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LIBERTIA* formdsa 



Handsome Libertia. 







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MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA 





Nat.ord. Iride.e Juss. 



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p. 260.) 



LIBERTIA Spreng. (Renealmia #. #r.; Nematostigma Dietrich.)-' 

 Perianthium 6-partitum, regulare ; foliolis iuterioribus majonbus basi angus- 

 talis. Filamenta inferne connata v. distincta, superne patenUa. Mig- 

 mata 3, involuto-filiformia, acuta. Capsuh obovato-clavata. bemina an- 



uto-filiformia, acuta, 

 gulata. Inji 



b -"♦»«• *njiuresveniia suupaiiicuia.ua, iaou>,u.^-»- ~, — m i n pn 



Herbce sylvicolce glabra. Radix /orosa, nunc e rhizomate. f olia 9™™™"' 

 hxa, nervosa. Caulis teretiusculus, quandoque divisus. tasciculi aiterm* 

 mbellati, spathis persistent ibus. Perianthium album, patulum, cito aeci- 

 ***; foliolis exterioribus exits saspius virescentibus ; ^n ™"*'"** 

 vnguiculatis. Capsula membranacea. Seraina bisenata, atra. u. o™w 

 Prodr. sub Renealmia. 





formosa; caule folioso, foliis radicalibus caule brevioribus margine aev bus, 

 laciniis perianthii exterioribus ovatis apice subherbaceis carina! . s inte- 

 rioribus unguiculatis cordatis retusis, filament.s basi cotorentibu., 

 tibus flore minoribus. Graham in Edinb. phil. journal, Oct. i»<«. 



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. ^ are obliged to Mr. Lowe, of the Clapton Nursery 

 Jor the opportunity of figuring this rare plant which was 

 found by Mr. James Anderson in the island of Chiloe 

 Rowing on the sea-shore within reach of the waves, i 

 ! 8 a half-hardy herbaceous plant, flowering m May, ana 

 ^creased by dividing the root-stock. 



Dr. Graham, from whom we borrow the following de 



for this 



Option, judiciously adopts the name Liberia Jor tn.s 

 g^us, in preference to that of Nematostigma g.ven it oy 





* So called in compliment to M 

 g»an botanist. 

 v OL. XIX. L 



a learned 





