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MoRiEA Papilionacea. Dwarf Mor^ea, 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charatter.-~-Vid. N os - 593, 613, Sc 695. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



MOR^EA papilionacea (fubbarbala) foliis duriufculis, caulc 

 fimplice longioribus, extus linearis, utrinque pu- 

 befcentibus ; fpatha anguftiore longiore ; unguibus 

 laminas lanceolato-ovales et pariter patentes aequan- 

 tibus, extimis bafifoveola melliferainfculptis. G. 



IRIS papilionacea. Linn. Suppl. 98. Tbunb. Dijf. n. 37. /. 2. 

 f. 1. prod. 12. Jacq. Coll. Suppl. 159. /. 3. /. 2. 

 Mart. Mill. Dicl. Willd. Sp. PL 1. 238. 



Bulb-tuber as ufual in the genus. Leaves about two or 

 three, 3 — 5 inches in length, rather longer than the ftem, 

 Itiffifh, pubefcent on both fides, but more fhaggily fo on the 

 outer, where it is alfo lineate. Stem fimple, terminated by a 

 longifh narrow-convolute fafcicle of 2 — 3 flowers. Corolla 

 regular divided to the bafe into fix petal-like fegments ; the 

 ungues of which are upright and converge cyathiformly, about 

 the length of the laminae, outer ones broader, flightly bearded 

 within, with a fmall round honey-bearing cavity at their bafe ; 

 laminge lanceolate oval, equally patent. Style very fhort, 

 twice fhorter than the germen, and 4— -5 times fhorter than 

 the ungues ; ftigmas petaloid, rather fhorter than the inner 

 fegments, linear-lanceolate, divided to far below the bafes of 

 the laminae, fegments narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, upright ; 

 inner lip rounded. Filaments connate for the length of the 

 fhort ftyle, then diverging ; anthers linear-oblong. It varies 

 much in the colour of its corolla ; of thefe varieties we have 

 feen feveral excellent drawings in the Bankfian library made 

 at the Cape; all agreeing with ours in ftature ; it poffeffes a 

 very pleafing fragrance. Thunberg and Jacquin make the 

 corolla beardlefs (imberbis) which certainly was not the cafe 

 in our fpecimen, although this pubefcence was very flight. 



Found by Thunberg in abundance in fandy fpots near Cape 

 Town, in their Spring and our Autumn months. G. 



