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Very different from Z. suffruticosum or enneaspermum, which are cer- 
tainly one and the same species. The present plant has no branches, 
much longer and proportionally narrower leaves, and larger flowers of 
a deep orange-red, while in I. suffruticosum they are rose-coloured ; but 
the best distinctions are in the number of seeds, and in the form of the 
lateral petals, which in Z. suffruticosum are acuminated from the middle, — 
while in the present species they are nearly as broad at the apex as at 
the base, blunt, and furnished with a mucro. This species stains paper 
yellow. As I gathered this on the borders of Heyne’s region, and as 
it agrees remarkably well with the description of Viola erecta, Roth, 
Nov. PL Sp. (with the exception of “flores exigui," which is of no 
moment, as that depends on soil and other circumstances), I have little 
hesitation in believing this to be Heyne’s plant, and that to give Viola 
erecta as a synonym for Z. enneaspermum is an error. | 
Nat. Ord. COMMELYNEZE. 
Cyanotis adscendens, Dalz.; caulibus e radice tuberoso pluribus ad- 
scendentibus simplicibus basi ad nodum infimum radicantibus tereti- 
bus striatis nitentibus alternatim linea pilosa instructis, foliis lineari- 
ensiformibus aeutis glabris carnosis recurvis basi vaginatis vagina 
brevi integra glabra vel pilosa, pedunculis axillaribus terminalibusque _ 
elongatis, axillaribus solitariis v. geminis, terminalibus ex folio su- 
premo quinis umbellatis, capitulis involuto-spicatis multifloris 
(30 fl.) folio brevi suffultis, bracteis floralibus biserialibus imbricatis — 
faleatis obtusis ciliatis. 
Tubera cylindrico-oblonga. Caulis sesquipedalis. Folia 2-3 poll - 
longa, 2-24 lin. lata.. Pedunculi 1-3 poll. longi. Calycis lacinie 
lineares, acutæ, dorso pilosæ. Corolla 3 lin. longa. Filamenta co- 
rolla duplo longiora; antheræ flavæ. Ovarium 3-lobatum, adpresse _ 
pilosum ; semina in quoque loculo 2, rugosa, nitida.— Crescit circa 
Belgaum, in graminosis humidis frequens. 
This species resembles C. pilosa (Roem. et Schult.) in its inflorescence 
and its roots, but differs otherwise considerably, as there is no tuft of 
elongated radical leaves in this plant to approach it to C. tuberosa 
(Reem. et Schult.) in the slightest degree, the longest leaf never ex- - 
ceeding three inches. The flowers are of a lovely blue, and. come out 
in succession, and in great numbers, during the whole rainy season. 
