949 
til 
MORiEA Herberti. 
M?'. George Hey^bei-t's Morcea, 
TRIANDRIA MOHOGVNtA. 
Nat. ord. Iuide.'e. 
MORjEA.—Suprd, vol. 4.foL 312. 
M. Herberti; foliis linearibus acuminatis plicatis scapo l»evioribu8, scapo 
ramoso terete multifloro : ramis fasciculatis, spathis mflaUs ilore mtilt^ 
brevioribus, sepalis interloribus medio abrupt^ incurvo-revolutis qnkm 
exteriora minoribus imberbibus. 
Tigridia Herbertiana. W. Herbert in hot. mag. t. 2599. 
Obs. M. gladioloidi Kunthii (juam nuixiiue aifiuii?. 
Hexh'A bulbosa : bulbo vcstujiis foliorum tecto. YoXvulinearia, acuminata, 
biplicata, cmgulis plicamm alatis, l(2tt virides, pedales vel cirm. Scapiis 
(^rectus, 2-3 pedalis, fiexuosus, teres, glaucns, ramosus, multijioriis. Flores 
viayni, luteo-aurautiaci, inodori, brevi spatio fiaccidi. Perianthium basi 
campaiiuiatutn : laciniis exferioribus oblong o-spatulatis, patentibus, plants, 
fort IS, apice caudatis, per axin purpuratis, basi semidiaphanis, palltdis, pur- 
purea lineatis ; interioribus nanis, erecto-patentibus limbo reuoluto, apice 
obtuso, medio concavo pallido, utrinque purpurea crebre penicillato. ; ungue 
piano, semidiaphano, purpurea striuto. Filamenta in stipite brevi carnoso 
connata, sepalis majoribus et stigmatibus opposita ; antheree 3, erectee, has- 
tatcE, stigmatibus breviores, loculis prrrpureis. Oyarium 
tria, bifida, medio bidentato elevato. 
This subject was originally supplied for llu" use of the 
Botanical Register, from the garden of the late Honourable 
and Reverend George Herbert, after which lamented gen- 
tleman it was then named by the writer of the present 
article. Some unavoidable delay having occurred in the 
preparation of our figure for the press, the plant has in the 
mean while been published in the Botanical Magazine. 
The difficulty of avoiding repetitions of this kind in con- 
temporary periodical publications is too obvious to require 
explanation. With ourselves, however, they are always 
a subject of regret, because they are seldom advantageous 
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