422 COMMELINACE^. 



Cyanotis arachnoidea Clarke, Wight's Kew Dist. No. 

 2839 ! ; F.B.L vi 386, V 7 ; White Spider Legs. 



Branches or stems half erect or sprawling on the 

 ground, 10 to 20 inches, covered all over as also the 

 leaves with fluffy white cottony or silky hairs. Leaf- 

 stalks M inch. Blades 2 by J^ to J^ inch, tapering 

 evenly from the base to near the apex. Cymes ^ to M 

 inch, terminal, with a leaf or bract just below, and in the 

 upper leaf-axils one or more. Stalked or sessile. Brac- 

 teoles lanceolate, curved, Yz inch. Filaments bearded- 

 Style bearded and thickened below the stigma. Capsule 

 oblong : seeds elongate-conical, obscurely pitted. 

 t. 268. (Not Wight Ic. t 2083). 



In dry places. Nilgiris : Avalanche ; Coonoor. Pulneys : 

 on the downs above Kodaikanal, near the observatory, etc., 

 flowers summer. Fyson 1850, 3109. Bour?ie 47, 3048. 



Gen. Dist. Also Coylon. 



Cyanotis yiilosa Roem. et. Sch., Wall Cat 8995 ! ; F.B.L 

 vi 387, V 9. Stem ' 3 to 4 feet ' from a procumbent base, 

 succulent often rooting and proliferous at the nodes. 

 Young parts villous or silky : leaf-sheaths very much 

 so, ^A inch, with the split hidden under long hairs. 

 Leaves 4/^ by % inch, glossy and drying dark brown 

 above, fringed with silky hairs. Bracteoles /^ to % inch, 

 as seen folded in the cymes nearly semi-circular. ' Fila- 

 ments slender. Style swollen below the tip. . Capsule 

 oblong obtuse. Seeds conical corrugated.' Wight Ic. 

 t. 2085. 



In sholas. Pulneys : near Kodaikanal and below to Shem- 

 baganur. Nilgiris : Coonoor, Courtallum. Fyson 439, 2106 

 Bourne 408, 491, 525, 1024, 1239. 1239,^ etc. 



Gen. Dist. Also Ceylon. 



Specimens from the higher Pulneys have larger leaves than those 

 rem other places, but exactly as in Wall. Cat. 8995. 



