354 cli. commelinace^e. [ Commelina. 
rugose, brown. Hab. Kelantan, Kwala Krai (Haniff). Distrib. 
India, Java. 
The only form collected here is the weak small-leaved form, C. rugulosa, 
C. B. Clarke; the typical plant is much stouter. 
(9) C. obliqua Ham. in Don Prodr. FI. Nepal 45 ; Ridl. Mat. ii. 
116. 
A stout erect plant, over a foot tall. Leaves lanceolate oblique 
acuminate, many nerved, base narrowed to a short petiole, 6 in. 
long, 1-25 to 2 in. wide, sheath 1 in. long, hairy on mouth and edge. 
Spathes numerous crowded in a sub-sessile head, funnel-shaped, 
•5 to 1 in. wide, glabrous or pubescent, edges of spathes hairy. 
Petals blue. Capsule ovoid, 3-edged, nearly *25 in. long. Seeds 
ellipsoid compressed. Hab. Forests in shady spots. Selangor, 
Ginting Bidai at 2,000 ft. altitude. Perak, Temengoh. Perlis, 
Tebing Tinggi (Ridley). Distrib. Indo-Malaya. 
3 . ANEILEMA, Br. 
Herbs, roots often tuberous. Flowers small, axillary and ter¬ 
minal panicles, rarely solitary, pink, white or blue. Bracts not 
spathaceous. Stamens 2 to 4; filaments often bearded. Staminodes 
2 to 4. Ovary 2- or 3-celled, cells 1- to many-seeded. Capsule 
3-valved. Species about 60, Africa and Asia. 
1. Tricarpellaria. 
Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, cells 3- to 6-seeded. 
Stout plant with large leaves . . . . (1) 
Weak decumbent plant; flowers solitary axillary. (2) 
Diffuse creeping herb; leaves ovate . . (3) 
Ovary cells 2-ovuled ; capsule cells 2-seeded. 
Small herb, decumbent; flowers pink . . (4) 
Small herb, tuberous, with long basal leaves; 
flowers lilac ...... (5) 
Tall herb 2 ft. or more tall; flowers large, blue , (6) 
2. Dirtyospermum. Cells of ovary i-ovuled, cells of 
capsule 1-seeded. 
Slender herbs. 
Tufted plant, stem-leaves reduced to sheaths; 
leaves fleshy linear . . . . . (7) 
Weak herb 2 ft. tall; leaves lanceolate petioled; 
panicle lax; fruit adhesive . . . (8) 
Weak herb 8 in. tall; flowers few racemose; fruit 
not adhesive . . . . . . (9) 
Stout herb; leaves 5 to 8 in. long; panicle sessile, 
wide spreading . . . . . . (10) 
A. lineolatum 
A. clandestinum 
A. pauciflorum 
A. nudifloram 
A. sinicum 
A. giganteum 
A. vaginatum 
A. protensum 
A. subovatum 
A. conspicuum 
(1) A. lineolatum Kunth. Enum. iv. 69; Ridl. Mat. ii. 117. 
A. herbaceum Wall. Cat. 5223; Clarke , Monog. 204. 
Stems leafy, stout, 15 in. tall. Leaves, lower ones in a rosette, 
elliptic-lanceolate acute undulate, base round, broad, 6 in. long, 
1*25 in. wide, glabrous; sheaths *5 in. long, hairy. Panicle terminal, 
