. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. •i?..-w,-. // , »f yy/z^/r* ^^^ 221 WITSENIA MAURA. (dark-FLOWERED WITSENIA.)CLASS. ORDER. TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. IRIDACE^. Generic Character.—CalyT none. Corolla erect, regular, ncirly equal, persistent, tubulose, witha five (rarely ) parted limb. Stamens included, erect, affixed at the base to the cxteiior inferior, or partially superior, many-seeded. Style filiform, cxserted. Stigma obsolctelythree-lobed. Capsule woody, ovatcly-trigonal, three-celled, thrce-valved ; valves bearing the seedsin the
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. •i?..-w,-. // , »f yy/z^/r* ^^^ 221 WITSENIA MAURA. (dark-FLOWERED WITSENIA.)CLASS. ORDER. TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. IRIDACE^. Generic Character.—CalyT none. Corolla erect, regular, ncirly equal, persistent, tubulose, witha five (rarely ) parted limb. Stamens included, erect, affixed at the base to the cxteiior inferior, or partially superior, many-seeded. Style filiform, cxserted. Stigma obsolctelythree-lobed. Capsule woody, ovatcly-trigonal, three-celled, thrce-valved ; valves bearing the seedsin the middle. Seeds in two rows, angular. Specific Character Plant an evergreen shnib, growing two foet high and upwards. Stems erect, branching slightly. Leaves embracing the stem at the base, long, thick, channelled, unequal, arranged in pairs on a common peduncle, distichously spicate, or sessile on the endof the stem ; each pair having foliaceous, distichous, imbricated scales. Corolla club-shaped ; tube green, somewhat rough, becoming
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