315 



round striated, internodes marked on one side with a pubescent 

 line: lower leaves linear-acuminate^ upper lanceolate-acute, all 

 stem-clasping : flowers terminal, dichotomously panicled, few : 

 pedicels and branches of the panicle with rounded, cucuUate bracts : 

 fertile stamens 3 : anthers purple , fertile filaments only bearded, 

 gland bearing: filaments naked. 



Southern Concan. 



(9) A. SEMITEEES. (Bok.) 



Ident Dalz. 1. c. 



Syn. Dichoespermum juncoides, Wight's Icon. t. 2078. 



Spec. Chae. Stem erect, simple, round, smooth, leaves few, 

 subulate, fleshy, half round, sheaths entire : flowers terminal, and 

 from the axils of the uppermost leaf dichotomously panicled, few : 

 peduncles and pedicels red : floral sheaths truncate, one toothed : 

 filaments united at the base. 



"Western Coast. 



(10) A. mBEEosuM. (Sam.) 



Ident. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5207.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. 255. 



Syn. Commelyna scapiflora, Roxb. flor. Ind. I. 175. Murdania 

 scapiflora, Royle. 



Engram. Wight's Icon. t. 2073. 



Spec Chak. Eoot perennial, composed of several smooth, 

 elongated tubers : stem none, except the sheathing bases of the 

 leaves, which appear after the flowers: leaves ensiform, waved, 

 acute, smooth : racemes radical, erect, straight, smooth : scape 

 branched above : branches each with a sheathing Ijract : branchlets 

 with several pedicelled blue flowers, rather large. 



Southern Concan. 



(11) A. LATTFOUUM. (R.W.j 



Ident. Wight 1. c. and t. 2072. 



Spec. Chae. Erect, glabrous : leaves sessile, broad-ovate, cor- 

 date, stem-clasping, acute, netted beneath, when dry, with brown 

 veins : sheaths short, glabrous : panicles terminal, rather difiPase : 

 bracts minute : outer sepals lanceolate, inner ones obovate or sub- 

 orbicular : filaments all bearded : capsule 3-ceUed, with 3 — 4-seeds 

 in each cell, seeds angular smooth, depressed above. 



Western slopes of the Neilgherries. 



