254 MONOCOTYLEDONEÆ. CYANOTI. - 
y, rosea (sp. Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 6, p. 33, tab. 2086); foliis latio- 
ib 
us. 
Ex Wight l. c. « folia sessilia cordato-ovata obtusa; » at in icone 
folia non (quam in multis exemplis C. fasciculatæ typicæ) latiora 
videntur; in herb. Wight propr. exemplum nullum reperire potui. 
Indiæ Orientalis peninsula; in collibus Bolamputty prope Coimba- 
tore (fide Wight). 
2, T'hwaitesii (sp. Hassk.! Commel. Ind. p. 136); dense divarica- 
tim ramosa. Tradescantia rupestris, Law! in Graham Cat. Pl. 
p. 223. 
A Dalzellio (in Dalz. et Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 255) ad C. hispidam, 
Dalz. (1. e. C. papilionaceam, Rom. et Schultes) relata, sed capsule 
valve spermaphorum centralem liberum non relinquunt. A. Thwai 
tesio (in Enum. Pl. Ceyl. p. 323) ad C. fasciculatam dubie relata. 
Species videtur inter C. arachnoïdeam et C. fasciculatam fere inter- 
. media. i 
Indie Orientalis peninsula; in provincia Belgaum (Law); prope 
Courtallum (Wight n. 969). Zeylania (Thwaites nn. 2978, 2435 par- 
tim). 
[C. Nilagiriea (sp. Hassk. Commel. Ind. p. 127) a C. arachnoidea 
differt glabritie, foliis obtusioribus, spicis densioribus, floribus majo- 
ribus (Hasskarl); sed exemplum authenticum non vidi.] 
** Africane. 
19. C. hirsuta (Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1841, 
p. 57); tuberibus globosis, caulibus erectis; foliis linearibus; Spic 
terminalibus atque axillaribus, peduneulatis sessilibusque, siepe phe 
ribus conglomeratis ; seminibus quadrato-pyramidatis, vix foveolati* 
C. Abyssinica, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 2, p. 344, tab. 98; Hassk. Com- 
mel. Ind. p. 139. Zygomenes Abyssinica, Hassk. in Schweinf. Æthiop- 
p.211. Commelina hirsuta, Hochst.! in herb. Schimp., nec R. Pr 
nec Kunth. 
Caules 1-3 dm., villosi aut glabrati, sursum corymbosi. Folia longa 
20 cent., lata 12 mill. (vel in exemplis nanis longa 5 cent.), villosa 
aut (nisi prope basim) elabra. Pedunculi (in exemplis majoribus! 
5-6 cent., in exemplis nanis sæpe 0 spicis terminalibus congestis 1. €: 
sessilibus. Bracteæ lanceolato-lineares, foliaceæ, spicam longe supe 
rantes; vel in exemplis minoribus abbreviate. Bracteolæ 12 mill. 
oblongz, falcatee, acutæ, virides, ciliato-villosæ aut glabratie. bise- 
