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 Lapeyrousia Corymbosa. Level-Topped 



Lapeyrousia. 



Glafs and Order. 



Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characlcr. 



Cor. hypocrateriformis : tubas gracillimus in fau:em turbinatam 

 , recto-continuam fenfini dilatatus : limbus 6-partitus laciniis 



regulanbus vei parum irregularibus. Stam. ere6la. Sttgm. 



tria, gracilia, bifida, patentia. Sem. numeroia. G. 



O B s . Plan tula fpitbamea vix ttnquam pedates. Radix hulbus can't co-cam- 

 fanulatus tegument o putamineo reticulato-rimofo bafi dentato-multifido proatate 

 uno vet plurimis imbricatim aggejiu teclus. Caulis fapius ?ra joins fpathifoe 

 dec ur rent t bus aiato-anceps vet triqueter t rigidus (exficcato fubtigneo) rantcfus 

 tnodo ramulofus frutkutam emutans. Folia eififormin, nefjoja, ad marginem 

 tntimam bq/m verfus conniventer fjjilia, in Lapeyrousia fiffifolia apice 

 tenus Juhplana debifcunt, bine tranjverfo-paginata cauli obvftfant. In nonnullii 

 preferttm fpontaneis fpatbarum carina et ftliarum margints flrigofa. La- 

 peyrousia juncea ab babitu prafato plurimum recedit,fpecies forte nimis 

 difparilh, novi generis primordium ? Spica in LAPEYROUSIA iafciculata 

 fafciculato-contraclafpathaque univalves. G. 



Ab Ixia et Gladiolo Jligmatibus bifid: s, a Wat SON I A for thus 

 reclis jeminibufque non angulato-oblongis, a MoR^A tubh a WlTSENIA 

 Jligmatibus trinis difcrepat. G. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



LAPEYROUSIA corymbofa fcapo ancipiti nmulofo, rami* 

 corymbofo-paniculatis furftim pauciflori- 

 geris, limbo regulari tubo cum fauce bre- 

 viore, ftaminibus paten tiffimis. G. 



IXIA corymbofa. Sp. PL 51. Amatn. Acad. 4. 300. Thanh. 

 Dtff. n. 10. (exclufo fyn. dela Roche) prod. 

 9. Murr. Sy/l. Veg. 84. lloutt. Ltnn. Pfl. 

 Syfi. 11. 27. /. 77. /. 1. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. 

 /. 288. Coll. 4. 179. JVilld.Sp. PL 1. 199. 



IX I A crifpifolia Bot. Rep. tab. 35. 



CARYOPHYLLUS monomotapenjis. Phi. Aim. 87. /. 275. /- 1. 



A genus firft propofed by the Abbe Pourret, in a tracT: 

 contained in the third volume of the Tranfa&ions of the Aca- 

 demy 



