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TRADESCANTIA CRASSULA. WHutItE-FLow- 
ERED TRADESCANTIA. 
Se eo es i as oe 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynta. — 
( Nat. Ord.—Comme.inez. ) 
Generic Character. — 
Cal. et Cor. profunde 3-partita. Filamenta subvillosa. 
Caps. 3-locularis. Spr. : 
Specific Character and Synonyms. | 
Travescanria* erassula; caule ascendente ramoso glabro, 
foliis oblongo-lanceolatis nitidis glaberrimis integer- 
rimis nervosis vaginisque ciliatis, umbellis termina- 
libus, filamentis basi villosis. ; 
Trapescanria crassula. Link in Litt. Graham in Edin. 
Phil. Journ. Oct. 1828, p. 387. abe 
=e 
. Descr. Stem three feet long, stout, succulent, ascend- 
mg, rooting at the joints, smooth and shining, green, 
occasionally purple, especially at the joints. Leaves four 
to nine inches long, one to two broad, alternate, fleshy, 
ob ongo-lanceolate, mucronate when young, but soon 
Withering at the tip, bent back, slightly channelled in the 
Middle, and reflexed at the sides, naked and shining on 
th sides, sheathing, ciliated, especially when young, and 
at the base: sheaths half an inch long, shortest in the 
‘Upper leaves, ciliated, adpressed. Umbels simple, many- 
flowered 
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* After Joan TRADESCANT, an Englishman, and a great patron of Botany 
Y mn the seventeenth century. 
