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2. C Bengalensis, Linxi. sp. 60. — Stem branched, creeping, 

 hairy ; leaves petioled, ovate-eUiptic or cordate-acute, puberulous 

 on both sides ; sheaths hairy, witli the mouth cihated ; spathes 

 shortly-peduiicled, cucullate, turbinate, acute; peduncles twin in 

 each spathe, shorter one 2-flowered ; flowers bisexual, the longer 

 hairy, one-flowered ; flower barren. Common everywhere. 



2. ANEILEMA, Brown. 



1. A NuDiFLORUM, Br. Prod. 271. — Stem creeping, branched; 

 branches erect, smooth; leaves linear-lanceolate acute, sheathing 

 and ciliated at the base, smooth on both sides, margins a little 

 rough ; peduncles terminal, i to 2, elongated, with several flowers 

 in a kind of corymb at the apex ; capsules 3-celled ; cells 2-seeded ; 

 leaves2^ to 3 inches long, 2^1inesbroad. Common. Syn. Commelyna 

 nudiflora, Linn. sp. 61 ; Tradescantia malabarica, Linn. sp. 412. 



2. A CoMPRESsuM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 138. — 

 Branched at the base and rooting ; branches ascending, compressed, 

 simple, smooth ; leaves short, bifarious, ensiform, rather obtuse, a 

 little folded ; sheaths hispid all round ; peduncles terminal, and 

 from the axils of sheathing bracts, 1 inch long ; flowers several, 

 shortly-pedicelled, racemose ; exterior sepals oblong, obtuse, 

 smooth ; interior rounded, rose-coloured ; capsule oblong, 9-seeded. 

 Malwan. Very like the preceding; but in this the leaves .are 

 shorter, more fle.shy, diirker in colour, and there are more seeds in 

 the capsule. A secunda, Wight Ic. 2075. 



3. A OcHRACEUM, Dalz. loc. cit. — Stems erect, simple, round, 

 smooth, leafy ; lower leaves ovate-oblong, upper cordate-ovate, 

 acute and smaller; pedicels 6 to 7 together, axillary and terminal 

 fascicled, articulated in the middle ; flowers ochre-yellow ; capsule 

 cartilaginous, smooth; cells 7 to 8-seeded; seeds in 2 rows. In 

 wet, rocky places of the South Concan. Syn. Dichcespermum 

 repens, Wight Ic. 2078 (?). 



4. A Versicolor, Dalz. loc. cit. — Branched ; branches erect 

 round, striated, hispid, with spreading hairs ; leaves distant lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, smooth, stem-clasping, 5 to 7-nerved beneath ; 

 sheaths rather long, a little hispid, furrowed and striated ; pedicels 

 axillary, fascicled, 3 to 4 together ; flowers ochre-yellow, twice as 

 large as in the preceding ; capsule linear, trigonal ; cells 7-seeded ; 

 seeds in a single row. Malwan. These two species are distinguish- 

 ed from all others by having yellow instead of blue flowers. 



5. Pauciflorum, Dalz. loc. cit. — 2 feet high; the whole plant, 

 except the mouth of the sheaths, smooth ; leaves long-linear acumi- 

 jiated, narrow ; sheaths of the lower leaves split, the upper sud- 

 denly transformed into short sheathing floral bracts ; pedicels 1 to 



