(°2n7.) 
SisyRINCHIUM TENUIFOLIUM. NARROW- 
LEAVED SISYRINCHIUM. 
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Class and Order. 
Monapeupnia TRIANDRIA. 
Generic Character. 
Spatha diphylla. Cal. 0. Petala 6, subaqualia, plana. 
Filamenta omnino connata. Stylus 1. Capsula 3-locularis, 
infera. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Sisyrincuium tenuifolium ; scapo ancipiti adscendente folioso, 
spatha triflora, capsulis hirtis, foliis lineari-filiformibus. 
Willd. Enum. 691. Hort. Berolin 2. 92. 
Sisyrincuium tenuifolium. Humboldt & Bonpland. Redouté 
Lal. t. 275. 
Sisyrincuium fenuifolium ; radice tuberoso-fasciculata, caule 
superne ancipiti, petalis planis lanceolatis. Lagasca 
Gen. & Spec. p. 20. n. 270. 
Root fibrous ; leaves linear and linear-ensiform, striate. 
Siem leafy, scarcely two inches long whilst in flower, and 
much shorter than leaves, but lengthening after the flowering 
is over. Flowers yellow, streaked with green, very fuga- 
cious, but coming many in succession. Filaments united for 
about one third their length, afterwards free and divergent ; 
anthers incumbent ; style trifid; capsule 3-angled: angles 
cloathed with dark purple glandular hairs, which fall off as the 
capsule ripens. Native of Mexico, whence the seeds were 
brought by Humnotpt and Bonrtanp. Communicated by 
Mr. Jenxins, from his Botanic Garden, in Gloucester Place, 
in the New Road, in July last; who received it a a 
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