Aneilema.] cli. commelinace^e. 357 
long. Seeds i in a cell. Hab. Sandy places among coconuts, and 
open heaths. Singapore, Telok Kurau. Johor, Tanjong Surat 
(Feilding). Pahang, Rumpin River. Tringganu (Yapp). Lankawi 
(Curtis). Setul, Heaths (Ridley). Distrib. India, China. 
(8) A. protensum, Wall. Cat . 5218; Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. 
iv. 84. A. scaberrimum, Kunth. Emm. iv. 69. (Fig. 204, p. 356.) 
Weak herb, 2 ft. tall, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate acuminate 
acute, narrowed to petiole, 4 to 6 in. long, *5 to 1 in. wide; petioles 
5 in long; sheaths *5 in. long, mouth ciliate. Panicle very lax, 
spreading widely, slender, 4 in. long. Upper bracts cup-shaped. 
Sepals small ovate. Petals white. Stamens 5, 2 with linear 
anthers, 1 anther reniform, 2 bifurcating with two yellow balls 
at tip. ’ Pistil densely grey-hairy. Capsule sub-globose, densely 
covered with hooked adhesive bristles -i in. long. Seeds 3. Hab. 
Damp spots in forest. Rare. Pahang, Telom (Ridley). Distrib 
India, Ceylon, Malay isles. 
(9) A, subovatum Ridl. 
Weak creeping herb about 8 in. tall; stem branched, slender, 
with petioles and back of leaves pubescent. Leaves thinly herbace¬ 
ous ovate, or lanceolate acuminate, base narrowed; 3*5 in. long, 
1-25 in. wide, more or less crowded at the branch ends, main nerves 
very fine, 2 pairs; petioles -25 in. long. Panicle slender and few 
branched! 1*5 in. long. Flowers few distant; pedicels *i in. long. 
Calyx and corolla in flower not seen. Capsule pendent, -i in. long, 
obovate. Sepals broad oblong blunt, as long as the capsule. Hab. 
Lankawi, Telok Apan (Haniff). Distrib. Andaman Islands (Kurz), 
Annam, Angkor (Godefroy). Borneo, Banjermassin (Motley). 
Clarke has written this up at Kew and quoted the Andaman and Annam 
plants as A. ovatum. Wall., a much bigger and more robust plant with large 
leaves and numerous racemes, and the sepals in fruit narrow lanceolate and 
much shorter than the capsule. 
(10) A. conspicuum Kunth. Enum. iv. 69; Ridl. Mat. ii. 119. 
A. imberbe Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 389. 
Stems stout, leafy, erect, 18 in. tall. Leaves lanceolate acumin¬ 
ate at both ends, petiolate, 5 to 8 in. long, 1-25 to 2-25 in. wide, 
glabrous; sheaths 1-5 in. long. Panicle wide spreading, 2 to 4 in. 
long, sessile terminal. Flowers -24 in. across, violet. Stamens 
not bearded. Capsule globose, -13 in. long. Seeds 1 in a cell. 
Hab. In forest. Pahang, Kwala Tembeling. Malacca, Bukit 
Sadanen (Derry). Perak, Temengoh. Penang, Pulau Betong 
(Curtis). Kelantan, Kwala Lebir (Ridley). Distrib. Burma, Siam, 
Java, Sumatra. Native name: PokoTampoh Kalin. Use: Medicinal. 
4 . CYANOTIS, Don. 
Branched, often creeping herbs. Leaves linear or oblong am- 
plexicaul. Flowers in dense scorpioid cymes in a double row or 
