386 CLX. OOMMBLINACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cyanotis. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir eastwards, ascending to 80CO ft. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 4600 ft. BURMA & PENANG, Wallich. DISTRIB. China. 



Stems slender, branched, tufted, sometimes bulbiferous. Leaves 1-2 by i-i in., 

 falcate or straight, sessile, acute or acuminate, ciliate, cobwebby beneath. Bracts 

 much longer than the cyme. Bracteoles falcately ovate, acuminate. Ovary tipped 

 with hairs. Capsule quadrate. Seeds brown. C. nobilis and glaberrima are very 

 large stout forms 1-2 ft. high, with leaves sometimes 6 in. long, common in the 

 Khasia hills. 



5. C. tuberosa, Schulles,f. Syst. vii. 1153 ; suberector prostrate, tall, 

 stout, glabrous or villous, root of cylindric tubers, radical leaves ensiform 

 cauline narrowly oblong, cymes in the axil of a short leafy bract, terminal 

 often corymbose, bracteoles villous ovate falcate, filaments bearded, tip 

 tumid, style bearded thickened at the tip, seeds obscurely rugose. Clarke, 

 Monogr. 249; Wall. Cat. 8991; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 256; Hassk. 

 Oommelin. Ind. 100. C. concanensis, Thomsonii & Stocksii, Hassk. 1. c. 

 144, 133, 118. Tradescantia tuberosa, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. t. 108 ; Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 19. Cyanotis sp., No. 8, 9, Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. $ T. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the west side, from the Concan to Travancore. 



Stem 6 in. -3 ft., suberect or prostrate, hirsute at the base. Leaves, radical and 

 lower cauline, 6-10 by i-l in., sessile, often purple beneath, scaberulous. Cymes 

 villous, or densely hirsute ; bracts ovate or lanceolate, falcate, shorter than the cyme ; 

 bracteoles -f in. Petals blue-purple. Capsule hairy above. A large coarse 

 species. 



Var. adscendens, Clarke 1. c. ; smaller, more glabrous, branches rooting and 

 proliferous at the nodes. C. adscendens, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Sot. 1852, 343 ; 

 Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 255 ; Hassk. Commelin Ind. 102. C. sarmentosa, Wight 

 Ic. t. 2087 ; Hassk. 1. c. 154. With the type ; and at Agra, Jacquemont, Chota 

 Nagpore, Clarke. 



6. C. Wigrhtii, Clarke Monogr. 250; tall, very stout, suberect, sparsely 

 hirsute, leaves very long ensiform, cymes axillary and subcorymbose, 

 bracteoles falcately ovate acuminate ciliate, filaments bearded, style 

 thickened below the tip, seeds oblong dotted. C. longifolia, Wight Ic. 

 t. 2084. 



SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA ; Nilghiri and Travancore hills, Wight. 



Stem branched, 2-3 ft. high. Leases attaining 6-18 by ^-1-j in., but usually 

 much smaller, narrowed from the base to the tip, ciliate ; sheaths short loose. Bract 

 usually^ much longer and larger than the cyme ; bracteoles | in., ciliate. Capsule 

 oblong, not half so long as the sepals. 



7. C. arachnoidea, Clarke Monogr. 250; suberect, cottony or cob- 

 webby, leaves very variable linear-oblong or lanceolate rather obtuse, 

 cymes subsessile terminal and axillary, bracteoles falcately lanceolate, 

 filaments bearded, style bearded and thickened below the tip. capsule 

 oblong, seeds elongate conical obscurely pitted, C. fasciculata, Wall. Cat., 

 8990 (for the most part}. C. pilosa, Wight Herb, (not Ic. t. 2083). PC. 

 sericea, Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 152. Cyanotis sp., 5, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 

 4" T. Tradescantia lanata and incana, Heyne mss. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA; Nilghiri hills, Wight (Kew distrib. 2839). CEXLON; 

 Haragam, Trimen. 



Differs from C. Wightii in the soft shining silky or cobwebby pubescence. 

 Trimen's specimens are very robust, with radical leaves 12 by 1^-2 in., exactly as in 

 the large states of C. Wightii; but those of the Dec-can specimens are much smaller 

 and narrower. 



