386 OLX. COMMELINACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Cyanotis. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Kashmir eastwards, ascending to 8000 ft. 
Kuasia Mrs., alt. 4600 ft. Burma & PENANG, Wallich.—DisrRiB. China. — — 
Stems slender, branched, tufted, sometimes bulbiferous. Leaves 1-2 by $-3 0» 
falcate or straight, sessile, acute or acuminate, ciliate, cobwebby beneath. Bracts 
much longer than the cyme. Bracteoles falcately ovate, acuminate. Ovary tipped 
with hairs. Capsule quadrate. Seeds brown.— C. nobilis and glaberrima are very 
large stout forms 1-2 ft. high, with leaves sometimes 6 in. long, common in the 
Khasia hills. 
5. C. tuberosa, Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1153 ; suberect or prostrate, tall, 
stout, glabrous or villous, root of cylindric tubers, radical leaves ousifors 
cauline narrowly oblong, cymes in the axil of a short leafy bract, termina 
often corymbose, bracteoles villous ovate falcate, filaments bearded, T 
tumid, style bearded thickened at the tip, seeds obscurely rugose. Clans 
Monogr. 249; Wall. Cat. 8091; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 256; Hassk. 
Commelin. Ind. 100. C. concanensis, Thomsonii & Stocksii, Hassk. l. H 
144,133, 118. Tradescantia tuberosa, Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. t. 108; Fl. Ind. 
ii. 19.—Oyanotis sp., No. 8, 9, Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. 
The DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the west side, from the Concan to Travancore. nd 
Stem 6 in.—3 ft., suberect or prostrate, hirsute at the base. Leaves, radical wel 
lower cauline, 6-10 by 4-1 in., sessile, often purple beneath, scaberulous. Cynes 
villous, or densely hirsute ; bracts ovate or lanceolate, falcate, shorter than the ce 
bracteoles 4-3 in. Petals blue-purple. Capsule hairy above.—A large coats 
species. i d 
Var. adscendens, Clarke l. c. ; smaller, more glabrous, branches rooting ue 
proliferous at the nodes. C. adscendens, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1858, © V 
Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 255; Hassk. Commelin Ind. 102. C. sarmentosa, C 
Ic. t. 2087 ; Hassk. l. c. 194.— With the type; and at Agra, Jacquemont, 
Nagpore, Clarke. 
6. C. Wightii, Clarke Monogr. 950 ; tall, very stout, suberect, sparsely 
hirsute, leaves very long ensiform, cymes axillary and subcorym s, b 
bracteoles falcately ovate acuminate ciliate, filaments bearded, ^ T, 
thickened below the tip, seeds oblong dotted. C. longifolia, Wig : 
t. 2084. 
SovurH Deccan PENINSULA; Nilghiri and Travancore hills, Wight. 
Stem branched, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves attaining 6-18 by 3-14 in. 
much smaller, narrowed from the base to the tip, ciliate ; sheaths short 
usually much longer and larger than the cyme; bracteoles j in., ciliate. 
oblong, not half so long as the sepals. ` 
but usually 
loose. Bract 
Capsule 
7. C. arachnoidea, Clarke Monogr. 250; suberect, cottony nt 
webby, leaves very variable linear-oblong or lanceolate rather 0 late, 
cymes subsessile terminal and axillary, bracteoles falcately „lance? A 
filaments bearded, style bearded and thickened below the tin. gw? 
oblong, seeds elongate conical obscurely pitted. C. fasciculata, Walt. ?C. 
8990 (for the most part). C. pilosa, Wight Herb. (not Ic. t. 20 dër 
sericea, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 152.—Cyanotis sp., 5, Herb. Ind. Or. 
§ T. Tradescantia lanata and incana, Heyne mss. 
The Deccan PENINSULA; Nilghiri hills, Wight (Kew distrib. 2839). 
Haragam, Z'rimen. bescence- 
Differs from C. Wightii in the soft shining silky or cobwebby H Zu asin 
Trimen's specimens are very robust, with radical leaves 12 by 14-2 in., or i smaller 
the large states of C. Wightii; but those of the Deccan specimens are muc 
and narrower. 
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