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a trIDFz (Baker). [ Morea. 
equitent, dark green, rigid in texture, 1-2 ft. long, }-- in. broad ; 
stems 1-2 ft. long, with many short, sheathing, lanceolate, rudimen- 
tary leaves, sometimes procumbent, elongated, and viviparous; 
clusters few, laxly corymbose; spathes cylindrical, 14-2 in. long, 
3-4flowered; valves firm in texture, not pointed; outer small; 
perianth white, about 1} in. long; all the segments spreading outer 
obovate-unguiculate, with a beard down the claw, and a yellow keel 
at the base of the blade inner narrower, concolorous ; ovary cylindri- 
cal, 4 in. long; style and filaments joined in a tube at the base ; style- 
crests lanceolate, 4-4 in. long; capsule ellipsoid, obtusely-angled, 
1-14 in. long. Thunb, Diss. No. 18; Jacg. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 196 
(excl. syn.); Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 693. Iris compressa, Linn. fil. 
Suppl. 98; Thunb. Diss. No. 12; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 
147 ; Handb. Irid. 60. Dietes iridifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Hort. 
Soc. i. 8307. D. compressa, Klatt in Linnea, xxxiv. 584. D. tri- 
dioides, Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. edit. ii. 497. Morea vegeta, Mill. 
Dict. edit. viii. No. 1; Icones, tab. 239, fig. 1, non Linn. nee Jacq. 
Tris crassifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1861. I. moreoides, Ker in Bot. 
Mag. t. 1407; Gen. Irid. 64. Dietes crassifolia, Klatt, Erganz. 40. 
Var. B, M. prolongata (Hort. Leichtlin), Flowers pure white, with segments 
an inch long. 
Coast Region: George Div., Drége, 4555a! Burchell, 6047! Humansdorp 
Div., near Zeekoe R., Thunberg; Uitenhage, Zeyher, 797! Bathurst Div., 
Burchell, 4011! Albany Div., Cooper, 1528! 
CentrRat Recion: Somerset Div., Boschberg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1845! 
Katanari Rea@ion: Transvaal; Barberton, 3500-4000 ft., Galpin, 1206! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Groenberg, Wood, 1099! 
Also hills of Zambesi country, Kirk ! 
45. M. bicolor (Spae in Flore des Serres, tab. 744); habit of M. 
iridioides ; rhizome short-creeping; leaves in a distichous, basal 
rosette, 13-2 ft. long, } in. broad ; stems 1-2 ft. long ; clusters few, 
laxly corymbose ; spathes cylindrical, 2—3-flowered, 1}-14 in. long; 
valves rigid in texture; outer short ; expanded flower 2 in. diam., 
lemon-yellow, outer segments obovate-unguiculate, with no beard 
down the claw, and a blackish spot at the base of the blade, inner 
segments oblong-unguiculate, concolorous, 4-3} in. broad; style- 
crests small, lanceolate-deltoid. Baker, Handb. Ivid. 60. Dietes 
bicolor, Klatt in Linnea, xxxiv. 584; Ergdnz. 40. Iris bicolor, 
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1404; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1886; Pazxt. Mag. 
1x, 29. 
Coast Recion: Bathurst Div.; among shrubs on the banks of the Kap 
River, MacOwan, 2986! and Herb. Aust, Afr., 1538! King Williamstown Div. ; 
near Komgha, Flanagan, 232! 
It was originally described and figured from the en of the Comte de 
Vandes at Bayswater in 1831. size ge 
II. HOMERIA, Vent. 
Perianth infundibuliferm, cut down very nearly to the ovary; 
segments oblanceolate-oblong, not distinctly unguiculate, subequal, 
