Cyanotis.'] CLX. COMMELINACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 387 



8. C. pilosa, Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1155 ; more or less clothed with 

 long spreading hairs or nearly glabrous, leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 cymes subsessile terminal and axillary, bracteoles oblong falcate acute, 

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

 quadrate, seeds shortly conic obscurely pitted. Wight Ic. t. 2083 ; Clarke 

 Monogr. 251 ; Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 99 ; Wall. Cat. 8992 ; Cyanotis sp. 11, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. Tradescantia pilosa, Heyne mss. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; Nilghiri hills, Heyne, Wight, &c. CEYLON; in the 

 higher parts of the island. 



Habit of C. arachnoidea, from which it differs in the hairyness and quadrate 

 capsule and seeds. The Ceylon are the only good specimens, and they are nearly 

 glabrous. 



9. C. villosa, ScJmltes, f. Syst. vii. 1155 ; silky or villous with 

 spreading hairs, leaves narrowly lanceolate or ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 C} 7 mes axillary and terminal, bracteoles small lanceolate falcate or nearly 

 straight, filaments filiform, style fusiform below the tip, capsule oblong, 

 seeds conical corrugated. Clarke Monogr. 251 ; Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 

 99 ; Wall. Cat. 8995. C. lanceolata, Wight Ic. t. 2085 ; Hassk. I. c. 125. 

 Commelina, sp. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. Tradescantia villosa, Spreng. 

 Syst. ii. 116. T. ? cyanotidea, Hassk. I. c. 65. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the E. slope of the Nilghiris, Wight, &c. CEYLON, 

 Central province, ascending to 6000 ft. 



Stems 3-4 ft., erect from a procumbent base, succulent, often rooting and pro- 

 liferous at the nodes. Leaves 3-5 by %-\ in., sessile, shining, grten, silkily ciliate. 

 Bract twice as long as the cyme ; bracteoles f in. long. Capsule obtuse. 



10. C. zeylanicaj Hassk. Commel. Ind. 145; stem elongate glabrous 

 except a line of hairs, leaves narrowly .lanceolate puberulous pilose 

 beneath, cymes small terminal subsessile, bracteoles dimidiate-ovate, cap- 

 sule subquadrate, seeds striate and obscurely pitted. Clarke Monogr. 253. 

 C. lanceolata, Wight, var. subglabra, Thwaites Enum. 323. 



CEYLON ; Central province, up to 6000 ft., Thwaites. 



Differs from C. villosa in the short capsule and striate seeds, glabrous stem and 

 smaller leaves narrowed at the base. The bracts also are much shorter, hardly 

 exceeding the cyme. 



11. C. vagra, Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1153; softly hairy, stems elon- 

 gate procumbent, leaves oblong-lanceolate, cymes small axillary and 

 terminal sessile, bracteoles obscurely 2-seriate lanceolate nearly straight, 

 capsule small subquadrately oblong, seeds closely reticulate and 1-2- 

 foveolate. Clarke Monogr. 252. Tradescantia vaga, Blume Enum. i. 5. 

 ? Lour. Fl. Cochinch. i. 239, and Hassk. Commelin. Ind. 62 (iiot of Zollinger). 



TENASSEBJM, Heifer. DISTEIB. Java, China. 



Stems 10-20 in., slender. Leaves 1^-2 by ^ | in. Bract large. Capsule 

 obtuse. Seeds with two deep clefts or pits. The obscurely biseriate bracts ally it 

 to the section Dalzellia. 



12. C. fasciculatay Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1152 ; annual, dwarf, de- 

 cumbent, fjoccosely silky or hairy, leaves linear or lanceolate, cymes 

 bracteate axillary and terminal sessile and peduncled, bracteoles falcately 

 lanceolate, capsule oblong, seeds subrugose. Clarke Monogr. 253 ; Hassk. 

 Com. Ind. 122; Wight Ic. t. 2086; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 255; Wall. 

 Cat. 8990 (in part). C. dichotricha, Stocks in Wight Ic. t. 2087; Hassk. 

 I. c. 130. C. Lawiana and decumbens, Wight Ic. t. 2086 and 2088 ; Hassk. 



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