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 Mor.£a Unguiculata. Long-Clawed 



MORiEA. i 



Oafs and Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. hexapetaloidea, 6-partita, fubaequaliter patens laciniis baft 

 parum concretis. Anther* ftigmatibus*petaliformibus vel 

 fubpetaliformibus bifidis accumbentes. Cap/, oblonga obfo- 

 lete trigona. Sem. numerofa. G, Vjeusseuxia ds la, 

 Roche, Defer, 31. 



Oes. Radix lulhus farinaceus rotundus put amine fihrofi parallel iter 

 multi-r'tmofo inclufus. Folia pauca, fapius utiicum, fijluhja a caule fupra 

 longitudinaliter fjja, canaliculato-dehtfeentia, cujpide terete Jlritla terminata. 

 Caulis culmaceus teres polyjlachius ad nodos foliolo jpathecformi invohtcratus, 

 rami vel pedunculi axillares et terminates rarius unicus. Fl>res pedicellati 

 braEleis inclufis difcreti, fuccejjive prodeunles involucre fpathaceo fajciah. Co- 

 rolla fugax involuto-tnarcejcens (jemperne?) 1 acini a geniculate unguibus fub- 

 ereclis vel fubrotata genubus et unguibus obfoletis, 3 interiores modofed rarif- 

 fime defunt. Filament a vel haji tantum vel medio tenus vel omnino cunicuiato- 

 connata. Stigmata in mnnullis imminuta vix petatifonnia at nunquatn non 

 fijjet. £htandoque Jlerilejcunt pedicelli. G. 



Ah Iridi (praterquam habitu) laciniis baud in tubutn connatis apprime 

 dijlinguenda. G. 



MORMA carulea> fpiralis (Bot. Mag.) melakuca, et pufilla ad Aris- 

 team revocanda. G. 



Specific Characler. 



MOR./EA unguiculata; imberbis, laminis interioribus parvis 

 tridentato-partitis : exterioribus obovatis fubacutis 

 unguium anguftarum longitudine, hlamentis om- 

 nino coalitis ungues aequantibus. G. 



When we obferved in No. 577, that the corolla of Mo rje a 

 decayed by twilling itfelf fpirally into a column, we then intended 



thai 



