POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
II 
The largest species of this genus. Leaves 1 8 — 24 inches high, 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. 
Stigma nearly two inches in diameter, with each angle two cleft. 
Grows in swamps, abundant in the middle districts of Carolina and 
Georgia, rarely found along the sea coast. 
Flowers in April, 
4. Catesb^t. E. 
S. foliis stride e- 
redis ; tubo infundi- 
buliformi ; ala ven- 
trali lineari; fauce rec- 
to; appendice erecta, 
subreniformi, reticu- 
lata, venis coloratis. 
Catesby, tab. 69. f. b. 
Leaves firmly e- 
rect ; tube funnel sha- 
ped, longitudinal wing 
linear;throat straight; 
appendix erect, some- 
what reniform, reticu- 
late with colored veins 
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Leaves 12 — 18 inches high, regularly tapering to the base; the upper 
part of the leaves and the appendix distinguished by their coloured 
veins, the inner surface of the appendix covered by long and very con- 
spicuous hair 
This plant which has been probably united with the S. Flava, and 
which can be connected with no other species, appears to me sufficiently 
distinct ; it differs by its rigidly erect leaves, by its throat which is straight 
and not expanding, and 'by its appendix of which the sides are not reflect- 
ed. It differs also from the S. Flava by its darkly colored purple veins 
and hairy appendix. My specimens agree exactly with the figure in 
Catesby, to which I have referred and were collected by Dr. Macbride 
along the margins of the rivulets amidst the high sand hills of Chesterfield 
district in S. Carolina. 
The flowers I have not seen. 
5. Variolaris. Mich. 
S. foliis paulo ven- 
tricosis, tubp superne 
dorso maculato ; ap- 
pendice fornicata, in- 
curvata ; ala ventrali 
Leaves slightly 
ventricose, with the 
tube near the summit 
spotted on the back ; 
appendix arched, in- 
