TIGRID'IA CONCHIIFLO'RA. 
SH ELI. -FLOWERED TIGER-FLOWER. 
Class. 
MONADBLPHIA. 
Order. 
TRIANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
IRIDACE/li. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration . 
1 Introduced 
Mexico. 
1 foot. 
May to Sept. 
Perennial. 
! in 1823. 
No. 793. 
Tigridia, from Tigris a tiger ; and eidos like- 
ness ; the allusion will be evident. 
Under a very early number we gave an account 
of the Tigridia pavonia — one of those splendid 
children of nature which never fails, at first sight, 
to surprize even the most apathetic ; but we soon 
forget these impressions ; it is difficult to look 
back with, perfect recollection, on the feelings of 
wonder and pleasure which have, time ago, passed 
over the mind — they are gone as a shadow. This, 
the only other known species of Tigridia,is scarcely 
less beautiful, but still is wanting in the variety 
and depth of colour and brilliancy so prominent 
in its sister species. 
As may be expected, their beauty is transient — 
the splendour of a day only, for as Addison says, 
“ Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, 
Fades in the eye and palls upon the sense.” 
The bulbs may be planted in the borders at the 
end of April, and should be taken up again after 
flowering. Or, they may be forwarded in a pot, in 
the hotbed, and be turned out into the open ground 
in May. 
199 
Sweet’s FI. Gard. 128. 
