Plate 1047 - Brown-flowered Morea

Plate 1047

Publication Information

Native Region: Cape of Good Hope

Flowering Period: May

Description:

DRO sydEdwards Del. Pub. by T W. W Curtis st Geo st Geo st Geo st Geo Crescent Sep 1807 F. E. E. Sansom flowing with a cryftalline honied fecretion; outer lamine many times the largeft, obovate, oblong, refractedly re- curved, pendent, narrowed at their base and papillofely roughened; inner tridentwife cleft, two lateral teeth small, middle one several times the largeft, acuminate, spirally intwo- lute; filaments columnar, the length of the inner ungues, connate downwards, appearing so (till closely examined) all the way, standing on the glandularly thickened difk of the corolla; anthers oblong-linear, horizontally reflexed, ad- preffed to the stigmas; style the length of the filaments; stigmas petaloid, lorate-linear, radiately patent, horizontal; inner lip several times the largeft, bipartite, segments oblong-acute, bent backwards, upright; outer lip minute, bidentately divided, segments bent downwards. What specific distinction may be conceived to exift between the present plant tricuspis (Vid. Jupra No. 168, 696) and unguiculata (vid. Jupra No. 593) we have endeatwoured to detail in the above specific character; but we can hardly pre- vail upon ourfelves to deem them really distinct species. The drawing of this very rare vegetable was made at Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY'S, who imported it this year from the Cape of Good Hope. JacQUIN'S specimen has three short branches, G. [ 1047 ] BROWN-
FLOWERED MOREA. MOREA TENUIS.

Class and Order
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character
.-Vid. Nos. 593, 613, & 694.

Specific Character and Synonyms
. MOREA tenuis (barbata; stigmata petaloidea) solio glabro, subunico; caule culmaceo, tenui, fimplici, vel ramoso; corollæ laminis extimis integerrimis, re- curvatim deflexis, fuis unguibus triplo-longioribus; his unguibus intimis duplo-brevioribus, bafi fcrobi- culatim melliferis; laminis intimis parvulis, triden- tatim partitis, dente media fpiraliter intwoluta; filamentis unguibus longioribus æqualibus, deorfum connatis, furfum columnariter conniventibus. G. IRIS tricuspis. Var. minor. Jacq. Ic. rar. v. 2. tab. 222.

Description:
Leaf one, subradical, narrow, linear-lorate, con- twolute-concave, smooth, shorter than the stem; cufpidately- caudate; stem culmaceous, two feet or more high, simple or with one or two branchlets, upright, round, slender, stiffish, geniculate, sheathed at the joints (which are generally two) by a fingle spathelike short leaf, upwards elastic, filiform; floral fascicle about three inches long, narrow-lanceolate, round, green, smooth, the general intwolucre or upper valve nearly twice the shorteft; pedicles enclosed; flowers 2-3 in succession, scentless, not ephemeral as in most species of this genus, but lasting six or eight days; corolla, Iris-like, hexapetaloufly parted, most unequal; ungues from upright slightly turbinately diverging, concave, outer ones glandularly-bearded, twice the broadeft, shorter, with a small indentation at their base, over- flowing


Raw OCR Text (Original)

DRO sydEdwards Del. Pub. by T W Curtis st Geo st Geo st Geo Crescent Sep 1807 F. E. Sansom sculp

flowing with a cryftalline honied fecretion; outer lamine many times the largeft, obovate, oblong, refractedly re- curved, pendent, narrowed at their base and papillofely roughened; inner tridentwife cleft, two lateral teeth small, middle one several times the largeft, acuminate, spirally intwo- lute; filaments columnar, the length of the inner ungues, connate downwards, appearing so (till closely examined) all the way, standing on the glandularly thickened difk of the corolla; anthers oblong-linear, horizontally reflexed, ad- preffed to the stigmas; style the length of the filaments; stigmas petaloid, lorate-linear, radiately patent, horizontal; inner lip several times the largeft, bipartite, segments oblong-acute, bent backwards, upright; outer lip minute, bidentately divided, segments bent downwards. What specific distinction may be conceived to exift between the present plant tricuspis (Vid. Jupra No. 168, 696) and unguiculata (vid. Jupra No. 593) we have endeatwoured to detail in the above specific character; but we can hardly pre- vail upon ourfelves to deem them really distinct species. The drawing of this very rare vegetable was made at Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY'S, who imported it this year from the Cape of Good Hope. JacQUIN'S specimen has three short branches, G.

[ 1047 ] BROWN-FLOWERED MOREA. MOREA TENUIS. ***** *** Class and Order. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character.-Vid. Nos. 593, 613, & 694. specific Character and synonyms. MOREA tenuis (barbata; stigmata petaloidea) solio glabro, fubunico; caule culmaceo, tenui, fimplici, vel ramoso; corollæ laminis extimis integerrimis, re- curvatim deflexis, fuis unguibus triplo-longioribus; his unguibus intimis duplo-brevioribus, bafi fcrobi- culatim melliferis; laminis intimis parvulis, triden- tatim partitis, dente media fpiraliter intwoluta; filamentis unguibus longioribus æqualibus, deorfum connatis, furfum columnariter conniventibus. G. IRIS tricuspis. Var. minor. Jacq. Ic. rar. v. 2. tab. 222. DEsCR. Leaf one, fubradical, narrow, linear-lorate, con- twolute-concave, smooth, shorter than the stem; cufpidately- caudate; stem culmaceous, two feet or more high, simple or with one or two branchlets, upright, round, slender, ftiffifh, geniculate, sheathed at the joints (which are generally two) by a fingle fpathelike short leaf, upwards elastic, filiform; floral fascicle about three inches long, narrow-lanceolate, round, green, smooth, the general intwolucre or upper valve nearly twice the shorteft; pedicles enclosed; flowers 2-3 in fucceffron, scentless, not ephemeral as in most species of this genus, but lasting six or eight days; corolla, Iris-like, hexapetaloufly parted, most unequal; ungues from upright slightly turbinately diverging, concave, outer ones glandularly-bearded, twice the broadeft, shorter, with a small indentation at their base, over- flowing

Plate Period: 1808-1810 - Mixed artist period
Typical Artists: S Curtis Del, W.J.H.del
Expected Publisher: S Curtis at Walworth
Publisher Location: St. George's Crescent, London - the original publisher address for Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Artist Information: delineavit (Latin: 'drawn by') - indicates the artist who drew the botanical illustration

Original botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine