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TRITONIA CaPENSsIS, Lonc-TuBep 
sii RETONUAS o. &- 
Clafs and. Order. 
* 
Trtanpria Monocynia. | 
Generic Charafter,~-Vid. Ne 581 & 609.—Quo in calce ailde 
_- Hourruynra. Houtt. Nat. Hif. 0, 12. p. 448. Linn, pf. 
Syft, 11. p. 523. OCR 5 oes ae Pa 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms, . 
TRITONIA capenjis ; {patha lanceolata cufpidato-attenuata, | 
corolla venofo-ftriata: tubo longiffimo: lacinia 
_ fuprema ere€tiore ovata majore: reliquis lineari- 
__. oblongis divergenter-patentibus. G. 
HOUTTUYNIA capenjis. Houtt. Nat. Hift. 12. p. 448. tab. 
3 85.4. 3. Linn. pf. Syft. 11. p. 523. tab. 85. f. 3. 
GLADIOLUS rofeus. Facg. ic..rar. 2. 1.261. Coll. 5. 22 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 1.217. — Sie 
‘GLADIOLUS friatus. Herb. Bankf, exemplarium capenfe. 
heme 
Leaves grafs-like, far attenuate. Stem often branched + 
outer valve of the {pathe fcariofe, green at the bafe, longeft, — 
quite entire, fomewhat keeled, awnedly attenuate. Corolla 
funnelform-clubbed ; limb fubbilabiate ; tube filiform-cylindric, 
nearly twice the length of both limb and faux, three times 
longer than fpathe ; faux narrow, turbinate, flightly tumid at 
the bafe ; fegments blunt, uppermoft nearly twice the broadeft, 
Irregular, reft regular, equal, rounded at the ends, and fome- 
times emarginate; ftamens ad{cendent, anthers parallel, fhorter 
than limb, above the faux; ftigmas overtopping thefe. Scentlefs. 
Flowers in July. Si ee ee 3 
In Hourruyn’s Natural Hiftory this fpecies ferves him for 
the foundation of a new genus, to which he has given hisown _ 
_ -‘Rame; his effential charaéter would nearly fuit any genus Pe a 
