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Morula Tripetala. Three-Petal-Like 



Morjea. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. — Vid. N os ' 593, 613, & 695. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



MORiEA tripetala (barbata) pauciflora; caule fubfimplice ; 

 extimis unguibus turbinatim divergentibas, foveola 

 ima melliflua infculptis ; laciniis intimis perexiguis, 

 linearibus; filamentis longkudine breviffimi ityli 

 connatis. G. 



IRIS tripetala. Tbunb. Dijf. n. 14. Prod. 11. Linn. SuppL 

 97- J aC( I- Ic- rar- 2. /. 224. Coll. 3. 271. Mart. 

 Mill. Dicl. mild. S p. PI. 1. 231. 



VIEUSSEUXIA tripetaloides. Decand. Ann. Muf. 2. 138. 



Root and Herb as in Morjea tricufpis, No. 6g6, but we 

 have never feen the Item branched. Outer fegments of the 

 corolla fubfpathulate, divaricately patent, their ungues tomen- 

 tofe inwards, channelled-concave, linear, turbinately diver- 

 gent, having a fmall honey-bearing excavation at their bafe; 

 laminae oval-lanceolate, recurved and about the length of the 

 ungues; inner fegments exceedingly fmall, linear, (lender, 

 fhorter than the ungues of the outer one, patent; ftyle 

 fhorter than the ungues ; ftigmas bilabiate, ligulate, inner lip 

 bifid, fegments approximating, linear-oblong; filaments connate 

 for the length of the ftyle into a very fhort tube. 



As the flower was decayed before we obtained it for defcrip- 

 tion, we have trufted in feveral parts of the above to Thun- 

 berg and Jacquin; in the defcription of the former of whom 

 there mufl: be a miftake in the words " filament a longttudine 



dimidia tubi % bafi connata /' there being no other tube than 

 that formed by the connate filaments. 



Found 



