'TRADESCANTIA PILOSA. 
WORT. 
[AIRY SpPIDER- 
JESSIE 
Class and Order. 
HexanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord —ComMeELinEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. et Cor. profunde tripartite. Filamenta plerumque 
villosa. Capsula 3-locularis. Spr. 
: Specific Character and Synonyms. 
igor alee 
co ait 
TrapescantiA pilosa ; caule erecto flexuoso geniculato-no- | 
doso superne villoso, foliis lanceolatis, superioribus 
bracteisque lanceolatis, pedunculis calycibusque valde 
villosis, floribus terminalibus umbellatis. : Jog: 
Trapescantia pilosa. Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1827. 
Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1175. 
Trapescantia Virginica ~. Red. Lil. sub fol. 98. 
Raised from roots sent by Mr. Drummonp from Louis- 
jana to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it flowered __ 
during the autumn of 1833, and requiring the same treat- 
ment with its allies T. Virginica and T. subaspera. From _ 
both of these it differs in the extremely hairy leaves and _ 
flower-stalks and calyces and smaller flowers, and from T. 
Virginica 8. pilosa, Linvt. in Bot. Reg., by the very hairy 
(not ect ciliated) and vastly broader and shorter foliage. 
From Dr. Leuman’s T. pilosa it only seems to depart in the 
absence of glands on the pedicels and calyx. | 
Descr. Stem two to three feet high, dichotomously 
branched and jointed, swollen at the joints, particularly in 
the lower part of the stem, which, moreover, is quite gla- 
brous, whereas the upper part is densely hairy. Leaves 
embracing their stem at the base, but scarcely sheathing, 
lanceolate, 
