302 The Botanical Gazette. [May, 
distinguished by its flowers. It was originally described as having 
pale blue flowers, while in fact they are bright pink. The buds are 
sharply 3-angled and the anther cells are separated bya peculiar broad 
connective. I append a full description of the species. 
Stems slender, rooting at the joints, flaccid, glabrous except a nar- 
tow line of pubescence extending down from the mouth of the sheath; 
joints sometimes elongated, 3.7°" long: leaves thickish, ovate to lance- 
olate, acute, 12 to 30™ long, keeled beneath and often somewhat re- 
flexed, with slightly scabrous margins; sheath short, connate, with vil- 
lous margin; spathe a pair of leaves (not connate as originally 
described) or occasionally of a single leaf: umbel always terminal 
and sessile, 6-flowered; bracts among the flowers 6™™ long, green oF 
purplish, linear, acute, bearing on their margins short stiff hairs: ped- 
icels 12 to 16" long: buds sharply triangular and acute: sepals 3, 
equal, greenish, 6™™ long, keeled on the back and pubescent along the 
midvein: petals 3, bright pink (not “pale blue”), a little longer than 
the sepals, obovate to orbicular: stamens 6 ; filaments all bearded be- 
low; anther cells separated by a broad obtuse connective: style 4 
long as the stamens, slightly capitate—J. N. Ros, Department of Ag 
riculture, Washington, D. C. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XX.—Trdescantia micrantha Tort. Fig. 
bud; 2, cross section of same; 3, flower; 4, stamen; all somewhat et 
larged. Drawn by Miss Mary C. Gannett. 
