north-eaſt, we found upon a ſmall hill, under the ſhade of ſome very tall trees, two huts of the ſame conſtruction with thoſe we had ſeen before. They were in perfectly good preſervation, and ſeemed to have been lately inhabited.
I diſcovered a very beautiful plant, which forms a new genus very diſtinct from any that has hitherto been deſcribed. It reſembles the iris, but has only two ſtamina. On account of this ſingularity, I gave it the name of diplarenna, and on account of its affinity with the genus moræa, I called it diplarenna moræa.
The ſpatha has two partitions, and incloſes ſeveral flowers, which leave it one after the other when they are ready to blow. They fade much ſooner than thoſe of the iris and moræa, ſo that I ſhould have given up all hopes of having them copied, if new ones had not followed the others which withered almoſt immediately after I had plucked the plant from the ground.
Like the iris, it has no calix.
The corolla has ſix petals, three of which are interior, and much ſmaller than the exterior: of the three interior petals, the ſuperior is rather ſmaller than the reſt, and more inflated towards the baſe.
Upon examining a great number of the flowers, I have uniformly found that they contain only
two
