Tab. 6295. 
TIGRIDIA lutea. 
Native of Peru ancl Chili. 
Nat. Ord. Iridace^e. — Tribe Tigridie^e. 
Genus Tigr'idia, Juss. ( Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. inedit.). 
Tigridia (Beatonia) lutea; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis brunneis, foliis 3-d superpo- 
sitis sessilibus linearibus acutis glabris profunde plicatis, caule gracili tereti 
monoceplialo, spathse 2-4-florse valvis lanceolatis exterioribus viridibus, in- 
terioribus pallidis membranaceis, pedicellis floriferis spatha aequilongis, 
ovario obiongo, perianthii lutei fugacis segmentis unguibus latis diu imbri- 
catis cupulam efformantibus fusco punctatis, laminis rotundis supra un- 
guem flore expanso patnlis, interioribus minoribus ad unguis apicem crystal- 
lino-foveolatis, tilamentis in tubum cyliudricum prorsus connatis, antheris 
ligulatis erecto-patentibus, styli ramis profunde bifurcatis ramulis falcatis 
apice stigmatosis. 
T. lutea, Link , Klotzsch, and Otto, Icon. Plant. Ray. PLort Reg. Bot. Berol. p. 85, 
tab. 34 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. inedit. 
Sisyrinchium grandiflorum, Gav. Diss. tab. 192, fig. 2 ? 
Beatonia lutea, Klatt in Linncea, vol. xxxi. p. 567 ; vol. xxxiv. p. 733. 
This Tigridia is much inferior in decorative effect to the 
well-known P . Pavonia , and, as in all the other species of 
the genus, the flowers are very fugitive. Probably it is the 
plant figured by Cavanilles, in 1790, under the name of 
Sisyrinchium grandiflorum , but if so the drawing is a very 
poor one. I have seen a dried specimen in the British 
Museum, collected about the time by Pavon, in Peru. It 
was named and well figured by Link, Klotzsch, and Otto, 
from a specimen sent to the Berlin Botanic Garden, from the 
island of Chiloe, by Professor Philippi, in 1840. It is the 
only species of Tigridia that comes from that part of the 
world, all the other five that are known being Mexican. 
The present drawing was made from a plant that flowered 
with Mr. H. J. Elwes, at Cirencester, in the autumn of 
1876. 
^tay 1st, 1877, 
