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MELASPHZRULA GRAMINEA. GRASS+ 
LEAVED MELASPHARULA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. 
Generic Charafer. 
Spatha bivalvis. Cor. hexapetaloideo-fexpartita bilabiato- 
campanulata lacinie fingule feta prepilate. Stam. adfcenden- 
ia. Stigm 3, recurvo-patentia. Cap/ula obovata trilobato: | 
tigona. Sem. globofa in quolibet loculamento pauca. G. 
Oss. Radix bulbus rotundo-ovatus, tunica cruftaceo-fibrofa veftitus, 
bafi truncato-planus, Folia graminea fubulato-attenuata cofta media 
Prominente ; caulis his plurimum altior teres gracilefcens paniculato- _ 
ramofus ; rami foliolis trinis lineari-fubulatis ftipulati, ramult vel pe- — 
dunculi elaftico-capillacei fecundo-florigeri perarcuatim flexuofi. Spa- 
the valvula extima elliptica concava ora producta membranacea. 
oroll facillime caduca: lacinia parum inequaleselliptico-lanceolata. 
tylus ftaminum fequax ; ftigmata antheris imminentia. Capfula — 
Chartaceo-membranacea. Semina rubella, in fingulis loculis 1—3- 
x Jacquino axillariter bulbiferus, bulbilli globofi nitidi nigerrimi ; 
! nobis utique nondum comperti, neque a Thunbergio commemorat!. 
3 ifcrepat a GLapIoLo preter Habitu, fpathe forma, corollz bafi 
hon tubulofa, laciniis fetaceo-terminatis, feminibus haud foliaceo- 
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Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 3 
_ MELASPHARULA graminea. G. : : 
— GLADIOLUS graminens. Thunb.Difl. 0. 26. prod. g. Linn, 
7 Suppl. gs. (exclufis fynonymis) Sy. Vegetab. 
Murr. 86. Sy/t. Nat. Gmel. 112. (exclufo fyno- 
nymo Milleri) Hort. Kew. add. 482. Facg. it. 
rar. 2.1. 236. Coll. 2. 303. Willd. Sp. Pl. t. 
; | ge1. Bot. Rep. tab. 62. cus Recen/. n, 22. 
- GLADIOLUS ramofus. Roy. Lugdb. 19? Sp. Pl. 53? Reich. 
ee 103 2 Syf. Vegetab. Murr. 86? Gmel. Syft. 
(Pee Nat. 110? Mart, Mill. Did. ? ee 
PHALANGIUM ramofum, Burm, prod. fl. cap.? exclufis fy- 
“nonymis, 
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