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Tritonia Fenestrata. Open-Flowered 



Tritonia. 



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Oafs and Order. 



Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. — Fid. N um - 609, 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



TRITONIA fenejlrata fpatha tubum aequante; fauce turbi- 

 nata ; laciniis regulari-patentibus, fpatio infter- 

 ftin&is, bafin ufque muiuo difcedentibus ; un« 

 guium lateribus fubdimidiatim pellucentibus ; 

 laminis rotundatis, his brevioribus ; flaminibus 

 reclinato-affurgentibus. G. 



IX I A feneftrata. J acq. Ic. rar. 2. /. 289. Coll. 3. 269. GmeL 

 Syft. Nat. 110. 



This fpecies differs from fqualida, its neareft relative, befides 

 in being of a different colour and without fcent, in having a 

 turbinate and not fuburceolately campanulate faux ,- in having 

 its fegments more remotely feparated and diverging with a 

 confiderable fpace between each nearly to their bafe ; it has 

 alfo longer ungues, narrower in proportion to their lamina ; 

 the whole plant is larger and ftronger, with flowers more 

 diftantly arranged on the rachis. The ftem is thicker and 

 generally branched ; nor are the outer root leaves quite fo 

 much blunted as in that. 



Leaves about three times fhorter than the ftem, which is 

 generally refractedly reclined and from a foot to a foot and 

 half high. Corolla broad-funnelform, fegments feveral times 

 longer than the tube, which is about equal to the fpathe ; 

 ungues longer than the laminae with about one half of each 

 fide hyaline ; laminse rounded, entire, not notched as the fame 

 generally are in fqualida. Organs of fructification declined- 

 affurgent ; ftigmas overtopping the anthers, but fhorter than 



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