120 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Tradescantia. 
tremities erect, jointed, smooth. Leaves lanceolate, 
sheathing. Mouth of the sheaths woolly. Panicles ter- 
minal, globular, many-flowered, hairy. Flowers small, 
blue. Calyx three-leaved, hairy. Corol three-petalled, 
the superior two, large, and ovate, the third lanceolate, 
Filaments simple, inserted round the germ, as longa as the 
petals, without hairs or swelling, i 
4, T. sabrtciite Corom. pl. 2. N. 108. 
Creeping. Leaves lanceolate-cordate, stem-clasping — 
and sheathing. Spikes secured, imbricated with two 
rows of bractes. Corols one-petalled, funnel-shaped. 
Veetla caitu. Rheed. Mal. 7. t. 58. 
Common on wet ground over most parts of India during ; 
the latter part of the wet season. a 
Root annual. Stems or branches creeping, jointed, round, — 
pretty smooth, a small woolly ridge runs from joint to” 
joint, being a continuation of the fissure of the base of — 
the leaf next above ; length from one to two feet, Leaves — 
= stem-clasping, sheathing, lanceolate-cordate, entire, ” 
"womewiat fleshy, beautifully striated ; margins woolly, — 
otherwise smooth, from two to three inches long, and 
about one broad. Spikes terminal, solitary, sessile, re- 
curved over the base of the last leaf, which may be eall- 
ed a common spathe, secund, imbricated with two pairs — 
of lunulate, sessile bractes, each row generally consisting 
of from six to sixteen pair. Flowers sessile, one to 
each bracte, opening in succession, pale blue. Calyx — 
three- parted, ciliate on the back and margins. Corol one- _ 
petalled, funnel-shaped; border of three equal divisions. — 
Filaments inserted round the base of the germ, spirally — 
twisted, and hairy, Style spirally twisted, naked. Stigma 4 
pitcher-shaped. Seeds two in each cell, pitted on the back. — 
Note. The corol being of one petal eaceienr the idea - 
of its being T. cristata, 
There is a variety with dark Glas. flowers. 
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