Cyanotis.] CLX. COMMELINACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 987 
8. €. pilosa, Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1155; more or less clothed with 
long spreading hairs or nearly glabrous, leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 
cymes subsessile terminal and axillary, bracteoles oblong falcate acute, 
filaments bearded, style bearded and thickened below the tip, capsule 
uadrate, seeds shortly conic obscurely pitted. Wight Ic. t. 2083; Clarke 
onogr. 251: Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 99; Wall. Cat. 8992; Cyanotis sp. 11, 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. Tradescantia pilosa, Heyne mss. 
, The Deccan PENINSULA ; Nilghiri hills, Heyne, Wight, &c. CEYLON; in the 
higher parts of the island. 
abit of (C. arachnoidea, from which it differs in the hairyness and quadrate 
nimis and seeds. The Ceylon are the only good specimens, and they are nearly 
glabrous. 
9. c. villosa, Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1155; silky or villous with 
spreading hairs, leaves narrowly lanceolate or ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 
cymes axillary and terminal, bracteoles small lanceolate falcate or nearly 
straight, filaments filiform, style fusiform below the tip, capsule oblong, 
seeds conical corrugated. Clarke Monogr. 251; Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 
99: Wall. Cat. 8995. C. lanceolata, Wight Ic. t. 2085; Hassk. Le 125. 
Commelina, sp. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.& T. Tradescantia villosa, Spreng. 
Syst. ii. 116. T. ? cyanotidea, Hassk. l. c. 65. 
The Deccan PexINSULA ; on the E. slope of the Nilghiris, Wight, &c. CEYLON, 
ntral province, ascending to 6000 ft. 
_ Stems 3-4 ft., erect trom a procumbent base, succulent, often rooting and pro- 
iferous at the nodes. Leaves 3-5 by }-} in., sessile, shining, green, silkily ciliate. 
Tact twice as long as the cyme; bracteoles 2 in. long. Capsule obtuse. 
10. e. zeylanica, Hassk. Commel. Ind. 145; stem elongate glabrous 
cept a line of hairs, leaves narrowly lanceolate puberulous pilose 
D cymes small terminal subsessile, bracteoles dimidiate-ovate, cap- 
` SUbquadrate, seeds striate and obscurely pitted. Clarke Monogr. 253. 
` Anceolata, Wight, var, subglabra, Thwaites Enum. 323. 
Ston ; Central province, up to 6000 ft., Thwaites. a 
D 7» from C. villosa in the short capsule and striate seeds, glabrous stem an l 
exceed, leaves narrowed at the base. The bracts also are much shorter, hardly 
mg the cyme, 
ll. c. vaga, Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1153; softly hairy, stems elon- 
gate procumbent, leaves oblong-lanceolate, cymes small axillary and 
mina sessile, bracteoles obscurely 2-seriate lanceolate nearly straight, 
Fal, small sub uadrately oblong, seeds closely reticulate and 1-2- 
; reolata, Clarke onogr. 259. Tradescantia vaga, Blume Enum. i. 5. 
f A Fl. Cochinch. i. 239, and Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 62 (not of Zollinger). 
BNASSERIM, Helfer, — . Java, China. , 
cin TI 10-20 in slender a 13-2 by 4-3 in. Bract large. Capsule 
to the, Seeds with two deep clefts or pits. The obscurely biseriate bracts ally 1 
° Section Dalzellia, 
12, € 
punbent, floccosely silky or hairy, leaves linear or lanceolate, cymes 
lanceolat 
e, 
on Ind 
l. ee (in part). ©. dichotricha, Stocks in Wight Ic. 
` C. Lawiana and decumbens, Wight Ic. t. 2086 and 
cc2 
capsule oblong, seeds subrugose. k 
. 122. . , w ^ Lhe b. Fl. 255; Wall. 
122; Wight Ic. t. 2086; Dalz. & Gibs. Bom ES dall. 
2088; Hassk. 
