Tritonia.} IRIDEE (Baker.) 129 
32. Montbretia crocosmeflora (Hort. ; Floral Mag. n.s. t. 472); 
whole plant 3 ft, high; produced leaves 6-8 in a basal fan, green, 
largest a foot long, under an inch broad; spikes 1~3, lax, distichous, 
the end one 6-9 in. long; spathe-valves lanceolate, herbaceous, 
greenish-brown, }-4 in. long; perianth bright reddish-yellow, 1} in. 
long ; segments oblong, subequal, as long as the funnel-shaped tube ; 
stigmas reaching to tip of segments; stamens shorter. 
A garden hybrid between Tritonia Pottsii and Crocosmia aurea. Described 
from plants flowered at Kew, Aug., 1889. 
XXVII. CROCOSMIA, Planch. 
Perianth with a cylindrical tube slightly dilated upwards, and 6 
subequal, spreading, oblong segments. Stamens inserted at the throat 
of the perianth-tube, unilateral, close, arcuate; filaments long, 
filiform ; anthers linear-sagittate, versatile. Ovary 3-celled; ovules 
few in a cell, superposed ; style filiform; branches entire, slightly 
dilated at the tip. Fruit an inflated, 3-lobed, globose capsule, 
dehiscing loculicidally, the valves persistent and chartaceous. 
few, large, globose. 
Disrris. The single species extends to the mountains of Tropical Africa. 
1. C. aurea (Planch. in Flore des Serres t. 702); corm globose ; 
tunics thin, membranous; stems terete, 2-4 ft. long, branched, 
furnished with a few small leaves ; basal leaves about 6 in a dis- 
tichous rosette, linear or ensiform, thin in texture, 1-1} ft. long, 
4-} in. broad; spikes few-flowered, lax, equilateral, with a very 
tlexuose axis ; spathe-valves greenish-brown, ovate or oblong, acute, 
3-4 in. long; perianth bright dark reddish-yellow ; tube }~-1 in. 
long; limb 1-14 in. long, with oblanceolate-oblong segments ; 
stamens and style reaching to i? tip of ‘the — anthers pale 
yellow, in. long; capsule 4 in. diam.; valves rugose, persistent ; 
seeds ad as a pea, ‘Klatt in Linnea xxxii. 764; Baker, Handb. 
Trid. 189. Tritonia aurea, Pappe MSS.; Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 
4335; Ergdanz. 24; Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 61; Baker in Journ, Linn. 
Soc. xvi. 163. Crocanthus mossambicensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise 
Mossamb. Bot. t. 57. 
Vaz. maculata (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1888, iv. 565, fig. 80) has a dark spot at 
the base of the perianth-segments. Var. imperialis, Hort., has a perianth-limb 
3 in. diam., and leaves an inch broad. - 
Katanarr Region: Transvaal; beside streams in wooded ravines around 
Barberton, 3000-3500 ft., Galpin, 805! without precise locality, McLea in Herb. 
Bolus, 5792! : : 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Umbloti, Wood, 7971! without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 404! Plant, 76! Cooper, 3202! Buchanan! Griqualand East; Kokstad, 
4000 ft., Tyson, 1701! Pondoland; between Umtata River and St. John’s River, 
1000 200u ft., Drége, 4551b!_Tembuland; Buzeia, Baur, 31! 
Also occurs in south-east Tropica) Africa. 
