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SlSYRINCHIUM LAXUM. LoOSE-FLOWERED 

 SlSYRINCHIUM. 



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C/#ss «wrf Order. 



MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Spatha diphylla. C«Z. 0. Petala 6, subaequalia, plana. 

 Filamenta omnino connata. Stylus 1. Caps. 3-locularis, 

 infera. 



Specific Character. 



Sisyrinchium laxum ; caule ramoso, foliis ensiformibus, 

 spatha subaequali triflora, petalis planis striatis ro- 

 tundato-ovatis cum acumine parvo. 



This new species of Sisyrinchium was introduced into 

 the Chelsea garden in 1820,, by Mr. Otto, Curator of the 

 Berlin Botanical garden, under the name which we have 

 adopted. Besides having white streaked flowers instead 

 of yellow, this plant differs entirely from the figure of 

 Sisyrynchium convolutum, in the Hortus Berolinensis, 

 though the specific character given of that plant in 

 Willdenow's enumeratio applies to it pretty well. 



Communicated by Mr. Anderson of the Chelsea garden, 

 who has treated it as an alpine, and it has survived the 

 last winter exposed to the open air. 



Native country unknown. Flowers in June. 



