Tas. 7280. 
TRITONIA ROSEA. 
Native of the Cape Colony and Natal. 
Nat. Ord. In1pEx.—Tribe GuaDIoLez. 
Genus Tritonia, Ker; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 708). 
TRitonta rosea; cormo globoso tunicis fibrosis, foliis basalibus 5-6 linearibus 
glabris elongatis, caule elato gracili tereti sepissime profunde furcato, 
spicis laxis 6-8-floris subsecundis, spathe valvis inzqualibus, exterior, 
majori oblongo scarioso interiori minori membranaceo tricuspidatoi 
perianthio roseo tubo brevi infundibulari lobis oblongis tubo 2-3-plo 
longioribus 3 inferioribus ore flavo maculato, staminibas perianthio duplo 
brevioribus. 
T. rosea, Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxii. p. 760. Baker Handb. Irid. p. 194. 
Montbretia rosea, Baker in Journ, Linn, Soc. vol. xvi. p. 169. 
These Tritonias are more like Ixias in habit than 
Gladioli, and they have the same short scariose spathe- 
valves, but they differ from Ivia and Sparawis in their uni- 
lateral stamens. ‘'ritonia is a genus of twenty-six species, 
but we seldom see any of them in cultivation, except 
I’. crocata (Ixia crocata, Bot. Mag., tab. 184) and 7. 
Pottsii (Bot. Mag., tab. 6722). The present plant has a 
range extending through the eastern provinces of the Cape 
Colony from Uitenhage northward to Natal. It has been 
in cultivation for many years, and at Kew is found to 
stand the winter when planted in an open border facing 
the south. Our drawing was made from a plant that 
flowered at Kew in September, 1891. 
Descr. Corm globose, about an inch in diameter ; outer 
tunics brown, formed of matted parallel fibres. Basal 
leaves five or six, linear, erect, glabrous, firm, green, one 
or two feet long, with thick straw-coloured ribs and edges. 
Stem slender, terete, overtopping the leaves, usually deeply 
forked. Spikes lax, subsecund; outer spathe-valves 
oblong, scariose, a quarter of an inch long; inner smaller, 
Frsruary Ist, 1893. 
