COMMELINADS 
700. COMMELINA BENGALENSIS VARIEGATA. This pretty plant reached us from an 
important English collection. It is small-leaved, green, white-striped, and when in light 
suffused with pink. A tricolor effect—that becomes quadri-colored with the intense sky 
blue of the flowers. This should be in every plant collection, as a trailer from the 
edge of a bench, or draped from an orchid raft, or part of any epiphytic ensemble. 
702. COMMELINAD SPP. This commelinad is unidenti- 
fied. It has been so universally admired that we show 
it and list it. The picture speaks for itself. 
704. CYANOTIS FASCICULATA. The  double-strap 
leaves of this new item are bright red when exposed to 
strong light. 
706. CYANOTIS KEWENSIS. This East Indian plant is 
procumbent—the fleshy leaves, red-haired; the flowers 
rose-purple. A pretty item, growing like a transdescant- 
iad. 
708. DICHORISANDRA THRYSIFLORA. This Brazilian 
commelinad has been sparingly grown in Southern Cali- 
fornia greenhouses. It was only last year that we exposed 
é a considerable stock of the plant to a fairly cold winter. 
Commelinad SPP The columnar deciduous stalks toppled at their cleavage 
: points, the leaf nodes, like building blocks. The root sys- 
tem of dahlia-like tubers withstood rain and cold. 
We did not lift and store them, although we recommend that this be done in severe 
winters. Now the plants are growing robustly. We shall be rewarded with huge, rich, 
dark-blue terminal racemes of flowers. We believe that this Brazilian exotic should 
be in every Southern California garden when it becomes generally known that it is as 
easy to handle as a dahlia. 
710. DICHORISANDRA WARSCEWICZII. This plant is much like the last with these 
exceptions. It is more rare; the multiple, vertical stems are more slender; and the ter- 
minal flower racemes are a lighter blue. 
712. GEOGENANTHUS UNDATUS. (C. Koch & Linden; Milbraed & Strauss) . Formerly 
known as Dichorisandra undata. The Seersucker Plant. From Amazonian Brazil and Peru. 
Undulating leaves, ovate, a rich wine-red color on lower surface, contrasting with dark 
to blackish-green upper surface, 
striped with pale silvery green. An ex- 
ceptionally nice, compact, low-grow- 
ing plant for temperatures above 60° 
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714 TRADESCANTIA TAMPICIANA. 
We discovered this plant in a Hawai- 
ian garden. To the realistic illustra- 
tion we must add the striking and 
beautiful color of the plant—entirely 
a soft purple-blue, with a delicate 
overlay of softness from a slight gray 
pubescence. We _ believe that this 
plant is destined to become a sen- 
sationally popular dish-garden and 
house plant. 
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