374 CLX. COMMBLINACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Commelina. 



by its hairyness. A variety ($. glochidea Keen. mss. Wall. Cat. 8981 5. {in part) 

 has elliptic-lanceolate scabrous or nearly glabrous leaves. 



18. C. appendiculata, Clarke Gomm. & Cyrt. Beng. 13 ; Monogr. 

 186 ; leaves sessile linear or Unear-lanceolate, spathes very long-pednncled 

 lanceolate deeply cordate complicate, seeds oblong smooth appendaged at 

 both ends, or in the dorsal cell smaller or 0. C. communis var. acuminata. 

 Wall. Oat. 8978 K. 0. alba, Hwm. mss. — Commelina, sp. 4, Herh. Ind. Or. 

 Hf.SfT. 



NoKTHEEN Benoal, JSamilton; MTMENaiNQH, Clarice. Sikkim Himaiaya ; 

 foot of the hills, J. D. H., Clarke. SuHBl, Clarke. Cexlon, Macrae, Ifc. 



Diffusely branched, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves 4-6 by |-| in., narrowed at both ends, 

 nearly glabrous. Spathes 2-3 in., glabrous without, hairy within, striate, caudate- 

 acuminate, base cordate; raceme 2-M. Petals blue or white. Capsule 2- or 

 3-celIed (the dorsal often 0). Seeds somewhat flattened, nearly black, appendages 

 conical. 



Sect. 6. SPATHODlTHyBOs. OapsMZe 2-celled. (See also 0. appendiculata.) 



19. C. suffruticosa, Blume JEnum. 3 ; stem stout, leaves large 

 sessile lanceolate scabridly pubescent, spathes small shortly peduncled 

 broadly ovate-cordate between cucuUate and complicate, seeds ellipsoid 

 rugose. Ola/rke Comm. 8f Cyrt. Beng. 12 ; Monogr. 188, t. 2, f. 5. 0. 

 semiovata. Wall. Oat. 8985 C, B. 0. Simsoni & 0. rugulosa, Clarke in 

 Joum. Linn. Soc. Bot, xi. 446. Spathodithyros sufEruticosus, Sassh. 

 Comm. Ind. 11. 



Tropical India from Nepal, Sikkim and Bengal to Central India and the 

 Malay Peninsula. — Disteib. Malay Islds. 



Stem branched, nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-14 by f— 2 in,, acuminate ; sheaths 

 auricled. Spafhes ^— J in. long and broad, longer than their peduncle, panioled 

 or clustered, acute or obtuse, villous ; raceme simple, 6-12-fld. Petals white or 

 blue. (Seeds straw-colrd., puberulous. 



20. C. ensifolia, Br. Frodr. 269 ; leaves linear-lanceolate, spathes 

 very shortly peduncled broadly ovate acute cucullate, seeds ellipsoid 

 smooth. Clarke Monogr. 188 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 83 (m part). 0. 

 striata, Wall. Cat. 8981 (in part). 0. lunata, Seyne mss. Commelina sp. 

 striatsB affinis, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 90. 



Deocan Peninsula, Rattier, &c. Cetlon, Walker, &c. — Disteib. Australia. 



Stem 12-18 in., slender. Leaves 2-4 by J— J in., glabrous, or with deciduous 

 hairs, or villous. Spathes |— § in., glabrous or hairy, base truncate on one margin, 

 hooked at the other ; raceme simple. 



DOITBTEUI. AND INDETEEMINABLE SPECIES. 



C. AVEN^FOIIA, GraJi. Cat. Bomb. PI. 224 ; leaves sparsely hairy, sheaths hairy, 

 spathes truncate. — Bombay, near Kandalla. 



C. NiMMONiANA, Q-rah. 1. c. j small, leaves linear acuminate discoloured. — 

 Bombay, on Malabar hill and near Rosa and EUora. 



C. ZEYIANICA, Falkenh. in Just. Jahresh., iv. 406, 408, name only. 



C. coMMiTNis, Linn, and C. bengalensis, Linn., of Dalzell & Gibson Bomb. 

 Flor. are undeterminable from the descriptions. 



3. ANEII.i:]yEA, Br. 



Simple or branched, often tuberous rooted herbs. Flowers in axillary 

 and terminal panicles, bracteate and bracteolate ; bracts not spathaceous. 



