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Spec. Chae. Eoot fibrous ; stems branched, creeping ; branchlets 

 marked with a line of hairs ; leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, rounded at the base ; margin waved ; spathes opposite 

 the leaves, rounded cordate, acute, folded, smooth, with roughish 

 margins; peduncles in the spathe 2, the longer one 1 -flowered, the 

 shorter 3-flowered : flowers bright blue. 



Common everywhere, flowering in the rains. 



(2) C. Benghalensis. (Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. 1. c— Dalz. 1. c. 253.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. 171. 



Syn. C. cucullata, Linn. Mwnt. 176. — C. nervosa, Bwrm. 



Engrm. "Wight's Icon. t. 2065. Burm. Ind. t. 7, fig. 3. 



Spec. Chae. Stem branched, creeping, hairy, leaves petioled, 

 ovate-elliptic or cordate-acute, puberulous on both sides : sheaths 

 hairy, with the mouth ciliated : spathes shortly-peduncled, cucullate, 

 turbinate, acute : peduncles twin in each spathe, shorter one 

 2-flowered, the longer hairy, one-flowered : flowers bright blue. 



Common everywhere, flowering in the rains. 



(3) C. SAXioiFOMA. (Roxb.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 172. 



Syn. C. pedunculosa. Link. 



Spec. Chae. Stem branched, creeping: leaves sessile, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, glabrous on both sides, scabrous at the margin : 

 sheaths ciliated at the mouth : spathes leaf-opposed, cordate, narrow- 

 acuminate, folded, glabrous : peduncles in the spathe twin, enclosed, 

 somewhat 3-flowered, exserted one 1 — 2-flowered, slightly hairy: 

 flowers polygamous, azure. 



Coromandel. Bengal. Flowering in the rainy season. 



(4) C. csspiTOSA. (Roxb.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 174. 



Spec. Chae. Polygamous : creeping : leaves lanceolate : spathe 

 cordate, peduncled, few-flowered : petals nearly equal : capsules 

 3-celled : cells 1 — 2-seeded, flowers blue. 



Chittagong. 



