312 



(6) C. rrPFUSA. (Burin.) 



Burm. Ind. 18.— Vahl. Enmn. II. 169.— BluraeEn. I. 1. 



Mngrcm. Burm. 1. c. t. 7, fig. 2. 



Spec. Chap.. Creeping, diffuse : leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute : sheaths cUiolate : involucres cordate, leaf-opposed or ter- 

 minal: pedicels unequal, inner one elongated, 1 — 2-flowered, the 

 other 3 — 4-flo'wered. 



Coromandel. 



(6) C. POITSPATHA. f R.W.J 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vi. 1. t. 2066. 



Spec. Chae. Erect : leaves long-lanceolate, acuminate, glahrous 

 on both sides, paler beneath : sheaths with a line of hairs on one 

 side, setosely hairy on the margin and throat : spathes terminal, 

 4 — 8 together, collateral, turbinate, glabrous : pedicel solitary, 

 enclosed, 4 — S-flowered: capsule glabrous, 3-ceUed: cells 1-seeded: 

 flowers light blue. 



Mountains near Coimbatore at 3,000 feet, flowering in November. 



GEFtJS II. ANEILEMA. 



Triandria Mono^ynia. Sex: Syit: 



Bervo. From A, without, and Eilema, a covering, the involucre is 

 wanting. 



Gew. Chae. Flowers somewhat regular : sepals 6, free, three 

 outer ones navicular, unchanging persistent, three inner ones larger, 

 petaloid, deciduous : stamens 6, of which sometimes 3, sometimes 

 2 — 4 are effete, furnished with thick deformed anthers, sometimes 4, 

 of which 2 are sterile : fertile anthers 2-ceUed, conformable, cells 

 parallel, joined by a narrow connectivum : ovary sessile, 3-celled, 

 ovules 2 — 5 in each cell, superposed : style elongated : stigma 

 simple : capsule regularly 3-celled, 3-valved : cells 2-few seeded : 

 seeds sessile, angled, fixed to a short lulum. — ^Branched herbs, erect 

 or diffuse and creeping: leaves resting in an entire sheath: peduncles 

 terminal, corymbosely dichotomous or paniculately branched, brac- 

 teate : flowers solitary, pedicelled : pedicels bracteolate at the base : 

 filaments usually beardless, seldom few or always bearded. 



(1) A. NxronxoEUM. (R. Br.) 

 Berw. E. Brown prod. 271. 



Commelyna nudiflora, Linn. Tradesoantia Malabarica. 



Engrm. Ehcede Mai. ix. t. 63. 



