The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 03 & 04 [of 10]

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla hexapetala; petala tria interiora patentia, angustiora. Stigma trifidum.

Blossom six petals; the three inner petals spreading, narrower. Summit three-cleft.

See Moræa tricolor. Pl. LXXXIII. Vol. II.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Moræa scapo foliisque falcatis, glaberrimis, distichis; floribus terminalibus; petalis tribus exterioribus ovatis, concavis, pendulis, tribus interioribus sub-erectis, medio retrofractis, apicibus revolutis.

Moræa with the flower-stem and leaves scymitar-shaped, very smooth, pointing different ways; flowers terminal; the three outer petals egg-shaped, concave, hanging down, the three inner ones nearly erect, broke back about the middle, and rolled back at the ends.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The whole plant in miniature.