rent line of hairs from the insertions of the leaves, 
leaves scarcely sheathing, sessile, ovato-lanceolate, 
sub-acute : flowers axillary, two or three from each 
axile, filaments glabrous, capsule ovate, cells about 8- 
seeded, in 2 rows. 
Quilon, Oetober to December, in low wet ground. 
2079. DirHYRocARPUS PETIOLATUS (R. W.), as- 
cending, sparingly ramous : leaves sheathing, elliptico- 
lanceolate aeute, tapering at the base into a longish 
petiol; sheath inflated, eiliate on the margin: panicle 
terminal; branches racemose, flowers seeund and, 
with the rachis, villous. 
Neilgherries. I am still uncertain whether I ought 
to consider this a distinet species or a mere form of 
D. Rothii. All the three species here represented are 
very like, and if really species prove this to be a 
very natural genus, but still the differences seem such 
as to preelude their being united, certainly not until 
we have had opportunities of studying them better 
than I have had it in my power to do. The Anei- 
lema hispida of Wallich’s list certainly belongs to 
this genus. 
2080. Dirurrocarrus Rorun (R. W., Trades- 
cantia paniculata, Roth. not Roxb.), stem creeping at 
the base, ereet at the apex : leaves sheathing, lanceo- 
late, acuminate; sheaths ciliately woolly: panicle 
terminal, somewhat globose, compact ; branches race- 
mose, many-flowered, densely villous, viscid, anterior 
petal much narrower, sub-spathulate : filaments glab- 
rous: stigma obtuse: capsule 2-celled, with a single 
sub-lentieular seed in each. 
Neilgherries, Ceylon? Roth remarks that his plant 
does not correspond with Roxburgh’s figure, but I 
think his description corresponds with mine; which 
is certainly not Roxburgh’s plant, so far at least as 
can be made out from his figure and description. 
The figure differs in the form of the leaves and 
sheath (which is woolly on the margin), in the com- 
position of the panicle, which as shown by him is 
distinctly compound, each branch panicled, while in 
mine they are racemose. In his the calyx is said 
to be simply hairy while here it is shaggy and viscid. 
I cannot so well compare the flowers as my drawing 
is made from a dried plant, and may not be so cor- 
rectly represented as in his. Roth describes the cap- 
sule as 3-celled, perhaps a typographical error. 
2080. DiTHYROCARPUS UNDULATUS (R. W.), as- 
cending: leaves ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, waved 
on the margin, sheathing: sheaths large inflated, the 
throat thickly beset with coarse bristly hairs: pani- 
cles terminal, branches racemose : calyx shaggy, vis- 
cid, lobes obovate obtuse: odd petal narrow obtuse 
sub-euniate: style filiform, curved: stigma simple: 
capsule 2-celled, 2-seeded. 
Station. I am uncertain whenee I obtained this 
plant. It ís nearly allied to the preceding, but I think 
certainly distinct, its whole aspect being so different. 
The leaves and sheaths externally are glabrous, but 
& line of hairs extends down the stem from the 
woolly margins of the sheaths. 
2081. STREPTOLIRION VOLBUILE (Edgeworth, Lin- 
nean Trans.) 
Iam uncertain now whence I obtained the plant 
from which the drawing was taken, but I think from 
Assam, about 15 years ago, at which time the draw- 
ing was made. I shall somewhat abridge Mr. Edge- 
worth's description of the plant which is very full. 
Glabrous, twining ; stems rooting at the base : leaves 
cordate acuminate, long petioled; petiols sheathing 
at the base; sheaths truncated, ciliate: racemules 
axillary and terminal, 2-6-flowered : floral leaves 
becoming modified, losing their sheaths, the petiols 
shortening or disappearing and the limb changing to 
cordato-ovate, acute or folded: upper flower of the 
raceme often sterile: bracts lanceolate, delicately 
membranous: three exterior lobes of the perianth 
elliptic aeutish ; interior ones linear, a little dilated at 
the apex : stamens six, filaments bearded, with yellow 
hairs above the middle; anthers versatile, cells hori- 
zontally divaricated: ovary tapering into the style; 
stigma eapitate, puberulous: capsule ovate, 3-celled, 
3-valved ; cells 2-seeded : seed slightly angular, ru- 
gosely furrowed. 
This genus differs but little except in habit from 
Tradescantia. The perianth is the same with the 
exception of the petals being smaller than the sepals 
and the filaments in both are bearded and all the 
anthers polleniferous. The form of the anthers how- 
ever is peculiar in so far as they resemble in form 
the sterile anthers of Aneilemas. The habit is very 
distinct, and, added to the above differences, well 
entitles this plant to form the type of a distinct 
genus. It ranks between Aneilema and Tradescan- 
tia rather than between Tradescantia and Cyanotis 
on account of the anthers forming an easy transition 
from the one to the other. 
2082. Cyanotis CRISTATA (Rem. and Sch., Com- 
melyna cristata, Lin., not Burm. Fl. Ind. tab. 7. f. 4. 
Tradescantia imbricata ? Roxb.), lower part of the 
stem diffuse, creeping; floriferous extremities ascend- 
ing or erect, marked with attenuate pubescent lines 
deeurrent from the sheaths of the leaves and sprinkled 
with long hairs: leaves sessile, succulent, ovato-lan- 
ceolate, glabrous, slightly ciliate: spikes terminal, 
seeund, progressively lengthening from 2 to 12-15 
pairs of braets: braets lanceolato-falcate, imbricate, 
each supporting a flower: flowers small, scarcely ex- 
serted, sepals laneeolate aeute, pubeseent, petals con- 
nate to near the apex, limb obtuse : stamens scarcely 
exserted, filaments simple, bearded: style glabrous : 
stigma capitate : capsule ovate, cells 2-seeded. 
Bolamputty Hills, frequent in woods, flowering 
November and December. I have extended the 
character of this plant under the impression that 
more than one species is confused under this name. 
My plant seems to correspond sufficiently well with 
Linnæus' figure in the Flora Zeylanica, but not with 
Burmann's, in the Flora Indica, of which also, I think, 
I have specimens, a figure of which is given in plate 
No. 2088. 
2083. Craworis PILOSA (Rem. and Sch., Trades- 
cantia pi Willd. Herb.), stems scapose, procum- 
bent, spreading, somewhat branched and, with sheaths 
and under surface of the leaves, more or less floccose : 
radical leaves long linear, obtuse, villoso-ciliate : stem 
leaves like the radical ones, but smaller: spikes ter- 
minal, secund, aggregated, few-flowered : bracts fal- 
cate, calyx woolly, lobes lanceolate acute, filaments 
densely bearded, not tumid at the apex: ovary 
pilose ; style bearded : stigma clavate : capsule small, 
cells 2-seeded. 
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