TIGRIDIA 



TILIA 



3345 



26:128 (as T. alba}. Var. alba immaculata, Hort., is a 

 spotless white variety, a sport from var. alba. Gn. 49, p. 

 361. Var. flava, Hort.. has pale yellow fls. with red- 

 spotted center. Gn. 50:22. Var.' canariensis, Hort., 

 is also a pale yellow-fld. form, but named as if an 

 inhabitant of the Canaries. Var. lutea immaculata, 

 Hort., has pure yellow spot- 

 less fls. Var. rosea, Hort., 

 has rose-colored fls. with 

 yellow variegated center. 

 Var. lilacea, Hort., has lilac 

 fls. with spotted center. 

 Gn. 45:26. Var. speciosa, 

 Hort., is a partially dwarf 

 form with deeper red color, 

 the interior of the cup 

 being similar in color to 

 the limb. Described in 

 1843. G. 36:359. Var. 

 grandiflora, Hort., has fls. 

 much like those of T. 

 Pavonia itself except that 

 they are larger and brighter 

 colored. Gn.45, p. 263. G. 

 1:20; 6:263 (as T. grandi- 

 flora). Identical with this, 

 or subtypes of it, are the 

 forms known as Wheeleri, 

 coccinea, splendens. Most 

 of the marked departures 

 in colors of T. Pavonia are 

 recent. In catalogues the 

 above names often appear 

 as if they were species 

 names. 



3809. Tigridia Pringlei. ( X \i) Pringlei, Wats. Fig. 3809. 

 Distinguished by Sereno 



Watson, the author of the species, as follows: "Very 

 closely related to T. Pavonia. and if color alone were to 

 decide, it might be considered a variety of it, though 

 differing markedly even in that respect from the old 

 species. The base of the sepals is blotched (rather than 

 spotted) with crimson, with a border of orange, the 

 reflexed blade being of a bright scarlet-red. The petals 

 have the base blotched and coarsely spotted with 

 crimson, with a well-defined, deeper-colored, brownish 

 margin, the blade orange, tinged with scarlet, but not at 

 all spotted as in T. Pavonia. The more essential differ- 

 ence is in the form of the petals, which have a broadly 

 cordate or reniform base, with a much narrower small 

 triangular-ovate acute blade. The sepals are also 

 smaller and more oblong in outline." N. Mex. G.F. 

 1:389 (adapted in Fig. 3809). B.M. 7089. 



AA. Fls. relatively small; the 2 rows of segms. differing 

 less in size; stigmas capitate, or at least not strongly 

 decurrent. (Subgenus Beatonia.) 



buccifera, Wats. Fig. 3810. About 1 ft. high, slender, 

 branching, glaucous: Ivs. very narrow, strongly plicate: 

 fl. 2 in. across, the cup pale greenish yellow, dotted with 

 purple, the obovate obtuse blade of the outer segms. 

 light purple; inner segms. "folded together in such a 

 manner as to form a sunken longitudinal tube down the 

 center, the dilated sides at the outer end of the tube 

 approaching each other in the form of 2 cheek-like 

 prominences, these are colored white, purple, and 

 yellow, while the small rounded terminal blade is a 

 deep purple." Mountains of Jolisco, Mex. G.F. 2:413 

 (adapted in Fig. 3810). Offered in 1889 by Hereford. 



T. aurea, Hort., is Cypella plumbea. T. c&lesti-s, Hort., is Cypella 

 plumbea. T. HoiUtei, Roezl, is HydroUenia Van Houttei. T. 

 Mtleagris, Hort., is abo a Hydrotaenia (H. Meleagris, Lindl.), but is 

 not in the American trade. B.R. 28:39. T. riolacea, Schiede. <fe 

 Schlecht. One of the Beatonia section: slender, narrow-lvd. : fls. 2 in. 

 across, violet, spotted at the base; inner segms. small, cusp-pointed. 

 Mex. B.M. 7356. H.U. 3, p. 301. Other kinds of Tigrida are likely 

 to appear in cult. L H B 



TILIA (the classical Latin name). Tiliacex. LINDEN. 

 LIME. BASSWOOD. WHITEWOOD. Ornamental trees, 

 grown for their handsome foliage, good habit, and also 

 for their fragrant flowers. 



Deciduous: winter buds large, obtuse, with several 

 imbricate scales, terminal bud wanting: Ivs. alternate, 

 petioled, usually cordate, serrate, with caducous 

 stipules: fls. small, in long-peduncled drooping cymes; 

 the peduncle for about half its length adnate to a mem- 

 branous ligulate bract; sepals 5; petals 5, often with 

 5 opposite petaloid staminodes; stamens many, with 

 the filaments forked at the apex; ovary superior, 5- 

 celled; style slender, with 5-lobed stigma: fr. globose 

 or ovoid, nut-like, usually with 1-3 seeds. About 25 

 species throughout the temperate regions of the north- 

 ern hemisphere, in N. Amer. south to the highlands of 

 Mex., except W. N. Amer., and in Asia south to Cent. 

 China. The names of the lindens, and particularly of 

 those in cult., have been much confused, owing to the 

 great variability of some species, the rather slight dif- 

 ferences between many of the species and to the pres- 

 ence of many hybrids originated spontaneously and 

 in cult. The light-colored soft and light wood is easily 

 worked and much used for the interior finish of houses, 

 for wood-carving, wooden baskets and other small 

 wooden ware. The tough inner bark is used as a tying 

 material and, particularly in Russia, in the manufac- 



3810. Tigridia buccifera. (Xnearly 



ture of mats, cords, shoes, and other articles. The fls. 

 yield large quantities of nectar and afford an excellent 

 bee pasture, except T. tomentosa and T. petiolaris, 

 which are poisonous to bees. 



The lindens are very desirable trees of comparatively 

 rapid growth and regular pyramidal habit while young, 

 with slender-stalked medium-sized or rather large 

 leaves and with small yellowish fragrant flowers in 



