depression at the base where they are minutely marked with purple. 
The three exterior large, spreading, rather narrow at the middle, dila- 
ted above, somewhat undulating at the margin, traversed from the point 
of dilatation to the apex by a dark purple line, which terminates in an 
acute mucro or tip: the three interior very much smaller, forming a 
double curve, so as to be very much recurvate at the apex, orange- 
coloured at the sides and margined internally by two pencilled lines, 
bordering a light greenish yellow stripe, which passes from the cup to 
the apex. Sramens three, inserted by very short filaments into the 
base of the three exterior folioles. ANTHERS erect, the cells forming 
ll t gin to th ti 3 pollen greenish, ovary inferior, 
oblongo-prismatical. STy.Le = short. ——— dark purple, two- 
lobed, each lobe three-cleft, th ter and obtuse, the inner 
acuminate and horned, the third curved downwards outwardly. Cap- 
SULE three-celled, many-seeded ; seeds small, brownish 
Popuar aND GeoGrapHicaL Notice. This interesting plant is 
the produce of both tropical and subtropical regions of South America, 
being found in Brazil in the former, and near Buenos Ayres in the 
latter. The succession of flowers which clothes its delicate stems 
is not the only circumstance which should recommend it to our at- 
tention. The singular structure of its stigmas arrest our observation, 
from connecting in one series the Tigridias and Moreas with the Iris, 
in which last the stigmas are distinctly petaloid. The great diversity 
of form and character which this small organ exhibits in these plants 
shews how infinite is the’ power of the Original Designer, to whom 
every fresh example of his exquisite contrivances should conduct our 
thoughts. “It is of peculiar importance to our reasoned comforts ” 
observes Sharon Turner, “ to that happiness which we derive from our 
intellectual convictions—that we possess, in the beauties and blessings 
of the vegetable creation, such universal and exuberant rita to 
us, of the benignity and philanthrophy of the Divine Crea 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN ; CULTURE. aaa in 1823, 
by seeds from Hadhics Ayres. For the flower from which our drawing 
was made, we are inbebted to the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe of Bitton, near 
Bristol ; a gentlemen whose obliging attentions we have had frequent 
occasion to acknowledge. 
It should be planted in a light soil, containing a mixture of peat; 
and need not be taken up for many years, provided the bulbs be pro- 
perly protected in the winter. It flowersin June and July, and ripens 
abundance of seeds. 
DerivaTIon or THE Nam 
CyYPELLA — Kv hte ah dageideoe, hate a kind of sane “alladt ng to the cup-like 
depression in the centre of th ou ERTI in compliment to the 
Hionoureeis and Renaud George Herbe 
YNONY 
TicRIDIA HERBERTI. W.H. Bot. Mag. t. 2699. 
Mora#a uERBERTI. Lindley; Bot. Reg. 
PELLA HERBERTI. Sweet: British Flower Garden, II, t. 33. 
