Watsonia meriana
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Watsonia meriana, Mill. This seems to be the dominant species of the genus and hence the most variable and the one most interesting to the plant-breeder. In its widest sense it includes W. iridifolia, but for horticultural purposes it will be convenient to consider the latter a distinct species. W. Meriana is best restricted to the commonest type at the Cape, which is a rose-fld. species 3-4 ft. high, the st. usually branched, lvs. 1/2 – 3/4 in. wide, and the spikes 12-20-fld. This is the plant figured in B.M. 418 as Antholyza Meriana. Gn. 17:390 is more typical in color. The white-fld. form, which is rarer in nature, is treated under W. iridifolia. Baker says that there are scarlet-fld. forms of this species, but he gives them no name, and it is probable that all such should be referred to W. angusta.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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