Jamesoniane.- N. O. Commelinee. 
TAB. DCLIV. 
TRADESCANTIA GRACILIS. H. B. K. 
Caule adscendente simplici vel ramoso, foliis remotiusculis 
brevi-vaginatis cordatis acutis vaginisque ciliatis, pedunculis 
solitariis v. ternis ad unum latus pubescentibus, capitulis 
(vix umbellis) paucifloris bracteatis, bracteis ovatis peltatis 
ciliatis, calycis sepalis apice barbatis, anthers loculis remotis. 
Tradescantia gracilis. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 1. p. 261. 
AB. Tarqui et Chillo, Quitinian Andes: elev. 8000 feet above 
the level of the sea, Humboldt. Morro of Quito, Dr. 
W. Jameson. 
This has delicate white flowers, with deep purple calyx and 
bracteas, and anthers, of which the cells are set very wide apart 
by a transverse connectivum like the top of the letter T. 
