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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 TuBEKOSA, Roem. and Schultz syst. vii, 1153. — Root 

 tuberous perennial ; stems several, "creeping, round, 6 to 30 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, peduncled, 

 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. Roxb. Cor. t. 108. 



6. Cristata, Roem. and Schult. loc. cit. 1150. — 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, RcEm. 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, t. 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. PI. t. 109; Roth. nov. 

 sp. 188 (?). 



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. 



