‘orrestia, ] COMMELINACE 4. 1085 
secund, foliaceous, faleate pee oa, the aa and stamens alone 
exserted, rarely also the corolla-tube exserted; sometimes the 
flowers in exposed racemes or fascic icled in the ochreate leaf- 
low. Peta, 
oblong. Carpels 8, connate a 3- stad ovary ; oriiihes 2, oo 
lateral, one erect, the other pelos in each cell. F- 
| 3-celled, loculicidal capsule. Seeds usually 2 in each cell, sei 
i posed, cubical or pyramidal, usually rugose 
Flowers in cymes, enclosed in 2-seriate, falcate, imbricating bracteoles:— 
ts fibrous; stem and eRe slender; leaves ovyate- hens 
glabrous or with spreading hai 
Roots tube erous; stem and eng stout ; ae co ee 
cauline lanceolate, hirsute tuberosa ere 
Flowers axillary, enclosed in the sheaths of the ool aie small, 
slender, not imbricatin ing ssf? 
2252. Cyanotis cristata Schult. £.5 FB. I. vi. 385. ° Trades- 
cantia imbricata F. I. ii. 120. 
Chota Nagpur 
A slender, branching herb. 
2253. CyaNoris: TUBEROSA Sevie f. var. ADSCENDENS Clarke; 
86. : tuberosa E. D. C. 2525. Vecdescnatin 
twberosa F, I. ii. 119. 
A creeping herb, with Dae rooting nodes. 
Santal. Merom chunchi, hodo je ses arak’, 
2254. Cyanotis axmnaris Roem. & Schu i ; F. B. I. vi. 888; 
E. D. 0. 2522, Tradescantia acillavie ¥ I. ii, 118. 
In all the provinces. 
A common field weed. Hind. Soltraj. 
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978. Forrestia Rich. 
Erect herbs with simple stems, creeping or rooting below ; 
leaves broad, with tubular sheaths, persisting after the fall of the 
lade. Flowers sessile, bracteate, in subsessile, crowded, capitate 
or globose fascicles of dense cymes. Sepals 8, subequal. Petals 
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