Tan. 7658, 
MORAA SULPHUREA. 
Native of Cape Colony. 
Nat. Ord. In1prE*.—Tribe Mor#E&. 
Genus Morwa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 688.) 
Mora sulphurea; cormo globoso parvo, foliis productis linearibus firmis 
glabris canlis basin vaginantibus, caule gracili monocephalo, spatha 
cylindric valvis linearibus viridibus inzqualibus, exteriore minore, 
perianthio sulphureo segmentis omnibus e medio reflexis ad basin limbi 
aurantiaco maculato punctis et lineis brunneis decoratis, exterioribus 
obovato-cuneatis, interioribus paulo angustioribus, styli ramis brevibus 
sulphureis appendicibus lanceolatis. 
This new, slender little Morza belongs to a group dis- 
tinguished by the stems bearing only a single terminal 
cluster of flowers, and resembles in habit MZ. Baurii, 
Baker, and M. lurida, Ker. Corms were received from 
Mr. J. Matthews, of Capetown, in 1896, and which 
flowered for the first time in a cool stove at the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, in April, 1898. Very few of the Morzas 
are now in cultivation, but the number of _ species 
known has gone on, of late years, steadily increasing, 
till it has reached forty-seven species at the Cape, and 
eighteen in tropical Africa, in addition to the gigantic 
M. Robinsoniana of Lord Howe’s island. Many of them 
are very fine plants, with leaves as broad, and flowers as 
_ large as in the European Irises, whilst in others the flowers 
are small and fugitive. 
Descr.—Corm small, globose. Produced leaves two, 
sheathing the base of the stem for some distance, linear, 
firm, dark green, glabrous, three or four inches long. 
Stem slender, terete, under a foot long, bearing a single 
terminal cluster of flowers, and two small sheathing leaves, 
Spathe cylindrical, under an inch long; outer valves firm, 
linear, green, the exterior one small. Perianth sulphur- 
yellow, an inch long, segments all reflexing from the 
middle, and marked at the throat with a spot of darker 
yellow, with radiating brown lines and spots; outer 
segments obovate-cuneate, a third of an inch broad; inner 
June Ist, 1899. 
