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“PLATE CCCLXIV. 
PRIS PA YUON I A. : 
2 The Peacock-Ins. 
SS CLASS WR CORDER I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNI4. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. y 
Corotta 6-partita: laciniis alternis reflexis, | Corowa 6-parted : with the alternate fegments 
Stigmata petaliformia. reflexed. The ftigmas petal-fhaped. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &e. 
Iris, fechas, folio lineari glabro, fcapo fab- Lag Tris. © Beard efs, with a linear fmooth leaf, and. 
unifloro a ufually one-flowered ftem. 
In1s Pavonia Willd, Sp. Pl. d. 238. 
Jacq. Coll, Sup. p. 8, Sa optima. 
a . : % 
: ‘REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
£ “The outer Sheath of the Flower. ‘, . ef 
ee \ * 2, The inner one. .* 
ae : 3. The Seed-bud, Chives and Pointal as they Randi in n the Flower. * : 
RE s. is4.. The Se —_ open, . § 4 
ee alameda ts " ae 3 ‘es 
ee ey = 
Tarts fplendia t iat fugitive plant, is ftrikingly emblematic of the fhort Seaton Be ar oe 
7 its flower is bu ut the tranfient objeét of a day ; and its whole life in E ii 
“e The P acock-Iris, notwithftanding its attractions, i is but imperfeétly underftood by the Botanifte! te 
and Horticuleuritis of this country ; for while the latter have been unfuccefsful in ctivating it: fome 
: of the former have privately confidered it as a new Genus : fome have referred it to Iris, Morea, or 
_ Ferraria; others with more propriety to De la Roche’s Genus v ieufleuxia; and the ufually accurate , 
Curtis miftook and figured the widely-different Iris tricufpis for it. . 4 
Englith Gardens have feveral times poffeffed this charmi ng fpecies, but we are afraid it is “ek e 
ae entirely loft t to them. Our figure therefore, taken from the Efbbertian. colleétion f Sees tke 
: "fines, cannot fi to be highly acceptable to all lovers or en re 
C — oo refembles other Cape Irides; but the y 
_ The 
ng lufires of its brilliant flowers are 
