Cyanotis. ] CLX. COMMELINACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 389 
Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 35; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 956; Benth. FI. 
Austral, vii, 82; Hassk. in Pl. Jungh. i. 154; Commel. Ind. 107; Wall. 
Cat.8996. C. disrumpens, Hassk. l.c. 105 (in part). Commelina axillaris, 
Linn. Sp. Pl. 42. Tradescantia axillaris, Linn. Mant. 321; Roxb. Cor. 
Pl. 5,t.107; FU. Ind. ii. 118. Zygomenes axillaris, Salish. in Trans. Hort. 
Soc. i. 271.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 13. 
Throughout Inpra ; in the plains from the upper Gangetic valley to AssAw and 
southwards to OEvroN.—DrsTRIB. E. Asia, trop. Australia. 
Stem 6-18 in., annual, stout or slender, branched, Leaves 2-6 by 1-1 in., 
acuminate, sheaths ciliate, base broad or narrowed. Petals long-clawed, blue. 
Zon glabrous ; style ovoid below the tip. Capsule + in. long, glabrous; valves 
16. ©. cucullata, Kunth Enum. iv. 107; glabrous or sparsely hairy, 
leaves linear, flowers clustered in the sheaths, filaments nearly naked, 
“psule depressed in the centre with 3 horns, seeds subquadrate pitted. 
Roth Nov. Sp. 189 ; Clarke Monogr. 245, t. 5, È 7. 
The Deccan PENINSULA ; from Canara to Malabar. 
Habit and characters of D. awillaris, but differing in the glabrous filaments and 
reader capsule and shorter broader seeds. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
C. NiLaGinica, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 127; differing according to Hasskarl 
rh C. arachnoidea in its glabrousness, obtuser leaves, denser spikes, and larger 
wers, 
C. KARLIANA, Hassk. l. c. 146; ‘stems creeping 8-12 in. glabrous, leaves 4-2 by 
m: n linear-lanceolate, sheaths purple, cymes 1-3-nate axillary or terminal small 
st Wé by-puberulous, bracteoles few, seeds longitudinally cracked not scrobiculate, 
ve glabrous tip thickened.’’—Poonab, Hugel. 
«Q7 INCERTA, Hassk. l, c. 165; “brown-villous, peduncles 5-nate,” (cymes ?) 
aru Pellately crowded at the top of a common peduncle, bracts "* (bracteoles ?) 7-20 
tate lanceolate acuminate, flowers woolly-villous, style hairy thickened below the 
IP.— Asia, Hugel. 
6. STREPTOLIRION, Eje. 
Plow twining flaccid herb. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-cordate, acuminate, 
Petal, li ew, in axillary and terminal scorpioid cymes. Sepals oblong, ree. 
margi mear, free. Stamens 6, filaments bearded, anthers transverse, cells 
0 Bining the 2-lobed connective. Ovary 8-celled; style filiform, stigma 
enic ciliate; ovules 2 superposed in each cell. Capsule oblong tri- 
8^tous beaked loculicidal, Seeds angular, rugose. 
t. MA volubile, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 90, t. 2; Wight Te. 
961. g Hassk. Commel. Ind. 6; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. 40; Monogr. 
` B. Griffithii, Kurz. Tradescantia cordifolia, Griff. Journ. 268. 
Ae EXTERATE HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 5-9000 ft. UPPER 
» on the Patkoy hills, and MuNN1PORE.—DisrRIB. China. 
branched or more ft., glabrous or sparsely hairy, climbing over bushes, ima 
es ma, often rooting at the nodes. Leaves 4-6 in. diam., base often deeply 2 o re 
rt, m Wi from the base, concentric; petiole 2-5 in., glabrous or puberulous; 8 heat l 
Yellow hare ciliate. Flowers 1 in. diam., white, upper often barren. Filaments D ith 
Y = Capsule i in. long, glabrous or pubescent.—The Khasian specimens 
and a penicilln’ Grieg are more hairy than the Himalayan with villous capsules 
