260 COMMELINACEAE 
2. TRADESCANTELLA Small Herbs with creeping stems. Leaf-blades 
jia but relatively broad. Cyme dicho- 
omous, the cymules with seale-like bracts. 
us nearly equal. Stamens 6: fila- 
ments glabrous.—One species. 
1. T. oe ds Wats.) Small. Stem 
long, ciliolate: sepals ovate, i 
d petals white: capsule nearly 2 
. long.—Damp shady places and ham- 
mede, Fu Fla.—Spr.-fall.—Most fre- 
ent kitehenmiddens and sites of 
bein activity. Often forming a dense ground cover. 
3. TRADESCANTIA [Rupp.] L. Plants mostly erect. Leaf-blades usu- 
ally relatively long and narrow. Cyme in an involucre of 1-3 leaf-like in 
Flowers sometimes fragrant. Petals nearly equal. B iind sessile.—A bout 
species, natives of temperate and tropical Ameriea.—Spr.-sum.—SPIDERWORTS. 
BLUE-JACKETS.—Some species have become favorite a mine and are 
greatly admired for their bright-blue or purple flowers whieh open, however, 
only in the morning. 
Stem and branches erect: flower cluster subtended by an involucre of elongate bracts: 
leaves elongate. 
ue blades greatly elongate and attenuate: flowers in a terminal cluster or also 
EUER axillary clusters at the upper remote nodes of 
the ste I. LONGIFOLIAE. 
Leaf-blades oe to linear-lanceolate, acuminate: 
flow ssile or short-stalked clusters k the ap- 
pro o e S R upper nodes of th II. BREVIFOLIAE. 
Stem and branches decumbent or DEA. a leaf- 
blades br ond. III. FLUMINENSES. 
I. LONGIFOLIAE 
Stem abbreviated, sometimes only abou centimeter long: 
bracts of the involucre mostly E p the leaves. 1. T. brevicaulis. 
Stem elongate, up a meter tall: bracts of the involucre 
l 
Stem glabrous or sparingly pubes 
Sepals pube coni with long non- ero hairs all over. 2. T. virginiana. 
Sepals with a small tuft of hairs at the tip. 
. T. reflexa. 
acts of the involucre. very ds petals red. 4. 1'. incarnata. 
She ths of the lower leaves ao 5. T. foliosa. 
Stems Pee and also sometimes glandul 
Stem, pedicels, En sepals hirsute with p -glandular 
hairs. 6. T. hirsuticaulis. 
Stem, pedicels, and sepals glandular-pubescent. T. T. longifolia. 
II. BREVIFOL 
Plant very variable in size and habit, but i Asus y dis- 
tichous, those egi e AN the very many-flowered clusters . 
mostly 'saccate at the bas 8. T. pilosa. 
III. FLUMINENSES 
Spreading plant with weak creeping stems and branches: leaf- 
blades ovate, oval, or elliptic. 9. T. fluminensis. 
