Gyanotis.] CLx. oommelinaceve. (J. D. Hooker.) 387 



8. C. pilosa, Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1155 ; Tnore or less clothed with 

 long spreading hairs or nearly glabrous, leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 cymes subsessile terminal and axillary, braoteoles oblong falcate acute, 

 filaments bearded, style bearded and thickened below the tip, capsule 

 quadrate, seeds shortly conic obscurely pitted. Wight le. t. 2083 ; Clarhe 

 Monogr. 251 ; Hassk. Oommelin. Ind. 99 ; Wall. Oat. 8992 ; Gyanotis sp. 11, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. Tradesoantia pilosa, Seyne mss. 



The Decoan Peninsula; Nilghiri hills, Heyne, Wight, &c. Ceylon ; in the 

 higher parts o? the island. 



Habit of 0. arachnoidea, from which it differs in the hairyness and quadrate 

 capsule and seeds. The Ceylon are the only good specimens, and they are nearly 

 glabrous. 



9. C- villosa, Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1155 ; silky or villous with 

 spreading hairs, leaves narrowly lanceolate or ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 cymes axillary and terminal, bracteoles small lanceolate falcate or nearly 

 straight, filaments filiform, style fusiform below the tip, capsule oblong, 

 seeds conical corx-ugated. Clarhe Monogr. 251; Sassh. Oommelin. Ind. 

 99 ; Wall. Cat. 8996. C. lanceolata, Wight Ic. t. 2085 ; Hassk. I. c. 125. 

 Commelina, sp. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. Tradesoantia villoaa, Spreng. 

 Syst. ii. 116. T. ? cyanotidea, Hassk. I. c. 65. 



The Deccan Peninsula ; on the E. slope of the Nilghiris, Wight, &o. Ceylon, 

 Central province, ascending to 6000 ft. 



Stems 3-4 ft., erect from a procumbent base, succulent, often rooting and pro- 

 liferous at the nodes. Leaves 3-5 by J-j in., sessile, shining, green, silkily ciliate. 

 JBraet twice as long as the cyme ; bracteoles f in. long. Capsule obtuse. 



10. C. zeylanlca, Hassk. Oommel. Ind. 145 ; stem elongate glabrous 

 except a line of hairs, leaves narrowly lanceolate puberulous pilose 

 beneath, cymes small terminal subsessile, braoteoles dimidiate-ovate, cap- 

 sule subquadrate, seeds striate and obscurely pitted. Clarke Monogr. 253. 

 0. lanceolata, Wight, var. subglabra, Thwaites Enum. 323. 



Ceylon ; Central province, up to 6000 ft., Thwaites. 



Difiers from C. villosa in the short capsule and striate seeds, glabrous stem and 

 smaller leaves narrowed at the base. The bracts also are much shorter, hardly 

 exceeding the cyme. 



11. C. vaga, Schultes,/. Syst. vii. 1153; softly hairy, stems elon- 

 gate procumbent, leaves oblong-lanceolate, cymes small axillary and 

 terminal sessile, bracteoles obscurely 2-seriate lanceolate nearly straight, 

 capsule small eubquadrately oblong, seeds closely reticulate and 1-2- 

 foveolate. Clarke Monogr. 252. Tradesoantia vaga, Blume Unum. i. 6. 

 ? Lour. Fl. Oochinoh. i. 239, and Hassk. Oommelin. Ind. 62 {not of Zollinger). 



Tbnasbebim, Heifer. — Djsteib. Java, China. 



Stems 10-20 in., slender. Leaves li-2 by ^-| in. Sraot large. Capsule 

 obtuse. Seeds with two deep clefts or pits. The obscurely biseriate bracts ally it 

 to the section Dalzellia. 



12. C. fasciculataj Schultes, f. Syst. vii. 1152 ; annual, dwarf, de- 

 cumbent, floccosely silky or hairy, leaves linear or lanceolate, cymes 

 bracteate axillary and terminal sessile and pedunoled, bracteoles falcately 

 lanceolate, capsule oblong, seeds subrugose. Clarke Monogr. 253 ; Hassle. 

 Com. Ind. 122; Wight Ic. t. '2()86 ; Dalz. & Qihs. Bomb. Fl. 255; Wall. 

 Oat. 8990 {in part). C. diohotrioha, Stocks in Wight Ic. t. 2087; Hassk. 

 L c. 130. 0. Lawiana and deoumbens, Wight Ic. t. 2086 and 2088 ; Hassk. 



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