172 MONOCOTYLEDONE 4. COMMELINA. 
PI. Ceyl. p. 5, non Blume. C. Benghalensis, Wall. Cat. 8980. H, non 
Linn. C. communis, Wall. Cat. 8978, N, non Linn. 
Folia longa 8-12 cent., lata 3-5 ‘/, cent., acuminata, basi rotundata, 
viridia, glabra aut minute pubescentia; petiolus evolutus, interdum 
2 cent. Pedunculi 2-3 cent., patentes. Spathæ 2-2 !/, cent., sparsæ, 
complicatæ nec cucullatæ, virides haud transversim striatulæ, hasi 
subtruncate. Capsule oblongæ, obtusæ. 
Indiæ Orientalis peninsula (Rottler); in montibus Dindygul (Wight). 
Zeylania ( Reynaud). 
6, geniculata; foliis anguste oblongo-lanceolatis. C. communis, 
Wall. Cat. 8978, N. var. geniculata. 
Burma ; Pagamew in collibus Segain (Wallich). 
52. C. attenuata (Kon. ms.; Vahl Enum. 2, p. 168); ceespitost; 
foliis parvis, anguste lanceolatis; spathis pedunculatis oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis, basi auriculatis; ovario 4-ovulato; capsule seminibus 4. ? 
vel 1, subglobosis, levibus, apice basique truncatis albide appendi- 
culatis. C. communis, Wall. Cat. 8978 (exclus. plur. specim. incaute 
mixis et distrib.). C. Rajmahlensis, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Lim. 
Soc. 11, p. 444, Commel. et Cyrt. Beng. tab. 7. C. repens, Roxb. et 
Heyne! ms. . i 
Rami foliaque glabri aut hirsuti. Folia longa 3-4 cent., lata '/;"/ 
cent., parum acuta. Pedunculi '/,-1 cent., glabri aut pubescentes. 
Spathæ 1-3 cent., sparsæ, complicatæ nec cucullatæ, angustæ, acute 
sæpe caudate, longitudinaliter striatæ haud transversim striatul&. 
glabræ aut pubescentes, basi auriculis subrhomboideis alte cordatæ. 
Racemi inferioris stipes '/, cent., superioris capsulæ 2-3. Flores parv. 
cærulei. Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis 2-ovulatis. Capsula modo 
4-sperma, complanata, circumscriptione oblonga subquadrata, Y 
medio haud constricta, seminibus 1 */, mill., æque longis ac latis, fer 
C. salicifoliæ sed minoribus; modo 2-sperma, 1-locularis seminibus 
2 superpositis, latioribus quam longis; modo 1-sperma, semine 
2-2 '/, mill., fere globoso. Semina straminea aut cinerea, appendici- 
lis alveolatis terminata. — C. Hasskarlii affinis ; C. attenuata differt 
ovulis 4 nunquam (?) 5, seminibus appendiculatis, 2-3 ssepius abor 
tivis. - 
Indiz Orientalis peninsula ; in aridis vulgaris, a Madras ad Naf 
pore et Rajmabal, alt. 100-1000 met. Zeylania (Walker). 
