280 _  COMMELINACEZ. [ Cyanomis. 
villous, often purple beneath ; upper cauline leaves much shorter ;. 
sheaths of radical leaves about 1 in. long, glabrous, those of cauline 
leaves shortly silky. Cymes 3-1 in. densely hairy, in the axils of short 
faleately decurved ovate acute bracts; bracteoles many, imbricate 
in 2 series. Sepals } in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, densely villous 
and ciliate. Corolla } in. long, bluish-purple ; lobes 3,-4 in. ovate, 
subacute. © Filaments—spirally twisted, densely bearded with blue 
hairs. Style thickened and with a tuft of hairs at the tip. Capsule 
2 in. long, ellipsoid, hairy on its upper half. Seeds brown, obscurely 
rugose. 
Agra (Jacquemont). Distr. : Chota Nagpur; Bombay Pres. to 8. 
India and Ceylon. A smalJer and more glabrous plant than the 
type ; flowers blue. The type occurs in W. India from the Konkan 
and southwards to Travancore. 
3. C. axillaris, Schult. f. Syst. vii, 1154; Clarke in DC. Mon. 
iii, 244; F. B. 1. vi, 388 ; Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. Pl. 1085 ; Cooke 
Fl. Bomb. ii, 795, Tradescantia axillaris, Linn.; Roxb.; Fl. Ind. 
vi, 118. 
Roots fibrous. Stem annual, 6-18 in. long, stout or slender, diffusely 
branched, leafy, glabrous; branches suberect or creeping below or 
prostrate, glabrous or sparsely hairy, often coloured. Leaves sessile, 
2-6 in. long, narrowly linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
flat, more or less hairy ; sheaths + to 2 in., inflated, ciliate. Cymes 
reduced to axillary fascicles of violet-blue flowers clustered in the 
inflated sheaths; bracteoles small, almost concealed in the leaf- 
sheaths. Sepals 2 in. long, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla-lobes 
broadly ovate, subacute. Filaments fusiform below the tip, 
bearded. Capsule about } in. long, oblong-ellipsoid, beaked, glabrous 
except the beak. Seeds 3, in. long, oblong, compressed, truncate at 
base rounded at the apex and with a very short conical tip, mottled 
with dark-brown and shining. 
Bundelkhand, in marshy ground (Edgeworth); Agra (Munro); Rohil- 
khand, Cawnpore and N. Oudh (Duthie), etc. Disrris. : Throughout 
India, in the plains, and in Ceylon, extending to Trop. Australia. 
4, FLOSCOPA, Lour.; Fl. Brit. Ind, vi, 390. 
Erect or subscandent herbs. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 
in terminal or axillary panicles of secund but not scorpioid cymes. 
bracts minute. Sepals 3, oblong, free. Petals 3, obavate, free. 
Stamens 6, all perfect or 1 imperfect; filaments filiform, 
