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] north-eat, we found upon a mall hill, under the hade of ome very tall trees, two huts of the ame contruction with thoe we had een before. They were in perfectly good preervation, and eemed to have been lately inhabited.

I dicovered a very beautiful plant, which forms a new genus very ditinct from any that has hitherto been decribed. It reembles the iris, but has only two tamina. On account of this ingularity, I gave it the name of diplarenna, and on account of its affinity with the genus moræa, I called it diplarenna moræa.

The patha has two partitions, and incloes everal flowers, which leave it one after the other when they are ready to blow. They fade much ooner than thoe of the iris and moræa, o that I hould have given up all hopes of having them copied, if new ones had not followed the others which withered almot immediately after I had plucked the plant from the ground.

Like the iris, it has no calix.

The corolla has ix petals, three of which are interior, and much maller than the exterior: of the three interior petals, the uperior is rather maller than the ret, and more inflated towards the bae.

Upon examining a great number of the flowers, I have uniformly found that they contain only two