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tricha, Stocks in Wight Ic. 2086-87. The late Dr. Stocks suppos- 

 ed this to be a new species ; but we cannot find that it differs from 

 Heynes' plant, especially as we have found but one woolly species 

 in the Presidency. The differently coloured hairs are not obser- 

 vable in dried specimens, and therefore were not seen by Roth, 

 who described Heynes' specimens. 



5. C TUBEROSA, Rcem. and Scltultz syst. vii, 1153. Root 

 tuberous perennial ; stems several, creeping, round, 6 to ^0 inches 

 long ; radical leaves 3 to 4, lily-like, ensiform, large ; stem ones 

 linear-lanceolate, sheathing, striated, villous and purple beneath ; 

 heads of flowers terminal and axillary, solitary or twin, pednncled, 

 imbricated; bracts falcate, ciliated ; flowers bluish-purple. This is a 

 large and coarse species when compared with the others. Common 

 in the Western Deccan, never seen in Concan. Hoxb. Cor. t. 108. 



6. CRISTATA, Roem. and Schult. loc. cit. 11.50. Stem diffuse, 

 creeping, marked with alternate, pubescent lines ; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, smooth, ciliated ; pairs of bracts 6 to 7 lanceolate falcate, 

 imbricated, terminal ; stamens scarcely longer than the corolla. 

 The commonest species during the rains. Syn. Commelyna cristata, 

 Linn. sp. 62 ; Tradescantia cristata, Jacq. Vind. ii, t. 137; Bot. 

 Mag. 1435. 



7. C AXILLARIS, Roem. and Schult. syst. vii, 1155. Stem 

 branched, creeping, the branches puberulous on one side ; leaves 

 linear-acute, smooth, ciliated ; sheaths ciliated ; flowers axillary in 

 twos or threes, subsessile, coming out in succession. Western 

 Deccan, not uncommon. Syn. Tradescantia axillaris, Linn. Mant. 

 321; Rheed, Mai. x, .13. 



4. DITHYROCARPUS, Kunth. 



1. D PANICULATUS, Kunth. Enum. iv, p 79. Stem-creeping 

 with the extremities erect and smooth; sheaths with the mouth 

 woolly ; leaves lanceolate-acuminate ; panicle terminal, subglobose, 

 many-flowered, pubescent. On the Ghauts ; might be easily 

 mistaken for a grass at first sight. Syn. D rothii, Wight Ic. 

 2080; Tradescantia paniculata, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 109; Roth. nov. 

 sp. 188(7). 



5. FLAGELLARIA, Linn. 



1. F INDICA, Linn. Willd. ii, 263. A long, straggling, scand- 

 ent, perennial plant; leaves narrow, ending in "long, slender, spiral 

 cirrhi ; flowers inconspicuous ; berries globose, size of a pea, 

 smooth, red, pulpy, generally one-seeded, with 2 abortive ovules ; 

 the flowers are terminal and panicled as in the preceding plant, and 

 are often by abortion unisexual. Among rocks near the sea, 

 South Concan. 



