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Watsonia Plantaginea. Small- 

 Flowered Watsonia. 



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Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character, 

 Vide No. 537. 



Obs. ulter. Subinde vivipara. Caulis rarijfimt anceps. 

 Stamina Japius adfeendentia aniheris parallelis (tequa fronte di- 

 gefiis) in nonnullis vero ereSia jlylum Jupra trifariam fiipantibus 

 his quoque foliorum margines cartilaginei, faux brevior turbinato- 

 conlracla> Jemina vix alata, nee inde genere eliminandis t ceteris 

 prorfus confentaneis. Bulbus intra tunicam geminos confimiles % 

 unicum e feapo pertranfeunte dififfum Jimulantes, quotannis enititur, 

 hifque jam ^adoletis per it. Radicationis habitum in Ixia et Gla- 

 dioto, ab eodem in Watfonia aliquantulum difcrepantem t alibi pro- 

 fcremus. Gawler. 



Specific Char after and Synonyms. 

 WATSONIA plantaginea ; foliis lineari-enfiformibus ftri&is 



infimo falcato, compreffb - fiftulofo : caeteris 



plano-folidis, caule alato-ancipiti, fpica dif- 



ticha fubamentiformi, limbo aequali campa- 



nulato-patente. G. 

 IXIA plantaginea. Hort. Kew. 159. Willi. Sp. PL 1. 200. 

 IXIA triticea. Burm. prod. fl. cap. 1. 

 GLADIOLUS alopecuroides. Ihunb. Dif. 14. proi. 8. Sp. 



PL 54. Am<en. Acad. 4. 301. Syjl. Veg. Murr, 



86. Gmel. Syjl. Nat. 111. 

 PHALANGIUM fpicatum." Linn. Pfi. Syjl. 11 p. 129. /. 8. 



/. 2. 

 PLANTA aethiopica, alato caule fru&um capfularem grani 

 tritici aemulum in longa fpadicea proferens. 

 Pluk. Am. 173. /. 439. /. 3. 



Descr. Scape ancipital, 1—2 feet high. Leaves three, 



alternate, enfiform, fomewhat falcate acute, lower one com- 



Preffedly fiftulofe, chambered, upper ones folid, flat, ftiffifh, 



far-meathing, and beyond the fheaths fhorter than the 



6 7 loweft. 



