i : i 
so HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNTA. = 209 
to be at Camden in South Carolina, from which point 
4 cotton is more profitably cultivated and sickness more 
general.—tts central, black, elastic and curled fibres, 
} which remain after maceration, are not much unlike horse 
hair, and are used for similar purposes, such as stuffing 
mattrasses, kc. aii 
‘The venerable W. Bartram informs me of the existence 
i ofa Bromelixform species of Tillandsta, near the mouth 
ofthe AKamaha, This is probably 7° polystachia of Muh- 
lenberg’s Catalogue, fig ee 
f This interesting and singular genus, consisting of 26 
species, is, with the above exceptions, exclusively indige- 
. nous t> tropical Am a‘ca, forming with many other para-— 
sitic plants one of the .tust singular features of its vege- 
tation. 
$03. TRADESUANTIA. L, (Spider-wort.) 
: ‘Caiix 3-leaved Petals 3. Filaments villous. 
; Capsule 3-celled, few-secded. 
Habit similar to Commelina, differing, however, in the 
disposition of the flowers which are produced in unequal 
terminal umbells, subtended by a long, 2 or3-leaved invo- 
luctum, and in the filaments which are bearded. <"s 
“Species. 1. V. virginicu. Throughout the Atlantic — 
states, and westward into Upper 1! oulsian 2. rosea. y . 
‘This genus is almost exclusively indigenous to India 
and tropical America, there being, besides the-above, but 
a single species hitherto discovered in the rest of the 
world, viz. at tie Cape of Good Hope ( Africa.) 
$04. DIPHYLLEIA. AMichaux. 
Calix 3-leaved, deciduous, Petals 6, opposite 
the calix. Anthers growing to the filaments, 
cells opening from the base to the summit by so 
many vertical clastic valves. Berry 1-celled. 
Seeds 2 or 3, roundish. — 2 : 
Stem 2-leaved; leaves excentrically peltate, palmately 
lobed and semibifid; flowers in a terminal, solitary, ume 
bellate cyme. (Petals obsolete S-nerved. Valves of the _ 
anthers conspicuous, spreading horizontally, persistent; 
_ germ ovate, excentric, 2 to 4-seeded; style none; stigma 
ile, transverse, sinuately curved, liptormed, lacunose. 
nt, tough proximately allied to Caulophy!!um and — 
