, petiolatis, apice basique 
Acuminatis; panicula ovato-lanceolata, erecta, pedunculata, termi- 
nali. 
Caulis erectus, simplex, glaber aut minute pubescens; vaginz 
longæ, pubescentes, summæ imbricatæ. Folia longa 12 cent., lata 
? cent., supra vix scabra subtüs minute villosa; petiolus 1 cent. 
Pedunculus 2-4 cent., pilis deflexis uncinatis pubescens, In medio 
Surre au Prodromus III. 9 
