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Tritonia viridis. Greenish-flowered 



Tritonia. 

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Clafs and Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charatler. 

 Spatha bivalvis, conduplicata, umflora. Cor. fupera, tubulofa, 

 refupinata vel nee ; limbus fexpartitus, varie inflexus ; lacinisc 

 obovato - rotundas ad lineari-oblongas, fubaequales alterave 

 latior, a tubo ter brevioribus ad toties eo longiores, nunc 

 unguiculatiE in faucem amplain conniventes laminis campanu- 

 lato-patulis, nunc exunguiculatae in angulliorem faucem con- 

 natae laminis rotatis. Fil. tubo impohta, fauci fubifometra, 

 divergenter affurgentia, vel accumbenter afcendentia et col- 

 laterali-contigua. Auth. fubfagittato-liQeares a dorfo fupra 

 bafin affixae, recurvatim defloratae. Stylus capiliaris. Stig. 3, 

 anguitiffime ligulata, complicato-canaliculata, recurvo-divan- 

 cata. Cap/, pergaminea, triloc: , trivalv: , ovato orbiculata 

 oblongave, trigibba, valvis medio feptigeris. Sem. quoque 

 loculo plura, ex globofis varie prefla, e minoribus, diffepi- 

 menti margini internae utrinque annexa. G. 



Obs. Hab. Cap. B. Spei. Bulbo-tubercfa. Bulbo-tuber cajlaneo- 

 carnofum y deprejjb-orbiculatum, membranis reticulato-nervofts tunicatum, in 

 nonnullis fila emittens tuberipara ; folia gramineo-enfata, collaterali difiicha y 

 tquitantia ; caulis nudiufculis, modo ramofus ; rachis in refitpinatis 

 redlnata ; fioresfpicati, e majoribus, colore ludentes, fttu alterni, direc- 

 tione Jape fecundi y communiter intra faucem navis trinis dijcolonbus 

 nunc diverfimode prominentibus inftgniti. Divert Gladiolo jemlnibus 

 n°n alatis, ^Antholyza iifdem non baccafis, ab IxiA Jtuminibus 

 necjiylum trifariam Jiipantibm tuboque in faucem dilatato. G. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



TRITONIA viridis ,- (flam, afcendentia, contigua ;) foliis 

 plurimis (8 — 10), flabeiloideo-diitichis, caule 

 triquetro brevioribus ; rachide perflexuofa, 

 ereda, pluriflora ; fpalhse valva externa herba- 

 cea quam tubus breviore ; corolla clavato- 

 tubata, erefta, fauce arcuatim flexa ; limbo 

 obliquato nutante, rotato-reflexo, fubirreguiari ; 

 laciniis tubo duplo brevioribus, lineari-oblongis, 

 fubasqualibus, ima media remotius fegregata, 

 ceteris fupcrne verfus convergentibus. G. 



GLADIOLUS viridis. Hort.Kew. ^.^i. NobtsmAnn.Bot.i. 

 231. et fupra No. 992 in Spec. Enum. VahL 

 Emm. 2. 96. n. 37 ; a IVilldenovio pr<etcrvifus. 



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