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Marica Piicata, SMALL-FLOWERED — 
MarIca. 
SERIE EE Sea ae ah eae sk sea 
= ~ Clafs and Order. om 
Trianpria Monoeynia. 
Generic CharaZer.—Vid. Nem. 654. fig: 
Specific Charafler and Synonyms. - ac 
MARICA: plicata ; laciniis obovatis pariter patentibus, caule 
if fupra reclinato paniculato, pedunculis fecundo- 
_affurgentibus, antheris liberis, ftigmatibus fubfol- 
liculofis ufque ftylum difcretis. G.. - 
MOREA plicata, Swartz Fl. Ind, occ. 82. Willd. Sp. PI. 
uD: 243. Mart. Mill. Dif. a 
MOREA palmifolia. Facq. ics rar. 2. t. 227, Coll. 3. 192, 
copsso Cotes Time: de. © OS Se eee = 
SISYRINCHIUM latifolium. Swartz prod. 17. Gmel. Sy/. 
| ‘Nat. 118. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 304.0 
SISYRINCHIUM almifolium. ' Cav. Diff O. 4ae..t. 10. 7. te. 
-  Gmel. Syft. Nat. 118. Nec Linn, Mant. Syit. Veg. — 
ae Wee, Bee Oe ee 
SISYRINCHIUM americanum. Magn. H. Rv Mon/p. 185. 
IXIA americana. Aunblet SAO, te 
FERRARIA parviflora. Salifb. Prod. Hort. 43. 
BERMUDIANA palme folio, radicé bulbofa. Tourn. Inf. 388, 
Plum. Am. 35. t.46. f- 2.0 
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Root a tunicated bulb clothed with dark purplifh membra- 
nous integuments and protruding ‘thick, flethy, fubfufiform, 
perpendicular radicles, Radical leaves e—5, 1—2 feet high, 
ftiff, upright, deep green, laxly plicate, traverfed by 5—? 
longitudinal nerves, which are equidiftant, oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, fpringing from petioled, fubconvolute bafes, mem- 
branoufly dilated towards the bulb and equitant ; ftem centri- 
cal about their length or fomething higher, ftri&, round, naked 
to near the top where it is bent horizontal and becomes a leafy 
one-ranked, affurgent panicle, confifting of a terminal flower- 
fafcicle, and about two common peduncles which are fometimes 
double or twin, but always with the flower-fafcicles ue | 
