Refugium Botanicum.| (April, 1868. 
TAB. 24. 
Natural Order IrnmacEes. 
Tribe SisyrRIncHIER. 
Genus Homers, Vent. 
H. riexvosa (Sweet. Hort. Brit. p. 395). Bulbo seepe duplici comoso 
imbricato ; scapo tereti flexuoso pluriarticulato ramoso basi tri- 
fohato, foliis fistuloso-vaginantibus convoluto-linearibus scapo_bre- 
vioribus, spathis multifloris multivalvibus, valvis exterioribus 
herbaceis cucullato-convolutis basi articulos involventibus cuspi- 
datis subeequantibus ; floribus remote appresso-spicatis luteis ; peri- 
anthii laciniis subspathulato-oblongis sequaliter explanatis, unguibus 
in cyathum clausis, stigmate sexfido ramis patentibus.— Morea 
flexuosa, Linn. Suppl. 100; Thunb. Diss. No. 12; Prodr. 11; 
Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 243; Bot. Mag. 695. Ixia longifolia, Jacq. Hort. 
Vind. vol. ili. t. 90. H. spicata, Sweet. F. W. Klatt, Linn. xxxiv. 
p-. 626. 
_A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Bulb three-quarters of an inch thick, often double, the coats 
brown, fibrous. Scape twelve to eighteen inches high, firm, 
slender, naked, dark green, with numerous articulations. Leaves 
three, one from each of the lowest articulations, convolute, sub- 
fistulose, shorter than the scape, dark green, naked; upper arti- 
culations each with a short clasping spathe-like bract, mem- 
branous at the borders. Flowers in a spike sometimes a foot 
long, distant, the spathes about equalling the pedicels, the flowers 
bright yellow, an inch and a half broad when fully expanded, the 
divisions oblong-spathulate, with a green streak down the middle 
reaching three-quarters of the way down, nearly equal, the 
stamens united into a tube below, the style densely six-cleft with 
spreading rays. Capsule half an inch long, hardly at all sulcate. 
We figure this principally for the sake of showing clearly the 
character of the style, which is very anomalous. Dr. F. W. Klatt, 
of Hamburg, who has recently contributed to the ‘ Linnea’ an 
elaborate monograph of the Iridacee, unites together three of 
Sweet's Homerie—spicata, flexuosa and virgata—as one species. 
—J, G. Jey. 
This is an old and well-known plant, brought forward again to 
point out some peculiarities of structure. It flowers freely treated 
as an Imia.—W. W. S. 
