Cyanoiis.'] CLX. COMMELINACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 389 



Comm. $ Gyrt. Seng. t. 35 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl 256 ; JBenth. Fl 

 Austral, vii. 82 ; Hassk. in PI. Jungh. i. 154 ; Commel. Ind. 107 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 8996. C. disrumpens, Hassk. 1. c. 105 (in part}. Commelina axillaris, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 42. Tradescantia axillaris, Linn. Mant. 321; Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. 5, 1. 107 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 118. Zygomenes axillaris, Salisb. in Trans. Sort. 

 Soc. i. 271. Rheede Hort. Hal. x. t.* 13. 



Throughout INDIA ; in the plains from the upper Gangetic valley to ASSAM and 

 southwards to CEYLON. DISTKIB. E. Asia, trop. Australia. 



Stem, 6-18 in., annual, stout or slender, branched. Leaves 2-6 by \ in., 

 acuminate, sheaths ciliate, base broad or narrowed. Petals long-clawed, blue. 

 Ovary glabrous ; style ovoid below the tip. Capsule in. long, glabrous ; valves 

 2-fid. 



16. C- cucullata, Kunth JEnum. iv. 107 ; glabrous or sparsely hairy, 

 leaves linear, flowers clustered in the sheaths, filaments nearly naked, 

 capsule depressed in the centre with 3 horns, seeds subquadrate pitted. 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 189 ; Clarke Monogr. 245, t. 5, f. 7. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Canara to Malabar. 



Habit and characters of D. axillaris, but differing in the glabrous filaments and 

 broader capsule and shorter broader seeds. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



C. NILAGIRICA, Hassle. Commelin. Ind. 127; differing according to Hasskarl 

 from C. arachnoidea in its glabrousness, obtuser leaves, denser spikes, and larger 

 flowers. 



C. 'ZARLIANA, Hassle. 1. c. 146; "stems creeping 8-12 in. glabrous, leaves |-2 by 

 r V~s" * n - linear-lanceolate, sheaths purple, cymes 1-3-nate axillary or terminal small 

 cobwebby-puberulous, bracteoles few, seeds longitudinally cracked not scrobiculate, 

 style glabrous tip thickened." Poonah, Hugel. 



C. INCEBTA, Hassle. I, c. 165; " brown-villous, peduncles 5-nate," (cymes?) 

 '' umbellately crowded at the top of a common peduncle, bracts " (bracteoles ?) 7-20 

 falcate lanceolate acuminate, flowers woolly-villous, style hairy thickened below the 

 tip. Asia, Hugel. 



6. STREPTOLIRION, Edgew. 



A twining flaccid herb. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-cordate, acuminate. 

 Flowers few, in axillary and terminal scorpioid cymes. Sepals oblong, free. 

 Petals linear, free. Stamens 6, filaments bearded, anthers transverse, cells 

 margining the 2-lobed connective. Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform, stigma 

 obconic ciliate ; ovules 2 superposed in each cell. Capsule oblong tri- 

 gonous beaked loculicidal. Seeds angular, rugose. 



S. volubile, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. -xx. 90, t. 2; Wight Ic. 

 t. 2081 ; Hassk. Commel. Ind. 6 ; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Seng. 40 ; Monogr. 

 261. S. Griffithii, Kurz. Tradescantia cordifolia, Griff. Journ. 2C8. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 5-9000 ft. UPPEB 

 ASSAM, on the Patkoy hills, and MUNNIPOEE. DISTRIB. China. 



Stem 6 or more ft., glabrous or sparsely hairy, climbing over bushes, terete, 

 branched, often rooting at the nodes. Leaves 4-6 in. diam., base often deeply 2-lobed 

 . nerves many from the base, concentric; petiole 25 in., glabrous or puberulous ; sheath 

 short, mouth ciliate. Flowers in. diam., white, upper often barren. Filaments with 

 yellow hairs. Capsule in. long, glabrous or pubescent. The Khasian specimens 

 (var. khasiana, Clarke) are more hairy than the Himalayan with villous capsules 

 and a penicillate stigma. 



