1826 



TRACHYCARPUS 



K of Ttad jcarpu 

 hi leaf shea Ills 



It Us harclhj 



laijlit excelsus 



Latest Botant il \ i of 

 Trachycai-pus 

 Martiinus, H. Wendl. ( /". Kliasi&mta, H. Wendl. T. 

 iffithii. Decne.). Truuk for the most part naked, 

 annulate : female fls. soli- 

 tary, sessile: drupe oblong, 

 equally rounded at botli 

 ends: seed grooved through- 

 out its entire length; em- 

 bryo opposite the middle 

 of the groove. Himalayas. 

 B.M. 7128. R.H. 1879, p. 

 212. 



exofilsus, H. Wendl. (T. 

 Fortunei, H. Wendl.). "' 



Trunk clothed 

 throu gh out with the old 

 leaf-sheaths: fls. clustered, 



TRADESCANTIA 



triparted, -with linear, acute, ."i-cut lobes : peduncles 

 long, bearing an umbel 2-3 in. across of very numerous 

 blue fls.; calyx-teeth obsolete; petals unequal, the ex- 

 ternal being longer. July-Oct. Australia. B.M. 2875. 

 B.R. 15:1225. p. w. Bakclat. 



TRADESCANTIA 



plants r... 

 less soft < 

 fleshy. 1 



from red to blue ami ,\ 

 ally in simple cynics '■!' 

 3, free, the sep.ils s"ii: 

 species the alt' n 

 usually more or less I 

 ovary 3-loculed, with 2 i 

 single; fr. a 3-loculed dehii 



gardener to 



ctu\ Spider- 

 C. B. Clarke, 

 r. I'lianer. 3). 



/' :ni(l other 



■ ■■.• ilii-y are 



I- aiul petals each 

 ' ! : stamens 6, in 

 I I'T, the filaments 

 I till- base or above: 

 each locule, the style 

 capsule. The genus 

 Zebrina, usually confounded with this by gardeners, 

 differs, among other things, in having a tubular 

 perianth. 



To hoiticultunsts Tradescantias aie known as hardy 

 herbs coolhonse plants and waiml ouse plants i" 

 Viigivica IS the be t Kt own of tl e hard ^^-p^r os w tl 

 stii dmg the climate t 1 1 T 1 ^^ 



leimg Jew of gree 1 

 11 J known as i" ( 1 



erect annual about 2 ft. high, somewhat hairy: Ivs. 1-2- 



pHnts aie k 

 Jew and althu 



three genera it is i ot ei \ to tell 

 tl em apart when not m flower 

 (Fig. 2.)39). These plants are liadeseantia flumtnen 

 sis, sheaths hairy or ciliate only at the top, fls. white; 

 Zebrina pendida, sheaths hairy throughout or at least 

 at base and top, Ivs. redder beneath and always colored 

 above, fls. rose-red; Commelina nudiflora, sheaths gla- 

 brous, fls. blue. The two first are tender to frost; the 



