120 IRIDEZ (Baker). [Tritonta 
furnished with a purple-black blotch on theelaw. Bot. Mag. t. 622; 
Gen. Irid. 121; Baker, Handb. Irid. 190, Ixia deusta, Ait. Hort. 
Kew. i. 60. I. miniata, Red. Lil. t. 89. I. gibba, Salish. Prodr. 
38. I. crocata, var., Thunb. Diss. No. 20; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 134. 
Tritonixia deusta, Klatt, Ergdnz. 22. 
Sournm AFRIcA: without locality, Thom, 45! 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; Zonder Kinde River, Ecklon and Zeyher, 103 ! 
Swellendam Div.; Breede River, Gill! hills on both sides of Buffeljaghts 
River, 1000-2000 ft., Zeyher, 3974! and without preeise locality, Thunberg ! 
8. T. hyalina (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 163); differs 
from J. crocata only by the segments of perianth-limb being 
spathulately narrowed below the middle into a claw with an inflexed 
hyaline margin. Handb. Irid. 191. Ixia hyalina, Linn. fil. Suppl. 
91. Tritonixia hyalina, Klatt, Ergdénz. 22. Tritonia fenestrata, 
Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 228; Bot. Mag. t, 704; Gen. 
drid. 120. Ixia fenestrata, Jacg. Ic. t. 289, non Thunb. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Thom, 973 ! 
4. T. squalida (Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 581); corm, habit, and leaves 
of T. crocata, from which it differs by the colour of the flower, 
which is white more or less flushed with pink ; the veins are often 
pink on a white groundwork, and there is an obscure yellow linear 
blotch at the base of the inner or all the segments. Ait. Hort, Kew. 
edit, 2.1.92; Ker, Gen. Irid. 119; Baker, Handb. Irid. 191. Iaia 
squalida, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 61. Tritonizia squalida, Klatt, 
Erganz. 22. I. similis, Salish. Prodr. 38. TI. crocata, var., Burm., 
Prodr. 1. 
South AFRica: without locality, Thom! Pappe! 
5. T. scillaris (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 163); eorm 
globose, }-5 in. diam. ; tunies of thick parallel fibres; basal leaves 
4-6, ensiform, glabrous, moderately firm in texture, 4-6 in. long, 
¢+3 in. broad, not crisped; stem about 1 ft. long including the 
inflorescence, simple or branched; flowers in a lax spike 3-4 in. 
long with a flexuose axis ; spathe-valves oblong, moderately firm in 
texture, {-% in. long, deeply 2-3-tid; perianth pink; tube cylin- 
drical, rather longer than the spathe ; segments equal, oblong, }—} in. 
long ; stamens one-third the length of the perianth-limb ; anthers +’; in. 
long, equalling the filaments ; style not longer than the perianth- 
tube; branches faleate, 3, in. long. Handb. Irid. 191. Izia scillaris, 
Linn, Sp. Plant. edit. 2.52; Burm. Prodr.1; Houtt. Handl. xi. 
33, t. 77, fig. 2; Red. Lil. t. 127, non Thunb. I. pentandra, Linn. 
fil. Suppl. 92; Thunb. Diss. No. 22; Prodr. 10. Agretta pentandra, 
Eckl. Top. Verz. 23. Hesperantha pentandra, Herb. Drége. 
I. reflexa, Andr, Bot. Rep.t.14. I. rotata, Ker in Andr. Recens. 3. 
I, retusa, Salish. Prodr. 35. I, polystachya, Jacq. Ic. t. 275. Ker. 
in Bot. Mag. t. 629, non Linn. 
VaR. f. T. stricta (Klatt, Erginz. 23); leaves linear, rigid in texture, with 
ong stramineous midrib and margins, Agretia stricta, Eckl. Top. 
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