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sician. There are several ornamental species, but being tender 
they are little grown. V. glaicopis has the large outer peri- 
anth-segments of a pure white with a blue spot in the centre 
encircled with brown. V. villosa, syn. Mord&a villosa, has 
lilac flowers whose outer perianth-lobes have a blue blotch 
separated by a black stripe from the orange centre. 
4, FERRARIA. 
Near Morcéa, but with the filaments united in a tube and the 
petaloid stigmas fringed. A South African genus of several 
species with curiously spotted evanescent flowers. F. undulata 
has the flowers spotted with purple upon a green ground, and 
there are many other remarkable species. Named after Ferrari, 
an Italian botanist. 
5. MORADA. 
Plants very much resembling the Ivises, but with all the 
divisions of the perianth equally spreading. Perianth-tube 
short, the three inner segments of its limb smaller, convolute 
after flowering. Stamens distinct. Style slender, with three 
petaloid bifid stigmas. Leaves few and narrow. Flowers of 
various colours, rising from spathaceous sheaths. Chiefly from 
South of Africa. Named in honour of R. Moore, an English 
botanist. The species are numerous and very showy. We 
may mention: M. bicolor, yellow, the outer petals with a dark 
purple spot encircled with orange, much larger than the inner ; 
M. ividiotdes, white, with yellow or brown spots; Af. édulis, 
very much like an Iris, with violet flowers, outer lobes of the 
perianth with a yellow spot at the base. Mf. Sisyrinchiwm, 
syn. M. Tenoriana and Tris Sisyrinchiwm, is a South European 
species, with purple or blue flowers. 
6. SCHIZOSTYLIS. 
This genus consists of one species, S. coccineus, a very beauti- 
ful South African plant. It has a leafy stem about 3 feet high 
and bright crimson flowers similar to those of Gladiolus. 
Perianth salver-shaped, with equal spreading segments ; stigmas 
filiform. From oyifw, to cut, and orddos, a column, in allusion 
to the filiform stigmas. 
7. TIGRIDIA. 
American bulbous dwarf plants with ensiform leaves as in 
Tris. The flowers are large and beautiful, but of short dura- 
tion, always terminal, orange or yellow richly spotted, hence the 
name Tiger-Flower. Perianth-tube short, limb spreading, the 
