Tas. 6722, 
TRITONIA Porrst. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. [r1pEm.—Tribe Ixrez. 
Genus Tritonia, Ker; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 708.) 
Tarronra (Montbretia) Pottsii ; rhizomate longe repente bulbos globosos segregatos 
gerente, foliis 5—6 distichis linearibus viridibus, inferioribus basalibus pedalibus 
vel sesquipedalibus, reliqnis caulinis reductis segregatis, caule 3—4-pedali, 
paniculz laxe ramis spicatis ascendentibus multifloris, spathe valvis parvis 
membranaceis, perianthii crocei infundibularis segmentis oblongis tubo duplo 
brevioribus, staminibus inclusis, styli ramis brevibus cuneatis, fructu ovoideo 
obtuse angulato. 
T. Pottsii, Benth. in Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 708. 
Montbretia Pottsii, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, vol. viii. p. 424; Belg. Hort. 
1878, p. 90; Garden, 1880, p. 84, with coloured plate; Gard. Chron. 1880, 
vol. ii. p. 525. 
Guapiotvus Pottsii, Macnab in Hort. Edinen. 
This is one of the most interesting and valuable new 
bulbous plants that have been introduced of late years. 
It was brought into the Edinburgh Botanic Garden several 
years ago by Mr. G. H. Potts, of Lasswade, after whom it 
was named by the late Mr. Macnab, who distributed it 
freely. We do not know from what district in South Africa 
_ it came, and have never received at Kew any wild specimens. 
It flowers in August, and as it dies down to the ground 
in winter, it can easily be given all the protection it needs, 
and is practically hardy in our English climate. As one 
plant will produce fifty or a hundred flowers, and it will go 
on flowering for a month, it is a fine acquisition to our 
stock of bright-flowered hardy bulbs. Recently it has 
been hybridized by Monsieur Victor Lemoine, of: Nancy, 
with its near ally Tritonia (Crocosma) aurea, figured Bot. 
Mag. tab. 4335, and a third fine plant is the result, which 
has been figured in the Belgique Horticole for 1881, tab. 14, 
under the name of Monibretia crocosmeflora. Our present 
plate was drawn from a plant that flowered at Kew in the 
summer of 1881. 
NOVEMEER lst, 1883. 
