WITSE'NIA CORYMBO'SA 
CORYMBOSE WITSENIA. 
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Natural division 
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NATURAL ORDER, IRIDACEiE 
EPIGTNOS^ 
OF 
LINDLET. 
Artificial divisions 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
TRIANDRIA, 
MO><’OGYNI A, 
OF LINNEGS. 
No, 202 
GENUS. WiTSENiA. Thunberg. Corolla regularis, tubulosa,limbo six- 
partito, vel tota hexapetalo-partita. Staaiina erecta, laciniarum basi adnata. 
Stigmata tria. Capsula 3-locularis, polysperma. Seaiina augulato-pressa. 
Slefrutices. Radix rhizoma ligneum, fibratum, abiens in caulem sursum foliis 
obtectum, ancipitem, adpresse ramosum ; inferius articiilatim cicatrizatum, 
articulis eundo^brevioribus dennoque ad folia confertissimis; litEC perennia, sur¬ 
sum tendentia, flabellatim disticlia, basin versus imbricato-equitantiUj lineari- 
ensiformia, conduplicanter fissilia, superiora longiora. 
SPECIES. WiTSENiA coRVAiBosA^ {Gawler) floiibus corymbosis, Cor¬ 
olla bypocrateriformii, glabra. 
Character of the Genus, Witsenia. Corolla regular, tubu¬ 
lar, with a six-partite limb, or cut nearly to the base into six petals. 
Stamens erect, inserted into the base of the segments. Stigmas three, 
(4-6 ) Capsule three-celled, many-seeded. Seeds angular from 
mutual impression. 
Description of the Species, Witsenia corymbosa. Suffru- 
ticose (the specimen described forming a round bush, 2^ feet high.) 
Stem at first flat and two-edged, but becoming round, and having a 
lough brown cracked surface, much branched, the branches erect, soon 
becoming naked below, and towards the apex giving origin to many 
leaves which are distichous, ecjuitant, flat, glaucous, and in their upper 
half linear-lanceolate. Peduncle terminal, flat, and two-edged, less 
glaucous than the leaves, corymbose, the branches trigonous, spring¬ 
ing fiom the axils of sharply keeled and gradually diminishing bracts. 
At the base of each branch there is generally a fascicle of pedicellate 
floweis, each pedicel having at its base a small brown scale, and at its 
apex three, the two outer of which are equitant and herbaceous, the 
inner larger, membranous, bifid at the apex, involute, inclosing the 
geimen and lower part of the tube of the corolla. Perianth single, 
of fine azure blue, salver-shaped, the tube cylindi’ical, twice as long as 
the inner scale j limb six-partite, imbricated in bud, as long as the 
