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through the whole substance of the petal, and not collected 

 into kernels placed below openings in the cuticle. The office 

 of this kind of tissue is apparently to secrete the honey that 

 abounds in the flowers of this plant ; in which respect it also 

 corresponds with the probable functions of the brown glan- 

 dular kernels of Nepenthes, by which it is suggested, in the 

 work above quoted, that the water contained in the pitchers 

 of the Pitcher Plant is secreted. 



Hydroteenia differs from Sisyrinchium in having the an- 

 thers opposite the primary lobes of the style ; from Tigridia 

 and all its allied genera, in having a campanulate flower, 

 equal sepals and petals, and a secreting zone upon the latter 

 near their base. The following is a technical description of 

 the genus. 



Hydroteenia (Iridacece). Perigonium campanulatum, subisomerum ; petalis 

 unguiculatis supra unguem zona triangular! melliflua fasciatis. Stamina 3, 

 monadelpha, sepalis opposita ; anthers; sessiles, basi-fixa?, loculis connecti- 

 vum marginantibus. Ovarium inferum, apice liberum conicum ; ovula 

 plurima angulo centrali loculorum inserta ; stylus filiformis apice trifidus : 

 laciniis 3-partitis linearibus convolutis : intermedia nana antheris opposita, 

 lateralibus geminatim inter antheras projicientibus. 



Sp. 1. Hydroteenia Meleagris Mexico ; In pascuis alpinis prope aurofodinas 



Regiomontanas. 



Caulis sesquipedalis, monophyllus. Folium ensiforme, plicatum, unciam latum, 

 spatha paulo brevius. Spatha cucullata, foliacea, 4-5-flora. Flores fuga- 

 cissimi, a pedunculo gracillimo penduli. Perigonium campanulatum, 1^ 

 pollicem altum, extus fusco purpureum, intus pallidum ; fasciis quibusdam 

 interruptis sanguineis in petalis. Sepala cuneata, mucrone debili aristata, 

 concolora. Petala ajquilonga, pariter aristata, unguiculata, cordata, zona 

 supra unguem lutea mellifera triangulari, cui tela cellulosa grumosa, compacta 

 et glandulosa est. Stamina in tubum longum connata ; antherae sessiles, pa 

 tentes, sepalis opposite ; connectivo carnoso loculis polliniferis circumdato. 

 Stylus filiformis, 3-fidus ; brachiis antheris oppositis, linearibus, convolutis 

 3-partitis: lacinia intermedia nana, lateralibus margine interiore unidentatis 

 inter apices papillosis. Ovarium 3-loculare, apice liberum, conicum ; ovulis 

 plurimis, ascendentibus. 



129. MORRENIA odorata. 



This plant has been raised in the garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, from seeds obtained from Buenos Ayres by the 

 Hon. W. F. Strangways, and flowers in August and Septem- 

 ber in the greenhouse. In habit it is similar to Oxypetalum 

 Bajiksii, and like that species twines round sticks or trellis 



