Jacquin, figured, but very indifferently, in an early volume of the 

 ' Botanical Magazine,' t. 1435, while our present plant may be 

 considered the type of the other. To this also will, no doubt, be- 

 long the Tradescantia tumida, Lindl. Bot. Beg. for 1840, t. 42. 

 Gt/anotis nodiflora is a ready flowerer, blooming in June in an 

 ordinary greenhouse. 



Fig. 1. Lower leaf of the plant, — natural size. 2. Entire flower. 3. Stamen. 

 , Pistil : — all magnified. 



