tab. 6549. In their flowers and leaves these two resemble 
australis, but the stamens are like those of Gesneriane. 
The drawing was made from a plant sent by Mr. F. W. 
Burbidge, which flowered in the garden of Trinity College, 
Dublin, last February. 
Descr. T. pirtora. Bulb small, ovoid, the thin tunics 
woolly inside. Stems under a foot long, slender, slightly 
pilose, bearing usually two or three, rarely four or five 
flowers. Leaves two or three, linear, reaching in cultivation 
a length of six or nine inches. Perianth in cultivation 
about an inch long, white inside, with a yellow throat, 
tinted outside with green and purple; segments lanceolate, 
acute, the two rows nearly alike in shape. Stamens about — 
a third as long as the perianth; filaments with a tuft of 
hairs at the base; anthers small, linear-oblong. Ovary 
oblong-cylindrical ; stigmas small, sessile. 
T. 11ensts. Bulb small, ovoid, the tunics furnished with 
a few adpressed hairs on the inside towards the tip. Stem 
slender, one-flowered, under a foot long, slightly downy 
upwards. Leaves three or four to a stem, linear, acuminate, 
green, glabrous, six to twelve inches long, under half an 
inch broad. Perianth an inch long, lemon-yellow ; outer 
segments oblong, subacute; inner obovate-cuneate obtuse. 
Stamens about half as long as the perianth-segments ; 
filaments linear, glabrous, orange-yellow, twice as long as 
the anthers. Ovary oblong-trigonous, badly developed in 
the specimen drawn ; stigmas small.—J. G. Baker. 
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a, Fig. 1, Whole flower, in section, xatural size ; 2,a single stamen, magnified. 
b, Fig. 1, whole flower, in section, natural size. 
