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Spec. Chab. 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 1 — 2, 

 elongated with several flo-wers corymbosely arranged at the apex : 

 flowers blue. 



Perdnsula, common. Bengal. Silhet. Flowering in the rains. 



(2) A. compeessum:, fBah.J 



Dalz. in Hook. Joum. Bot. III. 138. 



Syn. A. secunda, Wighifs Icon. t. 2075. 



Spec. Chae. Branched at the base and rooting: branches 

 ascending, compressed, simple, smooth: leaves short, hifarious, 

 ensiform, rather obtuse, a little folded : sheaths hispid all round : 

 peduncles terminal, and from the asils of sheathing bracts, 1 inch 

 long : flowers several, shortly-pedicelled, racemose, exterior sepals 

 oblong, obtuse, smooth: interior rounded, rose-coloured, capsule 

 oblong, O.seeded. 



Malwan. AnnamuUay forests. Belgaum. Flowering in August 

 and September. 



(3) A. ocHBACEUM. (Bali) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Stems erect, simple, round, smooth, leafy : lower 

 leaves ovate-oblong, upper cordate-ovate, acute and smaller: pedicels 



6 to 7 together, axillary and terminal, faiscioled, articulated in the 

 middle : flowers ochre-yellow : capsule cartilaginous, smooth : cells. 



7 to 8 seeded : seeds in 2 rows. 



"Wet rooky places in the South Concan. 



(4) A. vEESicoLOE. (Bah.) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Branched : branches erect, round, striated, hispid, 

 with spreading hairs : leaves distant, lanceolate-aouminate, 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-yeUow, twice as large as in the preceding : 

 capsule linear, trigonal : cells 7-seeded : seeds in a single row. 



Malwan. 



