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SPARAXIS* pSIdula. 



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Pendulous-Cowered Sparaxis. 



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TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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^. ord. Iride* Juss. {Lindley's mtroductim io the natnral sysiem, 



p. 260.) 



SPARAXIS Kev.^Sfipr$, vol. 3. >?. 258. 



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S.jj^nuuia; Wins linearibus gtrictis scapo polystachvo duplp breviwibus 

 spicis pendulis multifloris. r f ^ jr i- ^ ^ 



Iria pendula. rAwnJ. dm. ^n. 16. 



suppl. 91. 



Prorfr. 9. Fl»r. cap. 1. 286. £»w«. 

 PTe/W. 5p. ;jZ. 1. 204. Vahl enum. 2. 66. i?o»ier et 

 ^hultes syst. veg. 1. 392. Spren^. syst. veg. 1. 156. 

 J 7^ atsonia palustris. Persoora syndps. 45. 



^paraxis pendula. JTe/- in hot. mag. 1482 (w textu). Botan. reg. v. 3. 

 ^ g>pe«rf. Spreng. syst. veg. 1. 149. Ker genera Irid. 92. 

 3 ^ rA^ ^igida, perennis, coespitosa, foliis linearibus, acutis, strictis, 

 Pol t h' *'^"^** brevioribus. . Scapi graciles, erecti, apice penduli, 

 6-7^/^ ^P^^*. P^duncuUs capillaribus insidentes, pendula, secunda, 



se ^^'^;-/^^"* ^'"'* capillaribus ad basin pedunculi cujusvis. Flores 

 ^ volt' "^cini, venosi, intrd bracteas (y. spathas) membranaceas, con- 



coM/'"*'7f" °^^'^"*'-*^***^^** Perianthium sexpartitum, sepalis petalisgue 

 jormibus, oblongis, obtusis, sub sole patentibus. Antherae lineares, atro- 

 p Purees. Capsula trilocularis , trivalvis, loculicida, seminibus duobus sub- 

 rotundis brunneis in utroque loculo. 





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. ^ A native of the Cajie of Good Hope, whence it was 

 jntroduced a year or two ago by Mr. Tate. Thunberg 

 ound It growing in wet situations near Kramrivier, with 

 scapes six feet high. In Mr. Herbert's Conservatory, 

 gnere it blossomed in June last, for the first time m 

 ngland, the flowering stems were four feet high, and the 

 length of the full-grown leaves three feet. 



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lap*. V J**" 5-5*-«g«V(r«, to tear. The generic distinction consists in the 

 aerated spathas.— JtoM(io«'s Encycl. of Plants, p. 41. 



