longiorem calyci sequalem cohaerentibus, laminis explan- 

 atis ; ftaminibus corollam nequicquam exfuperantibus ; 

 filamentis extra tubum contortis hirfutis, intra flexuofis 

 nudi« ; anthetis ovatis ; germine oblongo, rotundate 

 trigono, villofo; ftylo germen 5-Jes excedente, fubtortim 

 fluxuolo; ftigmate clavato tubulofo, ore crenulato. G. 



TRADESCANTIA criftata. Linn. Syjl. Nat. ed. 12.2 233. 

 Syft. Veg. ed. 13. 263. ed. 14. 315. Jacq. Hort. Vindob. 

 2. 6j, tab. 137. Hort. Kew. 1. 403. edit. 2. 2. 203. 

 M^er burgh. L. 32, IV Hid. Sp. PL 2. 21. 



COM ME LIN A criftata. Lir>n. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1. 62. 



C. corollis aequalibus involucris fpicatim imbricatis Linn. Fl. 

 Ziyi. 13. tab. i;ex tabelia archetypa Hermanniania nunc in 

 Muf<£0 Bankjiano. 



EPHEMERUM z^ylanicum procumbens criftatum. Hertn. 

 Parud. 148. Burnt. Zeyl. 94. Raii Hiji. 5. 556. 



Said to be an annual plant; corolla blue, about 4 lines long, 

 jointedly veined; filaments inferted at the bottom of the tube; 

 ai:' u ers (mail yellow upright, in which the lunulate form of the 

 locular receptacle is lefs evident than in the larger flowered 

 forts; ftyle white; fiigma blue; raceme fhorter than the invo- 

 lucre ; bracles large m proportion to the flower. Very clofely 

 allied to papilionacea ; but differs in being altogether a fonie- 

 what larger plant and lefs hairy, as well as in not having ltauiens 

 that are conrkerably longer than the corolla, which is alfo 

 blue inftead of purple. Found on the decayed parts of the 

 trunks ol old fees, and moid fituations in the Malabar country 

 and the Ifland >f Ceylon. Introduced in 1770 by Monfieur 

 Richard. Mr. Brown thinks that this, with fome others, 

 mould be generically feparated from Tradescantia ; his 

 reafons aie ovided above. 



We are indented to Mr. Verb for the fpecimen. Seems to 

 require to be kept conitantly in a hot-houfe. G. 



