ÏRTS tridentata.
Three-toothed Iris.
Natural Order. I r id e æ . Brown, prodr. 302.
IR IS . Supra fol. 68.
T tridentata imberbis, foliis lineari-ensiformibus acuminatis, caule
S suL n ffio ro M ü s longiore. p eriantbii lacinus m te n o n b u s
brevissimis inæqualiter trid e n ta tis : dentículo medio acuminato,
eansulis tri'^onis. stigmatibus basi utrin q u e unidentatis.
w Ä S f r p i t e / - . « . ..p<-;■ r - f : f
p. 468. Spreng. sysi. 1. p. 161. Swt.hm t brit. p f i 3 .
Irfs trip e ta la . Walt.flor. ear. p 66 V M enumÆ p. lo-i. Nuttall
gen. amer. 1. p. 23. Room, et Schult. syst. 1. p. 480.
linearly ensiform, growing m
ner from a foot to 18 inches in length, and four lines broad,
tap’ering to the point, smooth, of a dark green, longitudinally
striate with numerous lines, the margins smooth and
LaLparent: stem-leaves shorter, curved inwards a the
ooint sheathing the stem at the base. Flower-stem leaij,
smooth, a little compressed, slightly angular, 1 or ^-flowered.
Spatha of 2 bractes, in our specimens
outer bracte short, keeled, sharp-pointed; inner one nearly
three times the length, a little inflated, acute, rounded at
the back inclosing the peduncle and ovanum, and extend-
Z to the end of foe tube of the flower ; inside of the b r a e
les in our specimen, there arises another narrower brae e,
th a t encloses a younger flower. Peduncle smoothfihgh y
in g u k r L o u t half L length of the outer bracte.
smooth, below the flower, slightly 3-angular, a lude swollen
in the centre between the angles. Perianthium tabular
of 6 segments ; tube a little inflated, smooth : segments of
the limi very unequal; outer ones broadly ovate, acute,
Boi b e a r d e d , dark f o e , veined with purple'. 3 mner ones
U 2