POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



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The largest species of this genus. Leaves 1 8—24 inches hijrh, large 

 and generally dilated at the summit of the tube; appendix large, reniform, 

 mucronate, very much contracted at the base, with the sides reflected, 

 cloathed on the inner surface, with very fine hair scarcely visible without 

 the aid of a glass. Flowers very large. Petals oblong, obovate, yellow. 

 t^tigma nearly two inches in diaiqeter, with each angle two cleft. 



Grows in swamps, abundant in the middle districts of Carolina and 

 Cjeorgia, rarely found along the sea coast. 



Flowers irj April. ' , « 



4. Catesb^i. E. 



S. foil is stride e 

 rectis; tubo iiifimdi 



X 



Leaves firmly 



e 



buliformi 



reel 



? 



ala 



ven 



trali lineari; fauce rec 

 to; appendiqe erecla 



tube fuiiiiei sha- 

 ped^ longitudinal wing 

 liiiear;throat straight; 

 appendix erect^ some- 



\ "rr^""'VA. ^ii^i^ia, I rtupcuuix ereci^ some- 



subreniformi, retieu- j wliat reniform, reticu- 

 Jata^ vems eoloratis. | late with colored veins 



Catesby, tab. 69. f. b. 



Leaves 12 



part 



18 inclies high, regulaily tapering to' the base; the upper 

 rpc .r.A ft,, appendix distinguished by their coloured 



veins, the inner surface of the appendix covered by long and very con- 

 spicuous hair . •^ & J' " 



This plant which has been probably united with the S. Flava, and 



^^r! ,''^, r^''""^ *?^ '?*"** «th^^ «Pe<^'es, appears to me sufficiently 

 distmct ; ,t differs by its ngidly erect leaves, by its throat which is straight 

 and not expanding, and by i^ appendix of which the sides a.e not reflect- 

 ed. It differs also from the S. Flava by its darklv colored purple veins 



Catesby, to which I have referred and were " • • ~ ^ -^ ' 



district in S, Carolina. 



rivulets amidst the high sand 



icbride 



The flowers I have not seen 



. Yariolaris. Mich. 



S. foliis paulo ven- 

 tiicosis, tubo superne 

 dorso maculato; ap- 

 pendice fornipata, in- 



vaia 



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venti 



Leaves 



slightly 



with 



ii:e 



ventricose^ 



tube near the summit 



spotted on the back ; 



appendix aiched^ in- 



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