388 CLX. COMMELINACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Cyanotis. 
l.c. 100. C. rosea, Wight Ic. t. 2086. C. eriantha and C. disrumpens (in 
part), and C. Thwaitesii, Hassk. l. c. 62, 138, 105, 196. Tradescantia 
fasciculata, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 189. T. rupestris ?, Law in Grah. Cat. 
Bomb. Pl. 223. 
The Deccan PENINSULA; common in rocky places from the Concau southwards. 
CEYLON; abundant in the Central province. 
Annual; roots fibrous. Stem 4-18 in. Leaves 1-2 by i-i in. Bracts about 
twice as long as the small cyme, silky or cobwebby. Petals rose-purple. Filaments 
bearded. o 
A very variable plant, of which there are the three following varieties :— 
B glabrescens (from Belgaum) with linear glabrous leaves, glabrous bracts an 
woolly bracteoles; y rosea (C. rosea, Wight) (from the Bolamputty hills in Travai 
core) (of which no specimens exist in Wight’s Herbarium) with sessile ovate-corda ` 
obtuse leaves according to the description, but linear leaves in the plate; s 
ò Thwaitesii (from Belgaum, Courtallam and Ceylon), with dense divarica 
branches, to which belongs Tradescantia rupestris, Law, and which appears to 
intermediate between C. arachnoidea and fasciculata. Wight describes ia" 
Lawiana and dichotricha as all of them succulent, as does Dalzell his hispida. " 
Lawiana Wight describes the style as simple (not thickened) but figures 1t 
fusiform above. 
Sect. II. DarzELLta. Flowers solitary or in terminal or subterminal 
few-fld. cymules, bracts and bracteoles small not imbricate in 2 series. 
13. C. kewensis, Clarke Monogr. 243, Tab. 5, f. 6; villous, urn 
stout prostrate densely leafy, leaves bifariously imbricate sessile Weg 
cordate acute bright red beneath, sheaths very short, flowers few tor in 
shortly pedicelled, filaments bearded. Belosynapsis kewensis, mE 
Flora, 1871, 959. ' Erythrotis Beddomei, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6150. 
TRAVANCORE; on the Myhendra Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Beddome. «ae below. 
Stem and branches 6-10 in., pendulous, with ascending tips, rooting n dry, 
Leaves 1-1} in., rather fleshy, green and convex above, hairs rufous Ww! “edice 
sheaths 4 in., ribbed, ciliate. Flowers 1-2 together in the uppermost axils ‘th blue 
and 3 ovate sepals hispid; petals free, rose-purple; filaments bearded wi blast 
hairs, anthers yellow; ovary hispid, style filiform naked. Capsule oblong; 
tip villous. Seeds short, obscurely 2-pitted on the inner face. 
14. €. vivipara, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1851, 226; epiphyt 
subscapigerous, radical leaves ensiform, flowering stems numerous "^ 
slender flexuous pendulous with small distant leaves and few very, s 
flowers. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 255; Clarke Monogr. 944. " e 
Dalzellia vivipara, Hassk. in Flora, 1865, 594 ; Commelin. Ind. 161. 
The CoNcaN ; in the Syhadri hills, on trees, Law, Dalzell. ` several, 
Rootstock small with tufts of pilose radical leaves 3-5 by 4-3 in. Scapes small 
rooting and viviparous at the nodes, almost filiform; cauline leaves ve Y blong, 
sheaths very short. Flowers 2-3 on a subterminal peduncle ; bracts T i ` style 
acute; pedicels and sepals villous. Petals white, connate to the mid th. ' 
filiform, naked. Capsule A in. long, oblanceolate. Seeds cylindric, smoot” 
ves; 
Sect. III. Ocureartora. Flowers axillary in the sheaths of the lea 
bracteoles small slender not imbricating. (See also C. villosa.) 
brous 
15. C. axillaris, Roem. & Sch. Syst. vii. 1154; stem elongate ge 
or sparsely hairy, leaves elongate linear or iinear-lanceo ria labrous 
clustered in the short inflated sheaths, filaments bearded, pis er. 244; 
filiform, capsule acute, seeds subcylindric punctate. Clarke Monog 
