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SISYRINCHIUM CHILENSE. CHILIAN SISYRIN- 
CHIUM. 
SEEK EE KEE ERE 
Class and Order. 
MonapDeE.puia TRIANDRIA. 
Generic Character. 
Spatha diphylla. Cal. o. Petala 6, subequalia plana. 
Filamenta omnino connata. Stylus 1. Caps. trilocularis, 
infera. 
Specific Character. 
Sisyrincuium chilense ; caule ramoso ancipiti-alato, foliis 
ensiformibus, petalis oblongo-subspathulatis retusis 
mucronatis, capsula pyriformi pubescente, pedunculis 
pedicellisque gracillimis. — 
Descr. Stems remarkably compressed, ancipitate, and 
winged, jointed, branched. Lashes linear-ensiform, striated, 
upper ones gradually becoming shorter and more spathi- 
form. Peduncles sometimes solitary and axillary, at other 
times terminal, and growing four to six together, at all 
times remarkably slender, filiform, four to five inches long, 
bearing at their extremity two linear-acuminate spathes, 
which include, generally, three pedicellated, moderately- 
sized flowers. Pedicels about one and half inch long, very 
slender, curved. Petals six, oblongo-subspathulate, retuse, 
with a subulate mucro, pubescent without, and pale purple 
within, glabrous, and of a deeper purple, marked with five 
lines; the base is yellow: Filaments united into a yellow- 
green, pubescent tube, bearing, at the top, three large oval 
tacege anthers. Germen suboval, pubescent: Style about as 
ong as the stamens, and concealed within them, alittle thick- 
ened below the stigma, which is obscurely trifid. Capsule 
pyriform, retuse, nearly glabrous, three-celled, opening at 
the middle of the cells into three valves. Seeds attached * 
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