spherical, pale yellow. Pistil superior. Germen spherical, about the 
size of a small pea, minutely tuberculated. Style short, filiform, sup- 
porting a remarkably large, umbraculiform, convex, green stigma, with 
5 lines, and 6 elongated angles, which curve down over the germen ; its 
under side is downy. | 
The specific character given by the original discoverer of 
_§. rubra, “ foliis erectis tubulatis, valva plana erecta,” is so 
applicable to our present plant, that I think there can be no 
question of its identity with our species. _ But I cannot agree — 
with Mr Pursu in thinking that S. psittacona of MicHaux 
is the same; for in that individual the tube of the leaf is de- 
scribed as gradually passing into a “ recurved, rounded, forni- 
cated, mucronated appendage, somewhat resembling the head 
of a parrot.” Nor are the leaves of S. rubra short, as compared 
with those of its congeners, though they are so with regard to 
its scape. | | . | 
It is a native of swamps in Georgia and Carolina, and was 
introduced to this country by Mr J. Fraser, in 1786, as we 
learn from the Hortus Kewensis. The beautiful specimen 
here delineated, was communicated by Mr SHEPHERD of Li- 
verpool, in April 1822. | 
In the flower this species approximates to S. purpurea, 
but has leaves of a very different form, and the singular figure 
of whose appendage will ever keep it distinct from all other — 
individuals of this genus. 
Fig. 1. Scape and flower of S. rubra. Fig. 2. Leaf; and Fig. 3. Upper side 
of a flower, natural size. Fig. 4. Portion of a flower, with the great 
peltate stigma, turned up to display the stamens, and the germen with 
the style. Fig. 5. Stamen. Fig. 6. Pollen. Fig. 7. Germen and 
Style-—AU more or less magnified. 
