949 
MORAGA Herberti. 
Mr. George Herbert's Morea. 
SAT 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. [pipea. 
MORZA.—Supra, vol. 4. fol. 312. 
M. Herberti; foliis linearibus acuminatis plicatis scapo brevioribus, scapo 
_ramoso terete multifloro: ramis fasciculatis, spathis inflatis flore multd 
brevioribus, sepalis interioribus medio abrupté incurvo-reyolutis quam 
exteriora minoribus imberbibus. Lg Testi 
Tigridia Herbertiana, W. Herbert in bot. mag. t. 2599. 
Oxs, M, gladioloidi Kunthiz quam maximé affinis. 
__ Herba bulbosa: bulbo vestigiis foliorum tecto. Folia linearia, acuminata, 
biplicata, angulis plicarum alatis, leté virides, pedales vel circa. Scapus 
erectus, 2-3 pedalis, flexuosus, teres, glaucus, ramosus, multiflorus, Flores 
magni, luteo-aurantiact, inodori, brevi spatio flaccidi. Perianthium bast 
campanulatum: laciniis exterioribus oblongo-spatulatis, patentibus, planis, 
tortis, apice caudatis, per axin purpuratis, basi semidiaphanis, pallidis, pur- 
pureo lineatis; interioribus nanis, erecto-patentibus limbo revoluto, apice 
obtuso, medio concavo pallido, utrinque urpres crebre penicillato, ; ungue 
plano, semidiaphano, purpureo striato. Filamenta in stipite brevi carnoso 
connata, sepalis majoribus et stigmatibus opposita ; antheree 3, erecte, has- 
tate, stigmatibus breviores, loculis purpureis. Oyarium inferum. Stigmata 
tria, bifida, medio bidentato elevato. Ps 
This subject was originally supplied for the use of the 
Botanical Register, from the garden of the late Honourable 
and Reverend George Herbert, after which lamented gen- 
tleman it was then named by. the writer of the present. 
article. Some unavoidable delay having occurred in the 
preparation of our figure for the press, the plant has in the 
mean while been published in the Botanical Magazine. 
The difficulty of avoiding repetitions of this kind in con- 
temporary periodical publications is too obvious to require 
explanation. With ourselves, however, they are always 
a subject of regret, because they are seldom advantageous 
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