82 OXXXI. COMMELYNACER, 
Stamens all perfect. Ovary and capsules 2-celled. . . 4, Froscora. 
Stamens all | gertecs or pat aae to staminodia. Fruit 
ehiscent, usually blue . 6. POLLA. 
No spatha. "Powers spicata: Outer segments herbuceous 
Stamens all perfect. Ovary 3-celled . 6, CAnTONEMA. 
1, CYANOTIS, Don. 
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cate leafy une or gaits or within loose “Jenf-ehes ths. 
ROR nus is ver the tropical regions of Asia and Africa, the only | 
ustralian hi see is a naiki PE one from Ceylon and the Peninsula to to the 
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E annual, with long ee d or shortly ascending branches. 
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together within the short loose leat akathi “Outer perianth-segments | 
nearly 3 lines long, shortly united at the base; inner perianth deep 
blue, the tube slender, eylindrical, longer dnd the outer segments. 
Filaments thickened above a dense tuft of jointed hairs.— Tradescantia 
axillaris, Roxb. Corom. Pl. t. 107 ; Mt hey axillaris, Salisb. in Trans 
Hort. Soc. i. 271; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 62; Cyanotis axillaris, Clarke 
Comm. et Cyrt. uie t. 85 (copied from Bottan): 
N. Australia. Sturts’ Creek, F. Muelle 
Queensland. Elio and Burdekin Rivom Bowman. 
The species isa common Indian one. Salisbury, in giving t the name of - 
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2. COMMELYNA, Linn. 
Perianth-segments all free, 2 of the outer ones larger than the 
third outermost, and one of the i inner frequently differently shaped or 
rfect stamens usually 3, the cer 
2, with deformed anthers. Ovary feelo or rarely 2-celled ; ovules in 
each of 2 cells 2 superposed, gu only in the third smaller cell, or ovules 
lin each of 3 cells, or the 3rd e ell. entirely wanting. ane pei | 
