160 MONOCOTYLEDONEÆ. COMMELINA, 
Spathe 1 */, cent., pubescentes aut hirsute. Racemus inferior 1-flo- 
rus, interdum 2-florus, haud raro depauperatus vel obsoletus ; supe- 
rior 2-3-florus. Petala azurea. Capsula tenuis nitidula ; valvula dorsa- 
lis vasculis spiralibus minute longitudinaliter striatula. Semina arcte 
foveolata, rugulosa, areolis sæpe farinosis; rarius minutis glandulis 
serie dispositis quasi-reticulata (nunquam marginibus alveolarum ele- 
vatis continuis, ut in Webb et Berth. tab. 239 cit.). — E nodis infe- 
rioribus C. Benghalensis haud raro prodeunt ramuli fere aphylli, spa- 
thas parvas valde depauperatas sustinentes. Intra spathas hujusmodi, 
flos (verosimiliter cleistogamus) capsulam abnormalem papyraceam 
1-2-locularem 1-2-spermam maturat; semina sæpe abnormalia, ing- 
qualia, magna at perfecta sunt; capsule (more Arachidis etc.) in 
ramulis hærentes in terra absconditæ sunt (C. vivipara, Ritchie ms.). 
Cf. Weinmann in Flora 1820, pp. 733, 734. 
Orbis Vetus. Africa, ab insulis Canary et Abyssinia ad Cap. Bon? 
Spei; Angola (Welwitsch n. 6646); ins. Bourbon, Mauritius, Mada- 
gascar. India et Malaya, a Punjab ad Zeylaniam et Ins. Moluccenses. 
China meridionalis et Ins. Philippine. Japonia (Zollinger n. 99) 
— Guiana Francorum (Poiteau; Perottet) an allata ? 
B, hirsuta (sp. R. Br.! in Salt Abyss. Append. p. 62, nomem ni- 
dum); foliis oblongis utrinque angustatis, pubescentibus laxe villosis. 
C. latifolia, Hochst. in Schimp. n. 2269 (quoad exempl. in herb. Mis. 
Britann. conservatum), in Schimper n. 1686 partim. 
Abyssinia (Salt; Hildebrandt n. 369); in montibus provinciæ Gage 
ros, alt. 1200 met. (Schimper n. 1499). Madagascar et Ins. Comores 
(Boivin n. 2329). 
29. €. congesta s robusta, fere glabra ; foliis magnis, lanceoli- 
tis, basi angustatis; spathis infundibuliformibus subterminalibus, 
congestis; capsulz loculis ventralibus unoquoque semina 2-1 perfecta 
2-2 '/, mill. levia maturante. 
Folia longa 10 cent., lata 2 */, cent., acuminata ; vagina subglabr? 
marginibus ciliatis. Pedunculi fere O. Spathæ longs 2 */, cent., lat? 
1'/ cent., glabratæ, haud striatee. Racemus superior 3-5 capsu" 
maturans. Flores a Soyaux primum lutei notati postea (litteris «lutei? 
erasis) albi dicuntur. Ovarii loculi 2 ventrales 2-ovulati, ovulis infe- 
rioribus interdum abortivis. Semina elliptica, paullo compressa, pube 
rula, cinereo-fusca. gi 
Africa occidentalis tropica: Loango, Quelle (Soyaux); Senegambia; 
Victoria, Cameroons (Kalbreyer). 
