747 



TRITONIA flava. 



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Paferson's Tritoma. 



TRIANDRIA MONOQYNIA. 



Nat. ord. ENSATffi. Linn, et nob. in ann. of hot 1 . 219. 



TPrTrtArJ^^**^^*./'""^^*"'^"'':. Jki»=^- Broum prod. \. 2f^. 

 TRITONIA. Nobis mpri voL 2. fol. 135. 



T.fiava, spathx valvula exteriore cuspid&ta, luttbi laciniis tribus interioribus 



basi callosis : callo unguifonni perpeadiculari. Solander in Hart. Km. 



1. 65; (suh GhAinoLO^avo.J 

 Tritonia flara. Nobis in ann. bat. 1. 226; et in append, hot. r&/. vol. 3. 



Dryander in Hart. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 92. 

 Gladiolus flavus. Solander in Bart. Kew. 1. 66. WHld. tp. pi 1. 218. 



Vaht enum. 2. 11 0. Persom syn. 1. 47. 



Flos ^aous, necfulvusuti in securigeri; corolla irregularior, lacinue 

 inaqualiores, angustiores, miniisque obtuste in fiilvS qu^m in flavA ; ceeterOm 

 species inter se simillimcB, signisque plurimis eompicuissimis consentientes ; 

 unde discrimen validum difficile eruendum. Nee valere queant diagnoses spe- 

 cijica Horti Kewensis; occurrunt enim nota distinctionum ambee in tpiei 

 ynsdem pkmtcB utriusgne speciei ; nee val^t notm ista in vU& fori ft^w 

 generis specie. 



A plant that has probably never appeared in our collec- 

 tions from the time of the introduction of the original 

 sample by Colonel Paterson in i 780, when it was cultivated 

 by the then Lady Strathmore, till recently reimported by 

 Mr. Colvill. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, and re- 

 corded in Hortus Kewensis by Dr. Solander under Gla- 

 diolus; from which genus it was detached by us in a trea- 

 tise on Ematce in the Annals of Botany. Gladiolus has an 

 oblong capsule with winged seed; TRrroNiA a roundish 

 capsule with round wingless seed, a habit peculiar to the 

 genus and distinct throughout from that of Gladiolus. 



The spots or areas from which the three remarkable 

 calli or prominences of the corolla arise, have been termed 

 by Professor Sprengell nectarostigmata^ a term constituting 

 the type of an injudicious neologism ; being unnecessary, 

 not of convenient length, nor precise, nor expressive of 

 any thing but the.pedantry of its author. 



Students have been perplexed to distinguish flava from 

 necurigera, while taking the specific phrases, by which 



