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SISYRINCHIUM MACULATUM. SpoTrEp- 
FLOWERED SISYRINCHIUM. 
Class and Order. 
Monapereuia TRIANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Iriwez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Spatha diphylla. Perianthium simplex, corollinum, pro- 
funde 6-partitum, aquale. Filamenta comnata. Stylus 
simplex. Stigma trifidum. Capsula 3-locularis, infera. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Sisyrincnium maculatum ; caule folioso ancipiti-compresso, 
foliis lineari-ensiformibus, pedicellis longitudine spa- 
the albo-membranacez acuminate, perianthii laciniis 
obovatis acutis, tribus macula magna atro-sanguinea, 
stigmatibus subulatis, ovario glanduloso. 
Descr. Stem, in our plant, scarcely more than a foot 
high, remarkably compressed, green, bearing four to five 
linear-ensiform, acuminated, striated, equitant leaves, the 
lower ones the longest, and about a span in height, all 
of them full yellow-green, scarcely at all scabrous. From 
the upper and shorter leaf arises a panicle of seve 
three or four of which proceed together from a 
spatha, only one however, flowering at once. Spathas lan- 
ceolate, conduplicate, green, with a broad, white, mem- 
branaceous margin, within which are a few membranaceous 
bractee. Pedicels equal in length with the spatha, or 
scarcely exceeding it. Perianth of six obovate and some- _ 
what cuneated, acute, spreading segments of a full = - 
yellow colour, pale at the claws, and with a deep blood- — 
red spot just above the claw ; the three alternate ones with 
a large horse-shoe-shaped spot or cloud of the bers 
