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spirally twisted; capsule oblong, 8-9 mm. long, glandular-pilose ; 
seeds oblong or ovoid, more or less flattened, gray, conspicuously 
marked with irregular transverse ridges. 
Sandy soil in pine barrens, Florida: Curtiss, 2996 and 4680; 
Nash, 1574. ' 
Many 7Zvadescantias possess more or less glandular pubescence, 
but in this Floridian species, we find the whole plant covered 
with a short glandular pubescence which extends even to the 
petals. Its affinities are with Ziadescantia hirsuticaulss, from which 
it differs primarily in the pubescence and the broader and elon- 
gated leaves which are chiefly confined to the base of the stem 
which they either surpass or nearly equal. The sepais are narrow 
and conspicuously elongated. 
‘ 8. TRADESCANTIA FOLIOSA n. sp. 
Perennial by a cluster of slender much elongated (more than 
3 dm.) roots, rather stout, glabrous above, villous at the base, dull 
green. Stems solitary, erect, 4-7 dm. tall, simple or nearly so, 
very leafy near the base, glabrous or glabrate; leaves narrowly 
linear, 2-6 dm. long, nearly equalling or surpassing the stem, long- 
attenuate, crowded at the base; sheaths large, often densely vil- 
lous, imbricated and sheathing the stem for 1-2 dm., prominently 
ribbed; involucre of 3 unequal leaf-like bracts; pedicels slender, 
I-1.5 cm.long; flowers blue, about 2 cm. broad, the cymes at ma- 
turity dense; sepals ovate or oblong, about 7 mm. long, obtuse, 
two strongly hooded and with a tuft of hairs near the apex, one 
scarcely hooded and nearly glabrous at the apex; capsule oblong, 
5-6 mm. long, glabrous; seeds irregular, 2-2.5 mm. long, not 
much longer than broad. 
In clay soil, chiefly on hummocks, eastern and southern Flor. 
ida: Keeler; Nash, 610 in part. May to June. 
As in the case of Tradescantia longifolia, the leaves of this 
plant are crowded toward the base of the stem but they are much 
more numerous. The sheaths are loose, densely imbricated and 
villous, with very long delicate hairs. The upper part of the plant 
is apparently glaucous, the flowers are small, the sepals short and 
the fruiting calyx small and plump. The plant is destitute of 
glandular pubescence. 
’9. TRADESCANTIA COMATA n. sp. 
Perennial, stoutish, pubescent with long villous hairs. Stems 2 . : 
_ €rect or ascending, 3-5 dm. tall, simple or ‘sparingly branched, ee 
