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10. A TUBEROSUM, Hamilton in Wall. Cat. 5207. Root peren- 

 nial, composed of several smooth, elongated tubers ; stem none, 

 except the sheathing bases of the leaves, which appear after the 

 flowers ; leaves ensiform, waved acute, smooth ; racemes radical, 

 erect, straight, smooth ; scape branched above; branches each with 

 a sheathing bract ; branchlets with several pedicelled blue flowers, 

 rather large. Southern Corican, common. Syn. Commelyna 

 scapiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 175. Royle has needlessly, it is thought, 

 made this into a new genus. (Mardaunia, Royle Himal, t. 95). Royle 

 states that the curious root sold in the bazars under the name of 

 " Kala-Mooslee," is the root of this plant ; but it does not bear the 

 least resemblance to it. A scapiflora, Wight Ic. 2078. 



3. CYANOTIS. 



J . C HISPIDA, Dalz. loc. cit. Annual, 4 to 5 inches high, all 

 hispid, slightly branched at the base ; stems erect, round, striated, 

 red ; leaves linear ensiform, fleshy, rather flat, 1 to 2 inches long, 

 3 to 6 lines broad ; flowers terminal, sessile, capitate, few, with 

 falcate semicordate bracts ; stamens 6, fertile, long-exserted ; anthers 

 of a very deep-violet colour; filaments bearded above, with blue 

 hairs all pointing to one side ; capsule with the cells 2-seeded. On 

 rocks. Southern Concan. Syn. Tradescantia rupestris, Law in 

 Grah. Cat. p 223. 



2. C VIVIPARA, Dalz. loc. cit. Epiphytal stemless, all clothed 

 with rufous-spreading hairs ; radical leaves all linear ensiform, 

 flat, thick, fleshy, fascicled ; scapes rising from the root, filiform, 

 rooting and viviparous ; peduncles from the nodes of the scape, 

 solitary alternate, bearing a 3 to 4-flowered umbel, with 2 bracts ; 

 bracts at the base of the peduncle small, foliaceous, oblong, acute ; 

 sheathing cells of capsule 2-seeded ; valves much recurved after 

 dehiscence ; seeds cylindric. On trees at Parwar Ghaut. This is 

 a plant of a very peculiar habit, most resembling the large C 

 tuberosa ; the tuft of radical leaves are liliaceous in appearance. 



3. C ADSCENDENS, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, p 343. Root 

 tuberous ; stems several, ascending simple, round striated, shining ; 

 leaves linear ensiform glabrous ; heads terminal, many-flowered ; 

 flowers of a lovely blue. At Belgaum, in wet, grassy places. 



4. C FASCICULATA, Roam, and Schultz syst. vii, 1152. 

 Woolly ; stem dichotomous ; leaves lanceolate, subpetioled ; head 

 of flowers terminal, few-flowered, with about 4 lanceolate-falcate 

 sheaths; flowers rose-coloured, filaments bearded with hairs, of which 

 the lower half are pure white, the upper half rose-coloured, 4 to 6 

 inches high. Common in rocky places in the Deccan. Syn. 

 Tradescantia fasciculata, Heyne in Roth. nov. sp. p 189 ; C dichro- 



