Tar 6380. 



MAKICA BRACHYPUS. 



Native of the West Indies. 



Nat. Ord. Iridace*:.— Tribe Euiride.se. 

 Genus Marica, Ker. ; {Baker in Joum. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 149). 



Marica braehvpuBj foliia distichis ensiformitraa saturate viridibus sesquipedafi- 

 inis, llonbus 5-0 m glomerulus! unicum propc basin scapi impositum aggre- 

 gatw, spathaj valvis magnis iirmis navicularibus, pedicellis spatba? valvis 

 derautn ajquilongis, perianthii lutei segmentis inferne rubro-brunneo macu- 

 late, extenonbus multo majoribus planis oblongis, interioribus panduriform- 

 lbus convolutis, antheris stigmatibus agglutinatis filamento eequilongifl, 

 stigmatibus petaloideis citrinis apice longe tricuspidatis. 



M. brachypus, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 150. 



Cypella bracbypus, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 138. 



This is a new Marica very like the old well-known M. 

 Nortliiana (Bot. Mag. t. 654) in general habit, but with 

 yellow flowers produced low down upon the flattened leaf- 

 like peduncle. I disagree with Dr. Klatt is using the name 

 Ct/pclla for this genus. Cypella was founded by Herbert 

 upon the curious hardy bulbous plant from Buenos Ayres, 

 which was originally figured in ' Bot. Mag.' t. .2599 under 

 the name of Tigridia Herbertiana, now common in gardens, 

 and afterwards called by Tenore Polia bonariensis. This is 

 a good genus, and to transfer the name to these very different 

 rhizomatous plants with flattened scapes can only create con- 

 fusion. The present plant was imported by Mr. Wilson 

 Saunders, from Trinidad, about the year 1871, and presented 

 by him to the Royal Gardens several years later. With us 

 it flowers in August, and requires stove-treatment. 



Descr. Rootstock stout, vertical. Leaves six or eight in 

 a tutt, bright green, ensiform, firm in texture, a foot and a 

 half long, an inch or an inch and a half broad. Scape 

 similar to the leaves, producing a few inches above its base 

 a single cluster, which contains five or six flowers, which 



AUGUST 1ST, 187H. 



