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MARICA iridifolia. 
Rough-edged Marica. 
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TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ENSATÆ. Linn. ord. nat. VI. Nobis in ann. of bot.1. 919. 
IRIDES. Jussieu gen. 57. YRiDEX. Brown prod. 1. 302, 
MARICA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 229. 
Div. II. Stigmatibus subulatis distinctis. SISYRINCHIA. Species Ameri- 
canc tam tropice quam extratropice. Nob. suprà v. 3. f. 229. in spec, 
enum. 
M. iridifolia, foliis ensiformibus, margine scabris, culmo foliaceo-ancipiti 
brevioribus, ramis parallelis & vagina genu; spathis terminalibus; corollà 
extüs inferné germineque pubescentibus; filamento monadelpho infrà 
barbato; capsulà rotundä, nudiusculä. 
Marica iridifolia. Nobis suprà vol. 3. fol. 229 (altero verso in spec. enum.). 
Sisyrinchium iridifolium. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 1. 260. 
Sisyrinchium laxum. Curtis’s magaz. 2312. 
Sisyrinchium. Pavon in exemplari australi-americano Herbarii Lambertiani, 
Perennis, radice ‚fibrosä. Folia radicalia plura collaterali-disticha, an- 
gustiùs ensiformia, margine scabra. Culmus sesquipedalis v. ultra, lineari- 
foliaceus, foliis altior, uniarticulatus, ramosus, ramis 2-pluribus intra 
articuli vaginam aggregatis. Spathæ terminales, multiflore, bivalves, 
lineari-lanceolate, compresse, valvis exterioribus 2 gramineis, naviculari- 
bus, interioribus ffores distinguentibus plurimüm brevioribus pellucido-mem- 
branaceis convolutis, flori cuique uno: pedunculi graciles flexiles, floridi 
spatham equantes, fructiferi longiùs exserti. Cor. ochroleuca, hexapetalo- 
partita, hypocrateriformis, purpureo-striata, limbo rotato, diametro un- 
cic, teneriore, involuto-emarcescente; laciniæ equilonge, cuneato-ligulate, 
plane, mucronate, exteriores 3 alterne, latiores, inferne extüs villosæ ; ur- 
ceolus limbo firmior diuturnior et 5 brevior, flavo et purpureo vittatus, ore 
intüs purpureo-stellatus, fundo flavescens. Stamina laciniis exterioribus op- 
posita, urceolo feré duplo breviora; fil”. monadelpha ; tubus stamineus aureo- 
‚flavescens, ampullaceus, inferne pube densá capitatä barbatus, inde subglaber, 
ore tridendato patens dentibus antheriferis subulato-teretibus obsolete viren- 
tibus glabris: anth. incumbentes, extrorsum dehiscentes, flave, polline grumoso. 
Stigmata 3 subulata patentia apice convoluto-canaliculata erosula antheras 
alterne intercipientia, stylo filiformi viridi duplo breviora. Germen par- 
vulum obovato-globosum villosum. Capsula subglobosa membranacea, nudi- 
uscula ; loculis biseriato-polyspermis; sem. fusca, contactu angulosa. 
We had some hesitation in referring our plant to the 
present species, the germen being described by Mr. Kunth 
as smooth in ¿ridifolia, while here it is plainly furred, al- 
though the fur gradually disappears as the germen ad- 
vances in growth, and is obliterated, or nearly so, in the 
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