Tas. 7212. 
MORA‘A Rosinsontana. 
Native of Lord Howe’s Island. 
Nat. Ord. Intprx.—Tribe Moraeam. 
Genus Morama, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 688.) 
Mora Rodbinsoniana ; elata, densissime coespitosa, foliis radicalibus ensiformi- 
bus longe acuminatis, pedunculo valido basi folioso paniculatim ramoso, 
bracteis inferioribus elongatis foliaceis acuminatis, superioribus oblongis 
subacutis, supremis ovarium vaginantibus, floribus amplis breviter pedi- 
cellatis albis, perianthii segmentis patentibus breviter unguiculatis e basi 
liberis, 3 exterioribus late ovatis obtusis basi primulinis et macula auran- 
tiaca 2-loba notatis, 3 interioribus paullo minoribus oblongis obtusis con- 
coloribus, filamentis liberis anthera lineari brevioribus, connectivo in 
apiculum obtusum producto, styli ramis, late oblongis 2-lobis denticulatis, 
lobis rotundatis, crista brevi erosa, capsula clavata obscure hexagona. 
M. Robinsoniana, Moore & Muell. in F. Muell. Fragment. vol. vii. p. 153 
Benth, Fl. Austral. vol. vi. p. 409. 
Iris Robinsoniana, F. Muell. lc.; G. Benn. in Gard. Chron. 1872, 393, | 
fig. 128, 124; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. (1878) 147; W. Watson in 
Gard. Chron. 1891, i. 457, 459, fig. 94, 95. 
Perhaps the most! curious point in the history of this 
magnificent plant is the difficulty hitherto experienced in 
flowering it in Europe. The first person who called atten- 
tion to its existence was the late Dr. Foulis, of Sydney, a 
gentleman who had resided in Lord Howe’s Island, and 
who informed Mr. Moore, of the Sydney Botanical Gardens, 
and Dr. G. Bennett, of that city, that he had discovered it, 
and had introduced it some years previously into his garden 
(at. Sydney) where it had died without flowering; he 
further added that it was known to settlers in Lord Howe’s 
Island as “‘ the Wedding flower.” Dr. Bennett’s account 
of it was communicated to the Gardener’s Chronicle (1872, 
p-. 393), together with a sketch of the whole plant, and of 
a flower, by Mr. E. Bennett. The first botanical account 
of it is that contained in Mr. Moore’s “ Report on the 
Vegetation of Lord Howe’s Island,’’ dated September, 
1869, where it is described as an Iridaceous plant resembling 
a large species of Mora (but which would probably prove to 
be a new genus) with leaves six feet long by two or three 
Janvany Ist, 1892. | 
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