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‘Cla/s and Order. 
Trianpdraia MonocynNiA. 
Generic Gharafer*, 
_ Spatha bivalvis {cariofa. Corolle bafis tubulofa: faux tur- 
binata: limbus fexpartitus: lacinie unguiculate. Svam. incli- 
_ Nata (nunquam ereéta) filamenta curva. Stigm. 3, recurvo- 
patentia. Cap/. ovato rotunda. Sem. numerola globofa. 
Oxs. Vide Num. 581. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
TRITONIA miniata ; caule patenter polyftachio, foliis longe 
acuminatis, {fpatha tubo equali, limbo regulari 
deorfum opaco : lacinia nulla gibba, ftaminibus 
piftillo paribus. G. 
IXIA miniata. Facg. Hort. Schoenb. v. 1. p. 10. tab, 24. 
Leaves fix, enfiform, faracuminate, nerved, fubfalcate, up-_ 
right. Stem from a foot toa foot and half high, s—6 branched 
and even branchletted, elaftic, upright. Spathe {cariofe, blunt, 
itriated, the length of the tube. Flowers micaceous Scentlefs, — 
Limb regular, equal, funnel-formed, patent, longer than the 
faux and tube together. Segments obovate, rounded, not 
hyaline at their bafes, nor any of them gibbous. Parts of 
fru€tification declined, affurgent. Piftil equal to the ftamens, 
twice fhorter than the limb. The moft robuft and tall of its 
family yet known to us. Flowers in Auguft. The reverfed 
pofition of the organs of fruétification in this tribe always pre- 
fuppofes that of the corolla, and is perhaps generally the con-— 
fequence of the reclined pofition of the rachis, which changes _ 
the direétion of the flower, in relation to the fun, from that 
which it would have had if it had remained upright, as this 
inverfion is generally obferved in thofe that have fuch reclined | 
or bent rachis, and feldom or ever in thofe that have the fame’ 
upright; we have feen it take place in fome fpecimens of 
Giapioxus where the rachis has been reclined, and not in 
others of the fame fpecies where this was not fo; but in | 
 Warsonta brevifolia, where the rachis is quite upright this 
_ Iaverfion does neverthelefs take place. G. — So ee 
AGN, 581 lin, 6. pot corelle adde bafis tubulofa, 
