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MoRiEA SPICATA. FLEXUOSE MoR^EA, 



C/tf/} awi Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — Fid. No. 1033. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



MOR JE A fpicata ; (imbcrlis ; corolla uniform is, fub<equalis ; 

 ftigmata compcndiofe petaliformia ;) folio infimo e 

 fiftulofo-vaginante convoluto-lorato, tereti-cufpi- 

 dato, caulem exfuperante ; caule pluriarticulato, 

 flexuofo, fpathacee foliofo, fubuniramofo ; fpathis 

 unifloris?, herbaceis, cucullato - convolutis, ad 

 lingula genua feflilibus, proximos articulos invol- 

 ventibus, terminalis externa valva in cufpidem 

 ultra florem prominentem excurrente ; floribus 

 remote appreflo-fpicatis; germine triquetro-pedun- 

 culoideo, inclufo ; corolla hypocrateriformi ; laci- 

 niis fubfpatulato-oblongis ; unguibus in cyathum 

 claufis; laminis iftos fubaequantibus, obovato- 

 oblongis, rotatim explanatis; filamentis cylindraceo- 

 connatis?; ftigmatibus angufle cuneatis, antheras 

 asquantibus, ungues parum excedentibus, erecio- 

 divergentibus, labio intcriore bidentato. G, 



MOR^EA fpicata. Nobis fupra No. 1103 m S P ec - s )' ni ^' ^' 

 Plant. Capcns. Cod. Bankf. cum Exempt, in Herb. 



Differs from collina (N i5 * 1033 & 1103) in having a feveral- 

 jointed flexuofe Hem, with a one-valved ?, one-flowered ? 

 ipathe fituated at each joint, forming a kind of remotely-flowered 

 fpike ; in collina the inflorefcence is difpofed in a feveral-valved 

 feveral-flowered terminal fpathe, the valves being arranged one 

 within the other on a fhort receptacle in a convolutely equitant 

 fafcicle; in fpicata the receptacle is drawn out into a feveral- 

 jointed rachis with a fingle flowered ? fpathe at each joint ; the 

 upper fpathe is befides lengthened into a point that reaches 

 beyond the flower ; which is not the cafe in collina. As we 

 did not examine the living plant of fpicata^e cannot fay in what 

 other refpe&s they may differ. Nearly allied to virgata and ele- 

 gans. Found at the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Masson. G* 



