Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 704 - Tritonia fenestrata (Open-flowered Tritonia) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 704, Tritonia fenestrata (Open-flowered Tritonia).

• Plate: 704
• Latin name: Tritonia fenestrata
• Common name: Open-flowered Tritonia
• Linnaean class / order: Triandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Dec 1, 1803
• Artist: Syd. Edwards
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 704 ]

TRITONIA FENESTRATA. OPEN-FLOWERED TRITONIA.

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Class and Order.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
—Vid. Num. 609.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
TRITONIA fenestrata spatha tubum aequante; fauce turbinata; lacinitis regulari-patentibus, spatio interfincitis, basin usque mutuo difcedentibus; unguium lateribus subdimidiatim pellucentibus; laminis rotundatis, his brevioribus; ftaminibus reclinato-affurgentibus. G. IXIA fenestrata. Jacq. Ic. rar. 2. t. 289. Coll. 3. 269. Gmel. Syft. Nat. 110. This species differs from Isqualida, its nearest relative, besides in being of a different colour and without scent, in having a turbinate and not subturceolately campanulate faux; in having its segments more remotely separated and diverging with a considerable space between each nearly to their bafe; it has also longer ungues, narrower in proportion to their lamina; the whole plant is larger and stronger, with flowers more distantly arranged on the rachis. The stem is thicker and generally branched; nor are the outer root leaves quite fo much blunted as in that. Leaves about three times shorter than the stem, which is generally refractedly reclined and from a foot to a foot and half high. Corolla broad-funnelform, segments several times longer than the tube, which is about equal to the spathe; ungues longer than the laminæ with about one half of each side hyaline; laminæ rounded, entire, not notched as the fame generally are in Isqualida. Organs of fructification declined-affurgent; stigmas overtopping the anthers, but shorter than the

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