Tab. 7089. 
TIGRIDIA PRINGLEI. 
Native of Northern Mezico. 
Nat. Ord. Intpex.—Tribe Morzez. 
Genus Ticripia, Juss. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 690.) 
Tigripta Pringlei ; cormo parvo globoso, caule monocephalo, foliis 3-4 alternis 
ensiformibus plicatis, spathe valvis exterioribus subequilongis viridibus, 
perianthii segmentis exterioribus lamina magna patula splendide san- 
guinea preditis, segmentis interioribus lamina perparva ovata lutea rubro- 
maculata, styli ramis antheris equilongis, capsulis clavatis. 
T. Pringlei, S. Wats. in Garden and Forest, vol. i. (1888), p. 388, fig. 61; 
Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. ii. p. 322. 
This new Tigridia is very nearly allied to the old well- 
known Tigridia Pavonia (Ferraria Pavonia, Bot. Mag. 
t. 532). Its principal botanical difference lies in the size 
and shape of the blade of the inner segments of the 
perianth. From a garden point of view it will be wel- 
comed on account of the brilliant scarlet colour of the 
large spreading blade of the outer segments of its perianth. 
he first specimen received at Kew came in August, 1883, 
from Mr. A. Buchan Hepburn, who procured the plant 
from a height of six thousand feet on the Sierra Madre, 
in Northern Mexico. It was rediscovered in 1887 by Mr. 
C. G. Pringle in the province of Chihuahua, and intro- 
duced by him to the Botanical Garden of Cambridge in 
Massachusetts. As 7’. Pavonia is confined to Central and 
Southern Mexico, it is very likely that 7. Pringlet will 
‘prove moré hardy in our English gardens. Our drawing 
was made from a plant that was presented to the Royal 
Gardens in 1888 by Messrs. Pringle and Horsford of 
Vermont, U.S.A., and flowered at Kew last July. 
- Descr. Corm small, globose; root-fibres cylindrical. 
_ Stem one or two feet high, bearing a single terminal cluster 
of flowers and three or four alternate ensiform plicate 
leaves, which are nearly an inch broad at the middle, and 
taper gradually to the base and apex. Spathes three 
inches long, containing five or six flowers, which open in 
DecrMBeERr Ist, 1889, 
