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“Marica PALUDosA. MARsH Manica. | 
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Cla/s and Order. : 
TRIANDRIA Monocynta. 
Generic CharaGer. —Vild, infra New. 6 5+ 
= Soseihe Charader and Synonyns. 
_ MARICA paludofa; foliis petiolato-plicatis échue lamellato- 
4 coftatis caule terete plurimum altioribus; corolla 
laciniis intimis ereétioribus — minimis cochleari- 
concavis apice recurvulis, G. f 
MARICA paludofa. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 246. Mart. Mil, I. Ditte : 
- MARICA Cipura. Gmel. Syft. Nat. 118. 3 
CIPURA 5 Giggs x ag F Pp 38. te As : 
Root a yoaad sinigeed balb Gorcied wih membranous in- 
teguments. Leaves radical, about a foot high, narrow-lan- 
ceolate, ‘laxly plicate, theve‘perved or thereabouts, with lon- 
gitudinal parallel lamellofe ribs, thin, grafs-green, quite f{mooth, 
far-acuminate, upright, {pringing from even petiole-like con- 
' volute fubmembranous bafes, ¢ equitant. near the bulb, Stem 
round, fhort, ftri@, terminated by the flower-fafcicle, which 
rifes from the boferi. of a two-valved involucre, the outer _ 
valve of which is fimilar to the leaves and though fmaller yet far 
longer than the fafcicle and even with the fummits of the other 
leaves, inner valve feveral times lefs, convolute. Pedicles of — 
the fafcicle equal to their valves, one-flowered; flowers feveral, 
expanding in fucceffion, and but of very fhort duration; a 
defcription of them will be found in the generic charaéter bad 
obfervation intended to accompany two other fpecics in the | 
next fafciculus. A native of Guiana, where it was found by 
Auscer in moift meadows (Savannahs) at the foot of Mount 
Courou, flowering in Auguft ; he fays it varies with blue 
flowers. Our drawing was made at Mr. Wooprorp’s, who 
Teceived it from the Botanic Garden of the Ifland of St. 
Vincent’s ; with him it flowered laft year in June, moft pro- 
_ bably for the firft time in Europe. It requires to be ~~ in 
the tan-pit of the ftove. — ae 
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