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* TRITONIA fucata 



Painted Tritonia. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat, ord. iRiDACEiE. 



TRITONIA. Bot. Reg. vol 2.foL 135. 



fucata ; spicis secundis decurvis floribus erectis, perianthlo clavato sursilm 

 ventricoso arcuato bilablato, labio superiore oblongo bidentato subfornicato 

 inferiore 5-partito recurvo lacinlls linearibus obtusis aequalibus. 



I am acquainted with this very remarkable plant through 

 drawing communicated in August 1837, with the following 

 )te by the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert. 



" I received the bulbs from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 about twenty-five years ago. They multiplied rapidly, and' 

 some having been left out in the open ground, they proved 

 to be perfectly hardy, thriving equally in peat, and in the 

 common soil of the garden, and there were so many large 

 bunches of it at last in my garden, that hundreds of the 

 bulbs have been dug up and purposely destroyed. Till now 



th those amongst 

 ise. At the end of 

 dung laid on the 



It has never flowered with me, 

 whom I had distributed part of the 



nor 



autumn 



occurred 



me 



h 



patches which were growing in the garden soil, and th 



been the production of a flower-stem this 



summer 



I 



doubt not that manure is the requisite to make it flower freely. 

 It appears to agree in structure with Tritonia refracta of the 

 Bot. Register, though very difl'erent in many respects. The 



* So named by Mr. Ker from Triton a vane or weathercock, in allusion to 

 the variableness of the species of this genus, as regards the direction of their 

 anthers. 





