C 1531 ] 



Tritonia capensis (/3.) Lesser trumpet- 



Tritonia. 



Gencric Chamber. — Vide fnpra N u - 1275, 1502. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



TRITO\ T IA capenfis ; (irregularis • Jiamina afcendentia ;) foliis 

 radicalibus pluribus (7 — 8), gramineo-enfatis, nervofis, 

 medio coflatis, intimo anguftiore ferme toto vaginante, 

 altiori ; caule fimplici vcl fubramofo, foliolis ftipulaceis 

 1 — 2 j fpica pluriflora, remotiufcula; fpathze valvis tubo 

 2 — 3plo brevioribusj extima lanceolata ariftato-cufpidata, 

 intima fctaceo-bifida ; corolla erecla, gracilius tubaeformi ; 

 tubo laciniis duplo longiore, fubclavato-triquetro, in faucem 

 brevem leviffimc latefcente ; limbo inaequali, obfolete fub- 

 bilabiato, lacinia fbmma elliptico-ovata, duplo fere latiore, 

 porrecla vel minus patentc, reliquis lineari-oblongis apice 

 rotundatis ftellato explanatis, irnis tribus fubanguftioribus; 

 ftaminibus pene duplo brevioribus, fummre lacinias accum- 

 bentibus ; filamentis fauci inclufis, anthera emicante fub- 

 longioribus; ftigmatibus (lamina tranfeuntibus,revolutis. G. 



1 R ITON I A capenfis. Nobis Jupra No. 6 1 8 ; it : in Ann. tf Bat. 

 I. 228; fupraque No. 1275 verfo fol. in Spec. Enum. 



V*ITONIA rofea. Hart. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 91. 



GLADIOLUS rofeus. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 2. tab. 261. Coll. 5. 22. 

 Willd. Sp PI. x. 217. Vahl. Emm. 2. no. w. 69. 



GLADIOLUS longifloms. Linn. Suppl. 69 ? Syjh Veg. Murr. 

 € "- *4- 87 f ; at non aliornm. 



HOUTTUYNIA capenfis. Houtt Nat.Hifl. 12. 448. tab. 85. 

 fg.%. Linn. Pfi'.Syjl.iusn. tab. 8.5./ 3. 



I*-; major; corolla rubido-pallcl'cente, venis picta. G. i\o. 610. 



I 3 -) minor; corolla ochroleuca, avenia, laciniis praeter fummaro 

 ladio brevi atro fanguineo bafi notatis. G. 



Ir > No. 618 will be found an account of the fpecies; and m 

 * °- 1 S°3 3 ftatement of its difference from the nearly allied 



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