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~ Warsonia Humiutis.. Lake-CoLourepD 
_WaATSONIA. — 
Jee beeie 
Clafs and Order. 
TRIAN DRIA Monocecyrnia. 
_ Generic Charaéter.—Vid. Ns 537 & 553 
Specific Charaéier and Synonyms. 
WATSONIA Jaccata; foliis anguftioribus verticaliter enfi- 
- formibus ftri@is tortiufculis, fpatha tubo fauce 
limboque invicem aqualibus, piftillo lacinias 
ariles acutas regulari-patulas fubaquante. G. 
WATSONIA humilis foliis lineari enfiformibus tubo floris 
longiffimo. Mill. Ic. p. 198. t. 297- /- 2- 
GLADIOLUS Jaccatus. Jacq. Ic. rar. 2. 1.232. Coll. de 
: pe agit. Willd. Sp. Pl 1. 215. 
WATSONIA erubefcens. Herb, Bankf. exempl. capenfe. 
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This is one of the fmaller fpecies of its genus, the Cape 
fpecimens we have feen being generally from eight inches to 
a foot high and the leaves about the third of an inch broad, 
linear and fhorter than the ftem. Corolla one uniform colour 
recurved, in J acoutn’s figure refraéted. Spathe acute. Faux 
a complete cylinder. Segments quite regular, oblong-ovate, 
acute. Anthers above the faux below the ftigmas 4-6 flowers 
in the primary fpike. Differs from WarTsonta rofeo-alba in — 
@ proportionably fhorter tube, from Meriana in a perfeétly 
regularly and recurvedly patent limb, from irédifolia in a pro- 
Portionately longer fpathe, quite regular limb, and equal 
_J¢gments. Flowers in May. r drawing was made at 
| Mefirs, Grimwoop and Wyxes’s Nurlery, Kenfington, where _ 
ithad been lately imported from land. Raifed qriginally 
: ht from the Cape, by Captain 
in this country from feed brought fror ) a 
UTcHINsoN, to MrxxeR, in th 
