3 1 o CoimnelinacecE. \Cyanotis. 



glabrous, staminodcs o ; ov. 3-cclled, cells i-ovuled ; capsule 

 subc^lobosc, \ in. diam., glabrous, shining, 1-3-secdcd ; seeds 

 compressed or hemispheric, coarsely pitted, white. 



Shady places in moist region to 3000 ft. or more ; rather common. 

 Fl. Sept. 



Also in S. India and Assam. 



Clarke (1. c.) quotes also for this C. P. 2326, which is Commelma 

 obliqua. 



10. A. protensum, Wall. Cat. n. 5218 (1828). 

 Thw. Enum. 322. Clarke, Mon. 219. C. P. 3026. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 382 {A. scaberrhnuiii). Wight, Ic. t. 2071 {Dictyo- 

 spermum protenstwi). 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout or slender, erect, branched, leafy, 

 glabrous or pubescent, lower nodes geniculate, with stout 

 tortuous root-fibres ; 1. 3-6 by f-i^ in., lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, scaberulous on both surfaces, 

 costate, veins slender, base rounded or narrowed into a short 

 broad petiole, sheath |-i in., loose, hispidulous, mouth ciliate; 

 panicle up to 10 in. long and broad, effuse, long-peduncled, 

 branches long, slender, spreading ; bracts obliquely truncate, 

 persistent, bracteoles distant, minute, funnel-shaped, 1-3-fld., 

 persistent ; fl, few at the ends of the branches, \ in. diam., 

 pedicels \-\ in.; sep. broad, concave, spreading or reflexed; 

 pet. orbicular; stam. 2-3, staminodes 3-4, head semi-lunar, 

 fil. of all naked ; ov. 3-celled, cells i-ovuled, style very long, 

 slender ; capsule \ in. diam., globose, hirsute, crowned by the 

 long persistent style, coriaceous, not shining; seeds iV in. 

 long, broadly oblong, plano-convex, reticulately foveolate, 

 white. 



Low country ; rare. Kukul Korale ; Matale East. Fl. Dec, June. 

 Also in Travancore, E. Bengal, Malay Archipelago. 

 Clarke, in Mon. 204, quotes the name A. protefisia/i, Thw. und&x A. 

 zeylanicuin, but the C. P. number here. 



A. scapiflorutn, Wight, is erroneously given as a Ceylon plant in the 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. (vi. 375). 



A. szntcum, Lindl., is also given as a native of Ceylon (Fl. B. Ind. vi. 

 379). Wight's figure of it, t. 2075 {A. seciindmn, Wight), so closely 

 resembles A. itudifloruni, var. /e?'iiiinalL\ as to suggest some confusion 

 with that plant. 



4. CYANOTIS, Do/i. 

 Annual or perennial herbs; 1. linear or linear-oblong, 

 sessile ; fl. in axillary and terminal scorpioid bracteate cymes, 

 enclosed in large more or less falcate closely imbricating 

 bracteoles, in C. axillaris cymes, reduced to axillary fascicles of 

 fl. in the 1. sheaths; sep. 3, oblong or lanceolate, free or 



