COMMELINA . COMMELINACE.E (AUCT. C. B. CLARKE). 171 
errore dieit plantam esse Americanam. Kunth (Enum. 4, p. 37) recte 
docet suam C. communem a C. communi Willd. certe differre. At 
Willdenovius plantam Linnæi rite cognoverat. 
China et Japonia; vulgaris. Cochinchina (Loureiro). Ussuri, in 
terra Amurensi (Maack). Hort. Cliffort. (exempl. authent. in herb. 
Mus. Britann.). 
B, ludens (sp. Miq. Journ. Bot. Neerl. 1, p. 88); minor; foliis ovato- 
lanceolatis, scabridis fere pubescentibus. 
China meridionalis ; frequens. 
50. C. elavata (C. B. Clarke Commel. et Cyrt. Beng. tab. 5); 
diffusa, glabriuscula ; foliis anguste lanceolatis; spathis pedunculatis, 
ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis ; seminibus 3-3 */, mill., fere teretibus, 
leviter reticulatis. C. salicifolia, Thwaites Enum. PI. Zeyl. p. 321 
partim, non Roxb. C. Nilagiriea, Steud.! in Pl. Hohenack. n. 1316 
partim. C. diffusa, herb. Zolling.! non Burm. Commelina, nov. sp., 
Miq. in Pl. Hohenack. n. 66. C. communis, Wall. Cat. 8978, L partim, 
non Linn. 
Folia longa 5-7 cent., lata 1-1 :/, cent., acuminata, basi angustata, 
glabra aut pubescentia. Pedunculi 1-4 cent., patentes. Spathæ 
2-3 cent., sparsæ, complicatee nec cucullatæ, acuminatæ, basi rotun- 
date, glabræ rarius pubescentes, obscure transversim striatulæ. 
Racemi inferioris stipes 1!/, cent., fere glaber, superioris capsule 
"Ppe 2. Petala cærulea. Capsula complanata, circumscriptione 
oblonga quadrata in medio constricta, apice bifide mucronata. 
Semina 4, nigrescentia ; 2 inferiora interdum cassa. — C. nudifloræ 
forsan varietas ; differt loculo capsulæ dorsali vacuo aut obsoleto. 
Indie Orientalis peninsula; Montes Nilagirici (Hohenacker, Schmidt, 
C. B. Clarke); prov. Canara, in oryzetis prope Mangalore (Hohen- 
Ke nn. 24, 66 partim. Zeylania (Thwaites n. 2979). Java (Zollinger 
- 101). 
E, Hohenackeri ; foliis oblongis, parum acutis; spathis minoribus, 
minus acuminatis, seminibus 2 mill. — Commelina nov. sp., Steud.! 
m PL. Hohenack. n. 1066. | 
Montes Nilagirici (Hohenacker). 
2l. €. persicariæfolia (Wight in Wall. Cat. n. 8984 non DC); 
diffusa, glabriuscula ; foliis magnis, petiolatis, ovato-lanceolatis ; semi- 
nibus oblongis, teretibus, levibus obscure undulato-rugosis. C. palu- 
dosa, latifolia, Burm. Thes. Zeyl. p. 69, tab. 20, fig. 2; Moon Cat. 
