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Wachendorfia Brevifolia. Dingy- 

 Flowered Wachendorfia. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Triandria M onog'ynia. 



Generic Char abler. — Vid. No. 1060. 





Specific Charatlcr and Synonyms. 



WACHENDORFIA brevifolia; racemo Iaxo, foliis Iancco- 



Ja.tis, quinquenerviis, plicatis, villofis. 

 So/and. MSS. in Scheduiis Bankfianis. 



SISYRINCHIUM ramofum Eethiopicum ; foliis plicatis ner- 



vofis et incanis ; radice tuberofa phce~ 

 nicea. Breyn. Cent. /. 37. p. 8 5 . RudK 

 E f j/> 2 - 13-/. 10. (fig. Breymi). 



We believe this to be fpecifkaliy diftind from that figured 

 under the name of hirfuia (No. 614) ; but as we miffed the 

 opportunity of examining the living plant, after Mr. Edwards 

 had drawn it ; we cannot, with precifion, determine, the 

 differences. Breynius defcribes the Item of brevifolia as 

 being a foot high, round, green, and hairy ; the flowers as 

 enmfon intermixed with a tawny yellow colour, with fome 

 foft hairs on the outfide ; the leaves in his figure are diftich 

 one placed above the other edgewife, about half a foot long' 

 and diverging falcately. 



In our drawing, belides the difference of colour, the 

 ftem appears thicker, rounder, and lefs flexuofe ; the 

 branches far more numerous, and placed with much fhorter 

 intervals from each other; the upper lateral fegments of the 

 corolla are far broader, more rounded at their apex, lapping 

 farther over the edges of the lower lateral fegments than in 

 ktrfuta; nor do the deflorefcent corollas (hew the villi t Co 



confpicuous 



