702 CXXXV. COMMELIIfACEiE. 



racemes or fascicled in the ocbreate leaf-slieath. Sepals 3, subequal, 

 free or connate below. Petals 3, subequal, often uuited into a tube 

 below ; tlie limb orbicular. Stamens G, all perfect, subequal, hypogy- 

 nous or epipetalous ; filaments usually bearded, often inflated towards 

 the apex ; anthers oblong. Ovary 3-celIed ; ovules 2 in eacli cell, 

 collateral, one erect, the other pendulous. Fruit a 3-celled loculicidal 

 capsule. Seeds usually 2 in each cell, superposed, cubical or pyramidal, 

 usually rugose. — Distrib. Species 35, in the warm regions of the Old 

 World, Africa, India, Malaya, Ceylon, S. China, Tropical Australia. 



Cymes enclosed in 2-seriate falcate imbricating bvacteoles ; 

 valves of the capsule separating from a free central columnar 



3-toothed axis 1. C. papilionacea. 



Capsule with no free central column after dehiscence. 



Koot of fusiform narrow tubers ; a large coarse species. 2. C. tuherosa. 

 Eoot fibrous. 



A lloccosely silky or cobwebby woolly herb ; filaments 

 bearded with hairs of 2 colors ; leaves f-2 in. 



long ; seeds oblong, faintly rugose 3. C. fasciculata. 



Not floccosely silky nor cobwebby ; filaments bearded 

 with hairs of one color. 



Leaves 1^-2^ in. long, ovate-oblong with rounded 

 or cordate bases ; seeds ti-gonous, striate, witb 



2 large pits on 2 of the faces 4. C, cristata. 



Leaves 6-18 in. long, narrowed fi-om the base to 

 the tip; seeds truncate at the base, slightly 

 tapering upwards, witb shortly conical apex... 5. C. Wiyhiit. 

 Bracteoles small, not imbricating in 2 series. 



Epipliytic viviparous liei-b; flowers in small umbels ter- 

 minating short lateral peduncles from a long scape 6. C. vivipara. 



Terrestrial not viviparous herb ; flowers axillary, enclosed in 



the sheaths of the leaves 7. C axillaris. 



1. Cyanotis papilionacea, Schultes f. Syst. v. 7 (1830) p. 1151. 

 A hispid annual 4-8 in. high, sparingly branched from near the base, 

 the branches decumbent, often rooting ; stem red, terete, striate, 

 patently pilose. Leaves sessile, linear-oblong or lanceolate, 1-2 by 5- 

 ^ in., acute, acuminate, or obtuse and apiculate, more or less hairy 

 above, patently hairy beneath, the upper leaves longer than the lower ; 

 sheaths very short. Peduncles slender, ^-2 in. long, patently hairy ; 

 bract ovate-lanceolate, falcately recurved, often longer than the spike ; 

 bracteoles ^ in. long, 2-seriate, ovate, falcate, acute, ciliate. Sepals 

 lanceolate, acute, ciliate. Corolla-lube whitish, longer than the lobes ; 

 lobes bluish-purple, rounded. Stamens much exserted, twice as long 

 as the corolla, equalling the style; anthers violet; filaments slightly 

 thickened at the tip, bearded above with blue hairs. Ovary hairy; 

 style naked. Capsules included, oblong, fj by f in., hairy towards the 

 apex ; valves separating from a free centra! columnar 3-toothed axis. 

 Seeds smooth or pitted, 2 in each cell. PI. B. I. v. 6, p. 384; AVight, 

 Icon. t. 2081); Clarke, in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 3 (1881) p. 246; 

 AVoodr. in .Tourn. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 525. Ci/anotis Idxpida, 

 Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) p. 139 ; Dnl/,. & Gibs. p. 2bo. 

 Tradescanlia rvpcutria^ Law, in Grab. Cat. PI. Bo. (1839) p. 223. — 

 Flowers : Aug.-Sept. 



KoNKAN : Dalzcll\, WimlroV; S. Koukan on rocks. Dithcll A' Gihsmi: Malwan, 

 Dalzcll I Kanaha : Law I — Ulstuib. India (W. Pcuinsida). 



