317 



paired, opening in succession, longish peduncled, sepals Hneai 

 obtuse, petals obovate, exceeding tbe sepals : filaments all glabrous, 

 fertUe stamens about twice the length, of the sterile ones, capsule 

 oblong pointed, cells about 6-seeded iu a single row. 



Quilon. P^ulghaut. Flowering in. October. 



(16) A. VAGiNATA. (R. Br.) 



Ident. E. Br. in "Wall. List. No. 5212. 



Syn. Commelyna vaginata, Linn. 



Engra/o. Wight 1. c. t. 2076. 



Spec. Chas. Procumbent, diffuse, rooting at the joints,' glabrous: 

 leaves sheathing at the base, linear : peduncles lateral and terminal, 

 enclosed in a sheath, 1 -flowered, but sometimes 3 flowers from one 

 common sheath : sepals lanceolate : petals orbicular : 2 stamens 

 fertile, 4 sterile antherless, all the filaments glabrous : capsule 

 orbicular, 3-ce]led : cells one-seeded : oval compressed, somewhat 

 rugous on the margin, depressed on the back : flowers small, blue. 



Coromandel. Bengal. Flowering in the rainy season. 



GElSrUS III. DITHTEOCAEPUS. 

 Hexandvia Monog'yiiia. Sex: Systi 



Beriv. From LitJiuros, double, and Kwrpos, fi:uit. 



Gen. Chae. Flowers more or less regular : sepals 6, free, 

 persistent : outer ones navicular, inner ones larger, petaloid : 

 stamens 6, hypogynous, beardless, three shorter opposite the inner 

 sepals : anthers 2-ceIled, all fertile : ovary stalked, 2-ceUed, ovules 

 solitary : style elongated : stigma sub-capitellate : capsule shortly 

 stalked, compressed didymous, 2-ceUed, 2-valved: seeds solitary, 

 truncate conical, farrowed lengthways. — Herbs creeping at the base, 

 branches simplej erect : leaves undivided : sheaths entire : panicles 

 terminal, solitary, simple or branched, bracteate : flowers pedioelled, 

 sub-racemose, unilateral, small. 



(1) D. PANicuiATTjs. (Kunfh.) 

 Kunth. Enum. pi. iv. p. 79. 

 Syn. D. Eothii, R. W. — Tradescantia paniculata, Roxb.flor. Ind. 



n.p. 119. 



Mgrav. Koxb. Cor. II. t. 109.— Wight's Icon. t. 2080. 



