196 NOTES ON COMMELINACES. 
Cyanotis.—Capsule 8-celled. Seeds two in each cell, 
- vertically superimposed, truncated along their plane of contact, 
each carrying its erecta to the end sini from this flattened 
plane. Species 
12. Srreprozmron.—Capsule 38-celled, with two seeds in each 
cell. An exten oe twiner, with long- petioled cordate-ovate leaves. 
_ : 
es, —Capsule 8-celled, with two seeds in each cell. 
ree , with rigid-linear leaves. Flowers spicate. Filaments 
short. igen 5, pons oy 
. Froscopa.—Capsule 2-celled, with one —— in each cell. 
Racemes eacaiigt Spociis 11, in both hemisphere 
B. American genera (see also Floscopa and pera: 
* Petals separate or nearly so. 
+ Cells of the ovary 8-5-ovulate (in the anomalous species of Tinantia 
2-ovulate). 
15. Pyrruema.—Densely rusty hirsute. Capsule papery. 
Species 1. 
16. Dicnortsanpra.—Anther dehiscing by xe apical pores. 
Fruit bivalved: seeds immersed in pulp. Species 27. 
17. Trvantta.—Pedunele solitary terminal, “dividing into two 
r three cased Boopeing umbellate. Capsule membranous, 
sant Speci 
- Cells of the ovary 2-ovulate. 
18. TrapEscantia.—Umbels simple or compound. Species 82. 
19. Caxuista.-—Stamens 8-1 fertile, none sterile or rudimentary. 
Species 4. 
20. Sprronema. Meets A: te dense, scattered sessile in a lax 
panicle. Specie 
. Campr a tispale in fruit succulent, enclosing the thin 
gaee's Pas oe i. 
Savv. —Small. ibe eee subincluded within 
folded Conidae like bracts. Speci 
ttt Cells of the ovary 1-ovulate. 
23. Ramo. Tit ih in dense umbels, enclosed within boat-like 
bracts. Species 
: 24, Lavronexo —Flowers loosely panicled. Bracts small. 
pecies 
** Petals united into a linear tube. 
25. Zevrwa.—Flowers subsessile between the two uppermost 
leaves of the branches. Species 
Pilots Se oe .—F lowers seiatlo axillary, splitting the leaf- 
307 species ; whereof only three, viz., Commelina nudiflora, 
C. alata and Aneilema ovato- -oblongum are found in both hemi- 
spheres. The species are mainly tropical; Commelina communis 
