flowered, axillary, peduncled, the uppermost but one gener- - 
ally sessile, solitary, or two together, of unequal heights ; 
involucrum of two opposite, unequal, ovate leaflets, resem- 
bling the ordinary leaves of the plant. Peduncles one to 
three inches long, angular, straight, smooth, and shining. 
Pedicels full half an inch long, like the peduncles, but re- 
flected when the flower has faded. Calyx of three green, 
boat-shaped, spreading leaflets, hairy upon the whole of 
their outer surface, except at the narrow, transparent, mem- 
branous edge ; hairs tapering, simple, transparent, colour- 
less, arising from slight, glandular elevations. Corolla 
little more than half an inch across, of three flat, spreading, 
ovate petals, pure white, and twice as long as the calyx, 
every where smooth. Stamens six, erect, shorter than the 
corolla ; Filaments colourless, smooth, excepting at the 
base, where each is surrounded with a tuft of jointed, co- 
lourless hairs, as long as itself. Anthers orange-coloured, 
kidney-shaped, loculaments distant, bursting at the edge ; 
pollen yellow. Pistil single, white ; Stigma small ; Style 
longer than the stamens, tapering both above and below ; 
Germen obovate, trigonous, trilocular. GraHam. 
This plant was received by Dr. Granam, at the Edin- 
burgh Botanic Garden, from Berlin, under the name of 
Trapescantia crassula of Linx, in 1828, and it blossomed 
in the stove in the months of December and January fol- 
lowing. We are ignorant of its native country. 
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Fig. 1. Bud. 2.3. Flower. 4. Stamen. 5. A Hair from the Filament 
of ditto. 6. Pistil, 7. Section of the Germen. 
