HJMUEA BOUT ITS JAMAlCENSrS, 'n 



3. PEI.TATA. PELTATE. 



Shoot croepinf:^ ; fruoifications pedate, disiiict, rouP.Jjsb.balveJ, entire f 

 fronds clicijoioniouB, witij linear segments ^a/. 



This is thought tu be a species or acresdchu^n. 



4. AUiilTA. EARED. 



8cap.es rail iate; fronclsbipinnateat bottom, pinmte at top ; pinnasat the faaS 

 _ared upwards, ser^ale, convex, shining. Sx. 



5. M^EATA. LINEAR. 



Fronds pinnatc-lanreohite, obliquely cor 'ate at the Viasc, rntire at the ed^e ; 

 the fructifying pinnas crennlate, scaly in the middle. SoJ. 



6. POLYPODIOIDES. POLYPODIUM-LIKE. 



Fronds lanceolate, pinnatifi 1 ; sesjments confluent, ent're, a-^cending witj^ 

 raised dots at the edge ; scape lanceolate ; piauas remote. Su^. 



N'o Engl'sk Xame. MOR.EA, 



Cl. 3, ou. 1. Triandriamonogynia. Nat. or. Ensat^, 



So nnm'^d in iiononr oFR.i K'rt More, Esq. of Shrewsbury. 



Gen. CHvii. al x t>vo-va!'el spailies ; coro'.la six-petaled, three inner p?rts 

 aproadino, all connect^-d at tne claivs intoa ti;be ; the sr;:men3 have three short iila^ 

 nients, vvitii obionj^ aathtri ; the pistd has an interior sjerm, a simple style, and 

 toreebifiJ sdg.uas: t'le pericarp is a three-cornered cipsule, tbree-grooved, tiiree*- 

 eiied; seeds vcrj maay, round. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



P: [CATA. PLAITED. 



Scape ron. id ; leaves petioled, oblong, nened, plaited ; racemes b'fi.L 

 Bulb ovate, covered with red nie i.branaeeous coats, yellow in the uiidiiie; learea 

 radical, from uvo to ihrie feet long, ensiform, broad, uairuwer, and as iuvvere pe- 

 tiuledatttie has , t )waras the root membranaceous, and somewhat sheathintf, purple, 

 lon_!,itu,iinaiiy six nerved, folding over each other, very smooth ; scapes rather longer 

 than the leavf's, roundis.. or cjmpressed a. little, somewhat striated, snioitli, nodding 

 a litiie at top, terujinated by a sputhe-shaped, lanceolate, upright, nerved, leaflet, 

 from the ,sh adiingbas.^ of which i>ues <i pedijnci'e, two inches iont;-, and l)ifij; eacb 

 pedicel has a snjail Itadct un ler it. FIow^ts white, spathaCeous, in a sort of h ad, . 

 rising gralually on very short peilicets. Spathe two-leaved, ancipual ; leaflets ovate, 

 acute, sniihtly ^tria.eJ, keeled, one of them bifi I, smooth, inclosing from six to ten 

 fljvers, seperated by ovate, acute, iiicmbranaceous, |jale, scales. Corolla six-petaled, 

 petals oblong, equal, from upright spreading, veined, vvnite, flat, with the base con- 

 tiguous to ilie a])cx of the germ ^ filaments shrrter tlian the petals, about the apex of 

 the germ, shortly connate ; anthers linear, bifid at the bottom; germ ob-ovate, sub- 

 ti-igonali style awl-shaped, ths length of the stamens j stigrua three-parted, the parts 



iaiiccolate^,' 



