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202 two tamina, the filaments of which terminate in a point upporting antheræ of a white colour, and marked with two fiures. In the place of a third tamen, I have only found a mall filament, without any antheræ, ituated between the uperior interior petal.

The ovarium is inferior. It has three angles, and is upported by a long peduncle.

The tyle is a little longer than the tamina, cylindrical, and terminated by a tigma haped like a hepherd's crook.

The capule has three partitions, containing everal pherical eeds, which are fixed to a receptacle that extends from the middle of the partitions to the top.

This genus, which naturally ranks after the iris and the moræa, has all the habitudes of thoe plants. Its leaves are of the ame word-like form, with their edges compreed near the bae.

Fig. 1. The plant.

Fig. 2. The flower-buds diplayed by cutting away the patha. A full-blown flower with the three exterior petals torn off.

Fig. 3. An exterior petal een from its inner urface. Fig.