314 CommelinacecB. [Cyanotis. 



ovate, acuminate; cymes i-| in. long, terminal, sessile or 

 peduncled, rarely axillary; bracteolcs l-§ in. long, dimidiate- 

 ovate, often broadly acuminate, slightly falcate, glabrous or 

 hirsute; sep. lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute; cor. -tube about 

 as long as the sep., lobes ovate-oblong ; fil. not thickened 

 below the tip; style naked; capsule oblong, hirsute; seeds 

 subrugose. 



Moist region, 2-5000 ft. ; rather common. Hantane, Elk Plains, 

 Rangala, Kaputale. Fl. Sept., Oct. 



Also in S. India. 



Thwaites and Clarke cite Wight's figure of his C. lanccolata for this, 

 but I see very little resemblance in the inflorescence between the two 

 plants, that of Wight having axillary cymes with very narrow bracteolcs. 

 The foliage is, however, very characteristic in both. — J. D. H. 



6. C. fasciculata, Schtdtes f. Syst. vii. 1152 (1830). 



Thw. Enum. 323. Clarke, Mon. 253. C. P. 2433 (2978 fid. Clarke). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 387. Wight Ic. t. 2086. 



Floccosely silky or cobwebby; stem 4-18 in., diffusely 

 branched from the base; branches slender, spreading, rooting 

 below, leafy; 1. 1-2 by \-\ in., sessile, linear, linear-lanceolate 

 or narrowed from the base to the tip, acute or acuminate, 

 straight or recurved, cobwebby, rarely glabrate on both sur- 

 faces; cymes \-% in., axillary and terminal, sessile; bracts 

 lanceolate, usually longer than the cobwebby cyme; bracteolcs 

 \-\ in., lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, falcate, acuminate; sep. 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cobwebby; cor.-tube short, lobes 

 ovate, obtuse; fil not thickened below the tip; style naked, 

 capsule \ in., broadly oblong, 3-gonous, angles woolly; seeds 

 oblong, faintly rugose. 



Exposed rocky ground in moist and dry region, and up to 4000 ft. ; 

 common. Fl. March, Oct. ; bright violet-blue. 

 Also in S. India. 



C. Thivaitesii^ Hassk. Comm. Ind. 136 {C. fasciculata, var. 0, Thwaitesii, 

 Clarke, Mon. 21; 2), is described by its author from a specimen com- 

 municated by Thwaites to the Herbarium of M. Lenormand. I find 

 nothing in Herb. Peraden. answering to the description. The pubescence 

 is said to be cobwebby, as in C. fasciculata., from which it dififers in the 

 umbellate cymes, lanceolate bracteoles, and fusiform tips of the fil. — 

 J. D. H. 



7. C. pilosa, Schultcs f Syst. vii. 1155 (1830) (non Wight). 

 Thw. Enum. 323. Clarke, Mon. 251. C. P. 2331. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 387. 



Stem 8 in. by 2 ft., very stout below, subercct or genicu- 

 latcly ascending, dichotomously branched, glabrous, hairy, or 

 villous, lower nodes rooting ; roots of rather flcsliy fibres ; 

 1. sessile, 4-8 by \-\ in., linear, acuminate, flat or subcompli- 

 cate, falcately spreading, glabrous or softly hairy on one or 



