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MOR^A LONGIFLORA. LoNG-FlOWERED 



Mor/ea. 



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C/tf/} jt/J Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — #V& iV '- 593, 613, & 695. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



MORyEA longiflora ; caule fimpliciflimo, enodi ; fafcrculis 

 geminis a bracleis confimilibus longioribus ob- 

 vallatis capitatim tcrrainato ; tubo filiformi, longo, 

 eminente ; unguibus fubcyathiformi-conniventibus, 

 laminis inaequalibus, obovato-oblongis, recurvatis; 

 germine inclufo. G. 



Bulb-tuber as moft ufual in the genus, as are the leaves; 

 Hem fhort, filiform, fimple, not jointed, naked, terminated 

 by a fafcicle of feveral convolute, acuminate leaves, enclofing 

 two feffile capitately terminal many-flowered involucres, the 

 bracles or valves of which are fhorter than the outer leaves 

 of the furrounding fafcicle. Corolla yellow ; tube long, fili- 

 form, (lender, projecting confiderably beyond the involucres ; 

 fegments unequal, recurved, outer ones nearly three times 

 larger, obovate, blunt, inner ones of the fame form ; ungues 

 upright, cyathiformly converging; ftigmas petaloid, bifid, 

 their fegments linear-oblong, blunt, refle&edly connivent. 

 The limb of the corolla decays by partly rolling inwards and 

 partly by twilling fpirally. Ge'rmen concealed within the 

 involucres. As the flower was decayed before we could fee it 

 for defcription, we cannot fay whether it is bearded, its fila- 

 ments monadelphous, or what fcent it may have ; but the ex- 

 cellence of the draughtfman has left us only thefe three cir- 

 cumltances to regret. 



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