CXXXA^ COMMELINACE.i;. 793 



2. Cyanotis tuberosa, ScJndtesf. St/st. v, 7 (1830) p. 1153. Eoot 

 of fusiform tubers ; stem 6-3G iu. long, swollen and very hirsute at tLie 

 very base, suberect or prostrate and creeping below, densely villous or 

 almost glabrous. Leaves sessile, the radical and lower cauiine 6-10 by 

 •^-1 in., often purple beneath, linear or eusiform, villous, the upper 

 cauiine leaves much shorter; sheaths of radical leaves 1 in. long, 

 glabrous, those of the cauiine leaves shortly silky. Cymes villous or 

 densely hirsute, |-1 in. long, usually pedunculate, in the axils of short 

 ovate acute leaves (bracts) which are shorter than the cyme, strongly 

 falcately decurved ; bracteoles imbricate in 2 series, usually many, ^- 

 I in, long. Sepals ^ by ^ in., linear-lanceolate, acute, densely villous 

 and ciliate. Corolla ^ in. long, bluish-purple ; lobes yg— ^ in. long, 

 ovate, subacute. Filaments spirally twisted, fusiform towards the tips, 

 densely bearded above with blue hairs ; anthers ^L i^, long, yellow. 

 Style thickened at the tip, with a tuft of hairs near the apex. Capsules 

 I by j\j in., ellipsoid, the upper half hairy, the lower half glabrous. 

 Seeds -^ in. long and broad, truncate at the base, shortly conic at the 

 apex, obscurely rugose, brown. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 386 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 256; Clarke, in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 3 (1881) p. 249; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 4, p. 312; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 525; 

 "VVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 674. Tradescantia tuberosa, Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. V. 2 (1798) p. 5, t. 108 ; Grab. Cat. p. 223.— Flowers : Aug.-Sept. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Law ! ; N. & S. Konkan, Law ! Deccan : Purandhar, BJiira ! 

 S. M. Country: Belgaum, Stocks I JRifchie, ^^^^ I ; Dharwar, Woodrow; Badami, 

 Woodrow. Kanara: Law'.; Kala naddi, Riichie, 743! — Distuib. India (W. Penin- 

 sula) ; Ceylon. 



Vae. ascendens, C. B. Clarke, in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 3 (1881) p. 249. 

 A smaller plant, more glabrous ; branches ascending or procumbent, 

 rooting and proliferous at the nodes; flowers blue. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 386 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1085. Cyanotis ascendens (sp.), Dalz. in 

 Kew Journ. Bot. v. 4 (1852) p. 343 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 255. C. sarmen- 

 tosa, Wight, Icon. v. 6 (1853) p. 33, t. 2087. 



Konkan: Stocks], Law I Deccan: hills near Chattersinghi (Puona districts), 

 Cooke I ; Bowdban, near Poena, Eanadc I S. M. Country : Belgaum, Balzell !, Stocks !, 

 Eitchic, 1466 ! ; Badami, Woodrow. 



3. Cyanotis fasciculata, Schidtes f. St/st. v. 7 (1830) p. 1152. 

 A small branched floccosely silky or cobwebby woolly herb ; root annual, 

 fibrous ; branches 4-10 in. long, spreading, slightly rooting below, leafy. 

 Leaves f-2 by ^— | in., sessile, linear-lanceolate or narrowed from the 

 base to the tip, acute or acuminate, straight or recurved, cobwebby on 

 both sides (rarely glabrate). Cymes ^-# in. long, axillary and terminal ; 

 peduncles ^-1 in. long, 1 or more together ; bracts lanceolate, |-| in. 

 long, usually falcately recurved, acute, longer than (rarely shorter than 

 or equalling) the cobwebby cyme ; bracteoles |-i in. long, lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, falcate, acuminate. Sepals ^ by jL iji,^ elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute, cobwebby. Corolla ^ in, long, pink ; lobes yij- ^ in. 

 long, ovate, obtuse or subacute. Filaments filiform, spirally twisted, 

 bearded with hairs of 2 colors, blue and white {DaJzell). Ovary with 

 an erect tuft of hairs at the apex ; style naked, fusiform at the tip. 

 Capsules i by Jj in., oblong, 3-gonous, pilose at the apex. Seeds oblong, 

 faintly rugose. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 387 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 255 ; Wight, 



