356 €XXXVI. IRIDEX (RAKER). . [Crocosmia. 
Basal leaves about 6 in a distichous rosette, linear or ensiform, erect, 
moderately firm, 1-1} ft. long, 4—1 in. broad at the middle. Stem 
including the inflorescence 2—4 ft. long, simple or much branched, 
Flowers few, in a lax spike; rhachis flexuose; spathe-valves ovate, 
subequal, green or brownish, }—} in. long, the inner bifid at the tip. 
Perianth bright orange-yellow ; tube 3-1 in. long; segments 1-14 in, 
long, finally spreading or reflexing. Stamens and style as long as the 
perianth-segments. Capsule 4 in. diam.—Klotzsch in Peters, Reise 
Mossamb. Bot. 516; Baker, Handb. Irid. 189; Tritonia aurea, Pappe 
ex Hook. in Bot. Reg. t. 4335; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 61; Croc- 
anthus mossambicensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. t. 57. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Ugogo, Hannington! Usambara; 
Lutindi, Holst, 3234! Magila, 900 ft., Kirk! Mountains east of Lake Nyasa, 
Johnson! Portuguese East Africa: Boror, Peters. British Central Africa: Nyasa- 
land ; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte! top of Mount Zomba, Buchanan, 292! 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 724! 
Also in South Africa, 
10, TRITONIA, Ker; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 708. 
Perianth-tube short or long, cylindrical, dilated towards the top; 
segments obovate or oblong, subequal or unequal. Stamens unilateral, 
arcuate, parallel, inserted near the top of the perianth-tube ; filaments 
filiform; anthers linear or oblong, usually versatile. Ovary 3-celled ; 
ovules many, superposed ; style filiform, with 3 entire short spreading 
clavate branches. Capsule small, oblong, membranous, loculicidally 
3-valved. Seeds small, globose, or angled by pressure.—Rootstock a 
corm with fibrous or reticulated tunics. Leaves forming a distichous 
basal rosette, usually linear. Spikes simple or panicled. Spathe-valves 
short, membranous in part; outer valve oblong, entire; inner bifid at 
the tip. Flowers comparatively small, red, white, or yellow. 
Species 35, the others all South African. 
Perianth-segments subequal, oblong or lanceolate. 
Leaves ;4,—} in. broad . : : : . 1. T. mensensis. 
Leaves 4—4} in. broad . : : ; S . 2. T. laxifolia. 
Leaves about 1 in. broad. 
Spathe-valves smal] S é S ; . 3. T, cinnabarina, 
Spathe-valves large . : S : “ . 4 T. tigrina. 
Perianth-segments unequal, unguiculate : . 5. T. bongensis. 
1. T. mensensis, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 86. 
Corm small, subglobose ; tunics of reticulated fibres. Lower leaves 3, 
approximate, suprabasal, narrowly linear, 16-20 in. long, 1-5 1: 
broad, Stem 20-30 in. long, bearing 1-2 reduced leaves. Spike lax, 
2~8-flowered ; spathe-valves lanceolate-cuspidate, subequal. Perianth 
rose-red or white; tube funnel-shaped, 4 in. long; segments oblong, 
subequal, nearly 1 in. long. Style-branches overtopping the anthers. 
Capsule obovoid-oblong, } in. long. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Mensa; Geleb, 7000 ft., Sckweinfurth, 1188! 1522. 
