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June, some of these may be turned out to take their chance 

 in any warm pond. I formerly placed this genus at the end 

 of Hamodorece, from the structure of its anther, and to which 

 order it surely approaches nearer than to Juncece : a luxuriant 

 flower, however, with three divisions in its perianthium, and 

 three fertile filaments, for which I am indebted to that excel- 

 lent gardener, Mr. William Anderson, has suggested a 

 still closer affinity to some plants of this order. 



COMMELINE/E 



Zygomenes Axillaris. MSS. Tradescantia axillaris. 

 Linn. Mant. p. 321. Commelina axillaris. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. 

 p. 62. 



I received seeds of this plant from the celebrated Sir Wil- 

 liam Jones, soon after he arrived at Calcutta. Koenig 

 says it is annual, which it perhaps may be, there ; but in our 

 stoves it is rendered truly perennial, by being propagated 

 from cuttings, and not suffered to flower loo abundantly. 



Aphylax Spiralis. MSS. Commelina spiralis. Linn. 

 Mant. p. ] 70. 



An annual, discovered by Koenig, in moist places, in 

 Hindostan, which flowered at Kew in 1786, where it had 

 been raised from seeds, sent by him to Sir Joseph Banks. 

 It was preserved in this country, many years after, by Mrs. 

 Green, of Bursted, near Billericay, who was so well known 

 for requesting " cuttings with a bit of a root to them f and 

 whose memory deserves to be cherished by all true botanists, 

 for having cultivated such trifling plants, to serve them, as 

 nobody else would. 



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