Aneilema,'] olx. commblinace;e. (J. D. Hooker.) 377 



efEuse, bracts maroesoent, capsule ellipsoid or subglobosely trigonous, cells 

 3-4-seeded, seeds smooth. Sobssh. PI. Jung. 146, Commelin. Ind. 36 ; 

 Clarke Oomm. & Oyrt. Beng. t. 15. A. elatum, Kunth I. c. 70 ; Bala, in 

 HooJc. Jowrn. Bot. 1857, 137 ; Daln. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 254. A. latifolium, 

 Wight lo. t. 2072. A. herbacenm, Wall. Cat. 5223 ; Cla/rke Monogr. 204 ; in 

 Jowrn. Linn. 8oe. Bot. xi. 448 (var. a). Commelina herbacea, Jloxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 175, Fd. Wall. & Carey i. 179. 0. lineolata, Blume Enum. i. 3. 0. 

 elata, Vahl Enum. ii. 178. Tinantia? lineolata, Hassk. PI. Jav. 98. 

 Prionostaohjs herbacea, Sassk. mss. 



Teopical India ; from Sikkim, Bhotan and the Khasia hills, alt. 2-4000 ft., 

 to Btjema. Western Ghats from the Conoan to Travauoore. — Disteib. Malay- 

 Islands. 



Boot of slender tubers. Stem erect, stout. Leaves 4-12 by l-lj in., margins 

 scabrous or smooth often crisped, base cuneate rounded or cordate, upper ovate- 

 lanceolate. Panicle stout, glabrous, branches spreading and ascending ; bracts 

 marcescent in fruit. Petals blue. Stamens 2-3 with 2 or 3 staminodes, filaments 

 all bearded. Capsule \ in. diam., mucronate. Seeds reticulate, glandular- 

 puberulouB. 



9. Ai esculentum, Wall. Oai. 5208; root tuberous, stem subsolitary, 

 leaves linear complicate, panicle glabrous spreading, bracts oblong or the 

 lower 1-2 foliaceous, capsule ellipsoid, cells 3-6-seeded. Clarke Monogr. 

 206. ? A. melanostictum, Sance in Seem. Jowrn. Bot. 1869, 167. Com- 

 melina esculenta, Seyne mss. 



Madeas ; in rice fields, Beyne, Wight. Cetlon, Walker. — Distkib. Australia, 

 China. 



Boot of clavate tubers, crown with imbricating scarious scales. Stem with 

 prostrate suckers. Leaves 3-4 in., recurved, obtuse, almost glabrous. Panicle with 

 alternate branches ; bracts oblong, persistent. Stamens 3 fertile, staminodes 3, 

 filaments bearded. Cofpsule i in. Seeds dark brown, obscurely scabrid or pitted. — 

 Probably the same as the Australian A. graminevm, Br. 



10. Ml- dimorphum, Dalz. in Hooh. Journ. Bot. 1851, 138; root 

 fibrous, stems many, leaves linear-oblong flat, bracts ovate, panicle very 

 short and broad, capsule ellipsoid or oblong, cells 3-5-seeded, seeds smooth. 

 Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 254; Gla/rhe Monogr. 206. A. paniculatum, 

 T^ight Ic. t. 2075. A. scapiflorum, i8, Thwaites Enum. 322 (not of Wight). 

 A. nudiflorum, Mig. in PI. Hohenack. Fxsiec. No. 144 (not of Br.). — An- 

 eilema, sp. Miq. I. c. n. 134. 



The Deccan Peninsula ; from the Concan southward, Wight, &c. Cetlon, 

 alt. 5000 ft., Thwaites. 



Stem slender, branched at the base, 6-12 in. Leaves 1-2^ by J-J in., from 

 oblong to ovate-lanceolate, base rounded or cordate, mouth of sheath ciliate. 

 Panicle sparingly diehotomously branched, few-fld. ; bracts small, encullate, 

 persistent. Petals blue. Stamens 3, fertile, filaments bearded ; staminodes 3, 

 filaments naked. Capsule ^ in., triquetrous, acute. Seeds black, with brown 

 furfuraceous lines. — Wight figures all the filaments bearded, but describes them as 

 above. 



11. A- splratum, Br. Prodr. 271 (in note) ; foot fibrous, stem 

 branched decumbent, leaves small sessile flat oblong, base obtuse or cordate 

 or auricled, panicle small leafy below, bracts ovate, capsule oblong or sub- 

 globose, cells 3-7-seeded, seeds smooth or minutely scaberulous. Clarke 

 Monogr. 207. A. nanum, Kunth Enum. v. iv. 65 ; Wight Ic. t. 2077 ; Sassk. 

 in PI. Jwngh. i. 141 ; Thwaites Ennm. 322 ; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 



