TRADESCANTIA COMATA n. Sp.
Perennial, stoutish, pubescent with long villous hairs. Stems erect or ascending, 3-5 dm. tall, simple or sparingly branched, very villous ; leaves lanceolate or narrowly-lanceolate, 1-3 dm. long, acute or short-acuminate, ciliate, villous on both surfaces or glabrate above, somewhat narrowed near the base ; sheaths vil lous like the stem, 1-3 cm. long ; involucre of 1-2 bracts like the leaves but smaller ; flowers blue, 1.5-2 cm, broad ; pedicels usu
ally densely villous ; sepals oblong or elliptic-oblong, 7-9 mm. long, villous, acute or acutish ; capsules oblong, 4-5 mm. long, glabrous; seeds oblong, 3 mm. long, tuberculate-ridged.
Upper districts and mountains of Georgia ; Chapman, two col lections.
Allied to Tradescantia montana, but readily distinguished by the conspicuous villous pubescence.