Refugium Betaricum.} (dugust, 1868. 
TAB, 42. 
Natural Order Liniacem. 
Tribe ScILLEX. 
Genus Tritevers, Hook. 
T. aurea (Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, p. 78).  Foliis lineart-filiformibus 
erectis scapo equantibus, floribus 4—6 umbellatis, spathis mem- 
branaceis bivalvis divisionibus lanceolatis pedicellis triplo vel 
quadruplo brevioribus, perigoniis aureis fere ad basin 6-partitis seg- 
mentis equalibus oblongo-lanceolatis patulis, staminibus eequalibus 
flore multo brevioribus, stylo ovario oblongo trisulcato equali.— 
Kunth, Monoe. vol. iv. p. 469. 
A native of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. 
Bulb round, four to six lines thick, with loose membranous 
outer coats. Leaves several from a root, contemporaneous with 
the flowers, erect, three or four inches long, under a line in 
breadth, pale green, quite naked, linear-filiform, convex on the 
back, the midrib forming a slight keel, the face deeply chan- 
nelled. Scapes one to three from a root, about equalling the 
leaves, erect, slender, naked. Spathe white, membranous, four 
to six lines deep, cleft half or two-thirds of the way down into 
two ovate-lanceolate valves. Flowers three to six in an wmbel, on 
slender erect naked pedicels which are ultimately an inch and a 
half or two inches long. Perianth bright yellow, pale green at 
the base outside, half an inch deep, six-parted nearly to the base, 
the divisions oblong-lanceolate, naked, a line and a half or two 
lines broad, spreading considerably when the flower is expanded. 
Stamens six, equal, arising from nearly the base of the perianth 
and falling considerably short of it. Ovary oblong, deeply three- 
erooved, with an erect style about its own length, which equals 
the stamen ; the papillose stigma deeply trisulcate.—J. G. B. 
This pretty free-flowering bulb I obtained from one of the 
Continental nurseries. I find it succeeds well in sandy loam and 
peat, requiring only the protection of a cold frame in the winter, 
with but little water when at rest. It flowers in the early spring 
months.—W. W. S. 
