deflex& sordidé lutea medio intus lactescente, petalo- 
rum ungue lutescente obliqué biseriatim striato, lamina 
marginibus reflexis, gibbo medio et unguis marginibus 
pubescentibus, apice saturaté purpureo macula infra 
alba ceruleo-striata ad basim luted ; filamenta disci 
papillis tribus inserta linearia angusta plana incurvo- 
conniventia ; pollen pallidum ; stylus imferne filiformis, 
cristis tenuibus, antic apice subreflexo, posticis erec- 
tis; stigmata lobis discretis obtusis incurvis. Descrip- 
tio ex planta Loddigesiand Spofforthie floridé. ee. 
V. 2. lutea; (nisi per se M. lutea? quod ex tabula picta 
non affirmare ansim) foliis angustioribus erectioribus, 
obsoletorum basi bracteeformiter caulescente, bracteis 
longioribus rectioribus, perianthio sepalorum lamina 
saturaté lutea (ungue 5-striato?) petalorum apice albo 
viridi transversé striato? W. H. 
This plant, (a native of Brazil?) having flowered in the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden during the absence of Sir W. J. 
Hooker, its features can only be gathered from the sketch, 
which is too rude to enable reliance to be placed on some 
of the nice points in the structure and colour of the flower. 
It evidently approaches near to M. humilis, being distin- 
guished, if the drawing is quite correct, by narrower and 
straighter leaves, with a short bracteate stem, by longer 
and straighter bracts enclosing the ramules, and brighter 
yellow sepals, with five instead of four bars of a. redder 
colour, and the ends of the petals white with green bars 
instead of plain purple. If these features should be con- 
firmed by further observation, and should prove invariable, 
the plant may be distinguishable as M. lutea. 
The name Marica was most improperly substituted by 
Scureser for Creura of Auster, which belongs to palu- 
dosa, and must be restored. It was subsequently applied 
by Mr. Ker in 1803 to M. Northiana, which is, therefore, 
the type, and he proposed to add to the Genus the plant 
before called Iris Martinicensis (Trimezia Martinicensis of 
Saispury), with the Ixia Americana of Auster, under the 
name of M. plicata, and perhaps the Sisyrincuium palmifo- 
lium of Linnaus, the two last of which have no close affinity 
to the Genus Marica. The character was so loosely framed 
that other Genera were afterwards blended with it. Marica 
(confined, as it must be, to Northiana and the plants 
which truly conform with it) is distinguished by flat leaves 
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