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TRADESCANTIA ERECTA. UpRIGHT 
SPIDERWORT. 
Se 
Clafs and\ Order. 
HeEXxANDRIA MonoeynNIA. 
Generic Charafier.—Vid. No. 105. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
TRADESCANTIA ereGa ; foliis ovatis bafi anguftatis glabris, 
_ pedunculoterminali nudo bifido racemofo. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 17. 
’ TRADESCANTIA ere&a. Cavan. Ic. 1. 53. tab. 7. 4. Facq. 
Coll. 4.114. Je. Rar. tatiars,. Lila 
Redout2, tab. 239. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
U. 2. 205. 
T. undulata. Vabl, 43. Soc. Hy. Nat. Hafan, 2. P. 2. p. 27. 
= fat. B- é 
T. bifida. Roth, Cataleé. Botan. 1. p. 42. 
An annual plant. Native of Mexico. We are told by 
_the Nurferymen, that it fometimes fprings up from the earth, 
which has been fent to them about the roots of plants which 
they have received from Jamaica. Requtres to be kept in 
the hot-houfe; where it attains a variety of heights, and is 
more or lefs branched according to the vigour with which it 
grows. ; 
The fpecies has been fo repeatedly and fo largely defcribed 
by others, that it were needlefs for us to add any of our own 
obfervations. Blooms in July and Augull. Introduced by 
the Right Hon. Sir Jossra Banks, in 1794. G, 
