€yanotis.\ Comnieliuacece . 3 1 1 



united at the base; cor, with a campanulate or funnel-shaped 

 tube, formed of the long cohering claws of the pet., and a 

 spreading equally 3-lobed limb; stam. 6, inserted at the base 

 of the cor.-tube; fil, subequal, filiform, contorted in bud, 

 bearded above the middle, fusiform or not beneath the 

 acuminate tip, anth. oblong; ov. 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled, style 

 very slender, bearded or not, fusiform below the acuminate 

 tip, stigma punctiform, ovules superposed, upper erect, 

 lower pendulous; capsule very small, oblong, loculicidally 

 3-valved, 6-seeded ; seeds superposed, subconical, cubical or 

 angular, umbonate at the apex, embryo apical under the 

 umbo, — Sp, 30 ; 16 in Fl. B. Ind, 



The species of Cyanotis are so very variable in habit and pubescence 

 that probably more Sinhalese specimens than I have had access to ar^ 

 ■wanted to describe the following species satisfactorily. 



PI. in scorpioid cymes with large imbricating bracteoles. 

 Fil. fusiformly thickened below the tip. 

 Root-fibres slender. 



Bracteoles dimidiate-ovate, style naked . i. C. cristata. 

 Bracteoles lanceolate, style bearded . . 2. C. obtusa. 

 Root-fibres stout, cylindric, fleshy, style naked 3. C. TUREROSA, 

 Fil. not thickened below the tip, style naked. 



Stem with a single line of hairs . . •4- C, zeylanica. 

 Stem glabrous or hairy all round. 



Cymes all terminal 5, C. villosa. 



Cymes axillary and terminal. 



Pubescence cobwebby . , , , 6. C. fasciculata. 

 Pubescence hairy or hirsute , , . 7. C. PILOSA, 

 Fl. fascicled, bracteoles concealed in the 1. sheaths 8. C. axillaris. 



I. C. cristata, Schultcsf. Syst. vii. 11 50 (1830). Bol.-hinda, S. 



Herm. Mus. 53. Burm. Thes. 94. Fl. Zeyl. n. 32. Clarke, Mon. 

 247. Comineli7ia cristata^ Linn. Sp, PI, 42. Tradescantia cristata, Willd, 

 Moon, Cat, 24. Thw. Enum. 323, C, P. 3217, 



Fl, B. Ind. vi, 385. Linn. Fh Zeyl, t, i, Wight, Ic, t, 2082. 



Stem 6-18 in,, branched from the base, branches 6-18 in,, 

 slender, creeping and rooting below, then ascending, glabrous, 

 ■or with a line of spreading hairs, internodes 1-3 in,; root 

 fibres very slender; 1, rather distant, 1-3 in,, spreading, sessile, 

 ovate-oblong, subacute or obtuse, flat, glabrous or sparsely 

 hairy, margins villously ciliate, base rounded or cordate, upper 

 recurved; sheath short, hirsute; bracts |-iMn,, ovate-cordate, 

 acuminate, cymes ^-i in,, much longer than the bracteoles, 

 scorpioidly recurved, bracteoles 2-seriate, \ in., dimidiate- 

 ovate, strongly falcate, acute, glabrous or ciliate with long 

 hairs ; sep, lanceolate, acuminate ; cor,-tube not much longer 

 Ihan the sep., lobes ovate ; fil. fusiform below the tip ; style 



