120 Materials for a Flora uf the Malayan Peninsula. 



small numerous violet. Sepals ovate oblong boat-shaped purplish. 

 Petals ovate obtuse J inch long violet. Stamens all nude, filaments 

 thickened in the middle, one anther bigger than the others capsule 

 globose o inch long, seeds solitary in each cell, elliptic grooved on one 

 side transversely rugose. Clarke Monogr. 218. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI. 382. A. imberbc Eidl. Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. III. 389. Com 

 melina conspicua Bl. Enum. PI. Jav. I. p. 4. Dictyospcrmum conspi- 

 cuum Hassk. Coram, Ind. p. 22. 



Malacca : (Griffith), Bukit Sadanen (Derry 114) ; Pahang : Kwala 

 Tcmbeling (Eidley 2382) ; Penang : Pulau Betong (Curtis 980, 1977). 

 Distrib. Burmah, Siam, Java, Sumatra, Banda. 



Native name " Poko Tampoh Kalin." Roots used medicinally, 



4. Cyanotis, Don. 



Branching slendor herbs, often creeping. Leaves narrow, linear 

 or oblong, amplexicaul sheathing. Flowers in dense cymes in a double 

 row or irregularly crowded, rarely a few together, terminal. Bracts 

 biseriato imbricating or narrow lanceolate. Sepals 3 nearly free or more 

 or less connate, lanceolate. Petals 3 free at the base connate by the 

 claws, limb rounded blue or pink. Stamens 6, filaments filiform cover- 

 ed with moniliform blue pink or white hairs. Ovary sessile, 3 celled, 

 cells 2 ovuled. Style linear, stigma minute. Capsule papery 3 celled 

 3 valved loculicidal, placentas renexed with the valves or rarely left as 

 central column. Seeds 2 or 1 in each cell, cubic or pyramidal usually 

 rugose. 



Spocies about 30. Tropical Asia and Africa. 



Cymes enclosed in biseriate imbricating bracts. 

 Bracts very broad and large 

 Bracts small 



Cymes with narrow lanceolate bracts not 

 imbricating 



1. C. CRISTATA, Pi. and Sch. Syst. 7, p. 1150. Tall weak herb 

 croeping at the base much branched hairy or glabrous. Loaves thin 

 oblong lanceolato blunt 1 to 3 inches long, .] to 2 inch wide base broad 

 margins hairy, sheaths short edges ciliate i long. Cymes terminal 

 scorpioid 4 to 1 inch long subtended by a long bract-leaf 1-1 2 inch 

 long. Bracts falcate ovato rounded edges ciliate in two rows. Flowers 

 blue. Stamens bearded. Capsule oblong. Seeds angled on one faco, 

 rounded on the back with 4 foveoli on the inner face, often run into one. 

 Ihissk. PI. Jav. Ear. p. 99. PI. Junghuhn p. 153. Commel. Ind. 

 120. Wight Io. 2082. Clarke Commel. and Cyrt. Beng. t. 36. Monogr. 

 217. Hook. til. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 385. C. imbricata Kunth. Enum. 

 1 p. 103. C, raccmusa Clarke Cornin. and Cyrt. Bcng. 38. C, lliujcln 



