APPENDIX I. 23 



COMMELINACEM 1 (C.-B. Clarke). 



Tradescantia multiflora Swartz. 



Fl. Ind. occ. 1, p. 599, nee 3, p. 1971. 



Herba 0,2-0,3. Corolla alba. 



In palude pr. Villeta, Dec, n° 282; inter rupes prope Fort Lopez. Sept., 

 n° 1068. 



Tradescantia fluminensis Velloso. 



Fl. fluni. 140, III, t. 132; T. albiflora Kuntb, Seub. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 



3, pt. 1, p. 250. 



Var. y pubescens C. B. Clarke, in C. et A. DC. Monogr. Phan. III, p. 295. 



Herba erecta 0,2-0,4. Corolla alba. Inter rupes pr. San Bernardino, Aug., 

 n° 796; in déclive rupestre pr. Cerro San Tomas, Sept., n° 997; in rupestribus 

 pr. Cordillera de Altos, Jul., n° 387. 



Tradescantia geniculata Jacquin. 



Enumerat. PI. Carib. 18; C. B. Clarke in A. et DC. Monogr. Phan. III, 



p. 300; T. effusa in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 1, 251, tab. 34. 



Herba 0,3-0,3. Corolla alba. In silvis pr. Cordillera de Altos, n° 388; in rupes- 

 tribus pr. Cordillera de Altos, Jan., n° 1857. 



Commelina vestita Seub. 



In Mart. Fl. Brasil. III, I, 264 (e descript.) ; C. monticola Seub. ß vestita. 



C. B. Clarke, 1. c, p. 162 (Seuberti typum comparare nequivi. In hoc 



exemplo pili inutraque facie folii consimiles videntur. C. B. Cl.) 



Herba 0,1-0,15. Corolla alba, cœrulescens. In campo pr. Paraguari. Sept., 

 n° 982. 



Commelina nadiflora Linn. 



Sp. PI. 4; C. B. Clarke 1. c, p. 144 fere typica. 

 Herba 0,15-0,25. Corolla dilute cœrulea. 

 In palude pr. San Bernardino, Oct., n° 1356. 



Commelina nudiflora Linn. 



Sp. pl. 4; C.B. Clarke 1. c, p. 144. 



Herba 0,3-0,5. Corolla azurea. In pratis et arvis pr. San Bernardino, Sept., 

 n° 1151 p. p. 



06s. But I hâve no example with the spathe so much produced. This example 

 has much the gênerai appearance of the East Indian Commelina salicifolia Boxb., 

 but without ripe fruit and seed I do not undertake to name definitaly these 

 Commelinaceae C. B. Cl. 



1 Rédigé d'après les déterminations de M. C. B. Clarke (R. C). 



