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because the original description agrees very well with the speci- 
mens I have collected in the Southern States and the original lo- 
cality lies within the bounds of the range shown by my specimens. 
The plant is usually glabrous except a more or less distinct tuft of 
hairs near the apex of the sepals. 
6. TRADESCANTIA HIRSUTICAULIS Nl. sp. 
enna! by a cluster of coarse elongated (1-2.5 dm.) roots, 
tall AS hirsute throughout with long brownish hairs, or par- 
vend glabrous above, otherwise bright green. Stems several to- 
Sh €r, erect or nearly so, 3-4 dm. tall, leafy throughout, densely 
sia simple; leaves narrowly linear, 2-3 dm. long, more or less 
She rit involutely folded, less densely hirsute than the stem; 
“tg S rather pale, 1-2.5 cm. long, conspicuously ribbed; in- 
aes of two linear very unequal leaf-like bracts which ate some- 
el at smaller than the stem leaves; pedicels slender, 2-2.5 cm. 
Ong; flowers purple, large, 2.5-3 cm. broad; sepals variable in the 
same flower, ovate or lanceolate, 9-15 mm. long, rather villous 
and somewhat glandular ; petals suborbicular, broader than long 
and undulate ; mature capsule not seen. 
Sandy places, Georgia to Florida; occurs at 400 meters on Stone 
Mountain. May to July. ~ 
Florida: Chapman, Wood; Georgia: Stone Mountain, Small. 
A very distinct and beautiful species related to Zradescantia reflexa 
but much more slender in habit. Remarkable for the abundant 
development of brownish hirsute pubescence on the stem, leaves 
and inflorescence. The flowers are larger and of a deeper blue 
than those of Tradescantia reflexa. 
- 7. TRADESCANTIA LONGIFOLIA Nl. Sp. 
Perennial: by a short rootstock and slender roots which are 
1 dm. or rarely 2 dm. long; rather slender, glandular-pilose, dull 
Steen. Stems solitary, erect or assurgent, 4-5 dm. tall, strict, 
Simple or sparingly branched above, densely glandular; leaves 
linear or nearly so, chiefly basal or confined to the lower part of 
the stem, 2-4 dm. long, even the lower ones surpassing or almost 
equalling the stem, gradually narrowed from near the base, flat, 
densely glandular-pilose like the stem; sheaths 2-2.5 cm. long, 
involucre of two small 
Ciliate with long hairs, imbricated below; : : 
leaf-hke bracts, or one often almost wanting; pedicels stoutish, = 
1.5-2 cm. long; flowers deep blue, 2.5—3 cm. broad; sepals linear- — 
lanceolate or linear-oblong, 1 cm. long, obtuse,1% to 2 times — 
shorter than the pedicels; filaments at length as long as the sepals, 
