COMMELINACE^. 421 



each cell. Capsule oblong obovoid. Seed 5 to 6 inches 

 in each cell, one-seriate, t. 267. 



Pulneys : on the downs. Fyson 435. Wall. Cat, 5208 C. 

 ' Herb. Heyne.' 



Very close to A. esculentum Wall. (F.B.I. Ill 9) but differs in the 

 roots being long and not fleshy, and the petals larger and more obtuse. 



CY ANOTIS. F.B.I. 160 V. 



Flowers many, in the axils of bracts in a double 

 series forming a scorpioid cyme, with petals and stamens 

 alone exserted. Sepals keeled, lanceolate. Petals joined 

 below into a narrow tube. Stamens six, all perfect, with 

 oblong anthers : filaments bearded with long hairs and 

 thickened at the top. Ovary equally three-celled, each 

 cell with two ovules, one pendulous from the top, the 

 other erect from the base : seeds angular, rough with 

 small pits : embryo at the end furthest from the placenta, 

 with radicle pointing outwards, in fleshy endosperm. 

 Species, 30 to 35 in the warmer parts of the Old World. 

 Stems from the rootstock sprawling flat on open and dry 



ground, grey with cottony hairs . . . . C. arachnoidea. 

 Stems erect or spreading, in the shade of woods, very leafy and 



leaf-margins silky C. villosa. 



Stems erect or spreading in the open „ . . . C. wightii, 



Cyanotis wightii Clarke ; KB. I. vi 386, V 6. Roots 

 thick : stems 2 to 3 feet. Leaves 4 to 18 inches by % to 

 % inch, sparsely hairy. Flower clusters dense, often 

 long-stalked. Upper bractiform leaves M to ij^ inches 

 lanceolate acuminate. Bracteoles ovate acuminate* 

 curved. Filaments of stamens bearded. Wight Ic. 

 t. 2084. 



Pulneys, on the slopes of Gundan shola above Kodaikanal. 

 Fyson, Bourne 1242, 1243. 



I was unable to match my specimen at Kew, so ^ive this name under 

 reserve. 



