taken from a plant that flowered in May, at MefTrs. Grim- 

 wood and Wykes's, Kenfington, and was moft probably in- 

 troduced amongft us by the way of Holland ; Mr. Hibbert's 

 fpecimen, figured in the BotanihVs Repofitory, came imme- 

 diately from the Cape. 



While " laciniis alternis reflexis" remains a part of the 

 effential character of Iris, nearly all the Cape fpecies ought in 

 ftriclnefs to be excluded, and this we imagine has been the caufe 

 that fome of them have been transferred to Mor<ea, with which 

 they agree, in having " petala tria interiora patentia> an- 

 guftiora" but differ, according to us, from true Mor^eas, in 

 having petal-fhaped ftiginas and upright claws or bafes to their 

 fegments or petals. If therefore thefe are to be retained 

 under Iris, the effential character rauft be altered; but 

 it appears to us more convenient that they fhould be formed 

 into another genus, diflinguifhed from Iris in not having the 

 claws or bafes of the fegments united into a tube, but in ha- 

 ving them nearly upright and parted. G. 



