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LIX. 
TRADESCANTIA CRASSIFOLIA. 
Thick-leaved Tradescantia. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Junci, Juss. Gen. p. 45. 
Sect. If. Pericarpium 3-loculare. Flores petaloidei. 
Calyx 3-phyllus. Petala3, regularia. Filamenta 6, villis articulatis barbata. — en 
lunate. Stigma plus minus 3-lobum. Pericarpinm . 
papillum i ne sal ad latus prominula. Herbe carnose. . Caules s se@epe dianiiaes: suk 
culati. Folia alterna, bast vaginantia, ovata, ra rius Caricum instar lineari-attenuata. Flores 
in und eademque specie colore variabiles, sepius cerulei, cymis plerumque coarctatis et fasciculos 
mentientibus secundi, pedicellis in fructu deorsum arcuatts. Bractee ad basin pedicellorum soli- 
tarie, preter majorem foliaceam ad basin ramorum. 
T. foliorum laminis ovatis, subtus margineque lanatis: cymis coarctatis: petalis calyce longe 
majoribus, late ovalibus: stylo vix longitudine filamentorum: stigmate amplo. 
T. crassifolia. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p.17. 'T. crassifolia. Cav. Ic, v. 1. p. 54. t. 75. mala. 
Sponte nascentem circa urbem Mexico, juxta aquas decurrentes, legit J. C. Mutis. 
Floret apud nos a Julioin Novembrem. 
One of the handsomest species of this genus, and its flowers are fragrant like the passage 
tes: bat not larger than in the 7', Virginéana, though Willdenow says ‘¢ Flores maxim 
hujus gen 
Steuss. se peti trailing upon the ground, branching at almost every joint, roundish except near 
the inside of the leaf where they are flattened, somewhat woolly. Leaves from 3 to 2 inches 
long: Petiole yellowish with green nerve 
gradually more ee od quite obtuse, 1 a . 
upper surface smooth and shining, more or less concave. lowers in close cymes resembling 
bunches. Peace at the tw: on agence of the | me iats®, the = jog 2 small. Pedicles 
lines in ‘length, horizontal, oval, Sdhvwhat waved; Sos He into a jelly soon after twelve or 
one p.m. Filaments violet, thick at the base. Anthers yellow and moon-shaped, their valves 
Se than the ape Ronde which is fa connected with the filament by an exceedingly small 
poi Pericarpium while young thickly bearded with soft whitish hair, its base smooth and 
ecomuatly er onda “Style not so one but of the same colour as the filaments, cylindrical, 
Communicated by J. Vere, Esq’. in whose collection I have just tn Cnahall 
_ ing most luxuriantly, and am glad to correct my error respecting the opening of its flowers. 
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Contrary to those of the Jdungarian species, they certainly begin to expand, as the Marquis 
Blandford says, phage « fhe creas remaining fully blown all night, and are closed b: 
9 or 10 a. m. 
| = TO THE PLATE. 
“1 A Stamen magnified. 
2 The Pistillum magnified. 
3. tiie cane of the Seed Feud, more —e 
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