Tas. 5188. 
TRADESCANTIA WarszZEwWICZIANA. 
Warszewicz’s Spiderwort. 
Nat. Ord. ComMELYNE%.—HExanpDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores vegulares. Sepala 6, libera, patentia; tria exteriora navi- 
cularia, persistentia ; tria interiora majora, petaloidea, breviter unguiculata, mar- 
cescendo persistentia. Stamina 6, subhypogyna, omnia fertilia. Filamenta li- 
bera, plerumque barbata. Anthere conformes ; loculis reniformibus, connectivo 
varia forma distinctis, interdum tres sepalis exterioribus opposite robustiores, 
loculis replicatis extrorse filamentisque brevioribus sustentate. Ovarium sessile, 
triloculare; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Stylus 1. Stigma simplex, obtu- 
sum, infundibulare vel peltato-ampliatum. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis, valvis 
medio septiferis. Semina bina, superposita, angulata.—Herbee Americana, erecte 
vel diffuse, sepe repentes. Folia indivisa. Vagine integre. Pedunculi axillares 
et terminales, solitarii, gemini vel plures, apice umbellato-pauci-multiflori, sepe 
brevissimi, subnulli, folioque duplici, involucrati. Kth. : 
TRADESCANTIA Warszewicziana; caule robusto erecto subarborescente dicho- 
tomo, ramis dense foliosis, foliis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis striatis basi vagi- 
natis, pedunculis axillaribus foliis multo longioribus subpaniculatim ramosis 
ramis bracteatis, floribus bracteatis in racemis secundis scorpioideis disposi- 
_ tis, sepalis petalisque lilacinis, staminibus conformibus, filamentis imberbibus, 
stigmate obtuso. 
TRADESCANTIA Warszewicziana. “ Kunth et Bouché, Index Seminum in Hort. 
Bot. Berol. 1847, p. 11.” Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 1. p. 886. 
This is really a handsome stove-plant, and deserving a place 
in every collection, especially when it is old enough to form a 
dichotomous, subarborescent, stout stem, with recurved leaves, 
having a good deal the appearance of an Aloe, still more of some 
Dracena; and the flowers are not only numerous and of a 
bright purplish rose-colour, but by the constant succession of 
flowers, the blossoming (in the spring and early summer) is of 
long duration. It is said to be a native of Guatemala, and is 
of easy propagation by cuttings. 
Descr. Sfem in our plants a foot or foot and a half long, 
stout, forked, terete, having a subarborescent character, and 
marked with the scars of fallen leaves. ‘The branches are leafy, 
chiefly towards the apex. Zeaves a span to a foot long, from 
JUNE Ist, 1860. 
