380 CLX. ooirMBLiNiCEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aneilema. 



Petals blue. Siaminodes with glabrous or bearded filaments. Capsule i in. long, 

 mucronate, valves hard polished. 



Sect. II. DicHiKSPEKMTJM. Oells of ovary 4-20-ovnled. Seeds 2-seriate 

 in each cell. 



* Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, pedicels jointed in tlie middle. 



IS. A. Hamiltonianum, Wall. Oat. 5222; stem creeping rooting, 

 leaves linear-oblong flat glabrate, pedicels axillary and terminal fruiting 

 hardly exserted, capsule linear-oblong, seeds scabrid or flocculent biseriate. 

 Clarke Monogr. 213. Diohsespermum Blumei, Sassh. Gomm. Ind. 41. ; 

 Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 27. Tradescantia terminalis, Blume 

 Enum. i. 6. Oallisia orientalis, Serb. Hami. 



UrPBR Gangetic Plain to Assam, in marshes ; Chota Nagpore, Clarice. — 

 DiSTBlB. Java. 



Stem 6-12 in., stout, sparingly branched. Leaves 1^-2 in., sessile, acute or sub- 

 acute, base cuneate. Peduncle ^-\ in., rigid. Petals white or rosy. Mlaments 

 all naked. Capsule J— j in., acute. Seeds about 16 in each cell. 



Var. minor, Clarke L c. 214 ; stems shorter, seeds about 30 in each cell, nearly 

 smooth. — Dichsespermum repens, Clarke Comm. Sf Cyrt. Seng. t. 28 (not of Wight). 

 — Assam, Swimlton. 



19. A. ochraceum, Dalz. in Moolc. Journ. Bot. 1861, 135; stem 

 short erect or decumbent, leaves small flat oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse 

 or acute, base cordate, pedicels axillary fruiting exserted, capsule broadly 

 oblong, seeds angular rugose biseriate. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 253 ; Clarke 

 Monogr. 214, t. 4, f. 3. DicbEespermum repens, Wight Ic. t. 2078 (not of 

 Massk.). D. ochraceum, Sassk. Commelin. Ind. 41. 



The Djscoan PENHfsuiA ; from the Ooucan southwards. Tenasseeim, Gri^^ZiTi, 

 Eelfer. 



Stem 4-8 in., rooting at the lower nodes. Leases f— ^ by i— J in., glabrous or 

 nearly so, bases subamplezicaul . Pedicels i-^ in., slender. Sepals narrow. 

 Petals yellow. Stamens and staminodes 3 each, filaments naked. Capsule i in. 

 long. Seeds 7-8 in each cell, pale yellow. — Dalzell describes the filaments as 

 bearded in the Journal of Botany, but not in the Bombay Flora. 



Var. crocea, Clarke Monogr. 214 ; aquatic, leaves ovate subacute, pedicels solitary 

 or 2-nate, sepals densely pubescent, capsule narrower. A. croceum. Griff". Notul. iii. 

 235. A. piloBum, Wall. Cat. 5219. A. ochraceum, vcbr. Gn&thii, Kurz in Jotim. As. 

 Sac. 1870, ii. 85. — Arracan, Burma and the Andaman Islands. 



20. A. lanug-inosum, Wall. Cat. 5221 ; hirsute or glabrate, stem 

 suberect, leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate acuminate, pedicels ex- 

 serted, flowers large, filaments bearded, capsule oblong acute many- 

 seeded, seeds nearly smooth. Clarhe Monogr. 2i4. Commelina lanuginosa, 

 Seyne mss. 



The Dbccan Peninsula ; from the Concan southwards, in hilly districts, 

 ascending the Nilghiris to 6000 ft. 



Moots of thickened fibres. Stem, 6-16 in., stout, branched. Leaves 1^-2^ in., 

 rigid, deeply grooved when dry, acuminate, strongly striate, usually complicate and 

 recurved, base broad, margins waved. Pedicels bracteolate at the joint. Sepals 

 straw-colrd. Petals yellow, blue when dry. Capsule ^ in., or more. Seeds 

 angular. 



** Flowers panicled. 



