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~ LACHENALIA TRICOLOR. THREE-COLOURED> 
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Clafs and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Calyx fubtriphyllus, inferus, coloratus. Corolla 3-petala, re- 
ceptaculo inferta. Facquin jun. in ad. helv. vol. g. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
LACHENALIA ¢@ricolor. Linn. Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 314 
| Facq. Icon. pl. rarior, t. 3. 
PHORMIUM Aloides. Linu. Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 336: 
Suppl. 205. 
To Mr. Lez, of the Vineyard, Hammerfmith, the firft, and — 
as we underftand, the only Nurferyman as yet in pofleffion of 
this plant, which has but lately been introduced into this 
country from the Cape, we are indebted for. the prefent 
{pecimen. ie 
Mr. Jacquin, jun, who has figured and defcribed it in 
the 44a Helvetica, gives it the name of Lachenalia, in honour 
of WaRNERUS DE LA CHENAL, a very eminent Swifs Bo- 
tanift, and the particular friend of the late illuftrious Hater. | 
Our readers fhould be informed, that it had before been 
called by two other different names, viz. Hyacinthus orchi- 
oides, and Phormium aloides, under the latter of which it now 
ftands in the 14th edition of the Syfema Vegetabilinm, as well 
as that of Lachenalia. 
Its trivial name of fricolor, it receives from the three co- 
lours obfervable in the flowers; but it muft be noticed, that 
it is only at the middle period of its flowering, that thefe 
three colours are highly diftinguifhable; as it advances, the 
brilliant orange of the top flowers dies away; the {pots 0a 
the leaves alfo, which when the plant is young, give it the 
appearance of an orchis, as it advances into bloom become 
lefs and lefs confpicuous. a 
Like moft of the Cape plants, the Lachenalia requires t? 
_be fheltered in the winter; during that feafon it muft there- 
fore be kept in a green-houfe, or hot-bed frame, well fecured. 
It flowers in the fpring, but its blowing may be accelerat 
by the warmth of the ftove, for it bears forcing well enough- 
It is increafed by offsets from the bul = 
