Tab. 5422. 

 SCHIZOSTYLIS coccinea. 



Crimson Schizo$ti/lis. 



Nat. Ord. IridEjE. — Triandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Scliizostylis, Backh. and Harv. — Floret spicati, bi'iracteati ; Irac- 

 (eis hcrbaceis integris, apice vix sphacelatis. Periovnium OOTB liuuni, supcrne 

 hypocrateriforme, tubo gracili, limbi laciniis sequalibus patentib is. Stamina 3, 

 fauce perigonii inserta; jllamenta subulata ; anthera versatile?, basi bilobse. 

 Ovarium oblongum, 3-loculare ; ovula plurima, biseriata. Stylus filiformis, pro- 

 funde trifijus; stigmata subulata, erecto-patentia, apice incurva, integerrima. 

 Capsida oblonga, teretiuscula ; semina (immatura) plurima, obtuse angulata, im- 

 marginata. W, H. Harvey, ms. 



Sciiizostylis coccinea. 



Schizostylis coccinea. Backh. and Harvey, ms. 



The specimen of this lovely Iridaceous plant, here repre- 

 sented, was sent to us by Messrs. Backhouse and Son, from 

 their Nursery at York, in November of the present year, 1863, 

 with the information that it inhabits eastern rivers of South 

 Africa, called Kabousie and Keir-kamma, in Kaflirland. Sub- 

 sequently, Dr. Harvey has informed me that he possesses speci- 

 mens of the same plant, gathered by Cooper (n. 1197 of his 

 distributed collection), near Drackensberg Mountain ; and also 

 from Mr. D'Urban (n. 110), who found it by the Kabousie 

 river, in British Cain-aria, in both cases growing very near 

 water. Again, Dr. Harvey has detected it in Mr. Sanderson's 

 collections from Natal ; and in Mr. Hutton's from the Katberg, 

 altitude 3000 feet, who speaks of it as a " beautiful pink He* 

 perantha" showing its affinity in his eyes to that genus, to 

 which Mr. Backhouse also detected a resemblance. These spe- 

 cimens, besides having paler flowers than our figure represents, 

 have occasionally also the lobes of the perianth more obtuse. 



Descr. The root, which I have not seen, is described by 



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