Tristagma

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Tristagma (Greek, three drops, alluding to the 3 nectar-glands of the ovary). Including Stephanolirion. Liliaceae. Herbs with subglobose tunicate corms, used for fall-blooming. Lvs. radical, few, narrowly linear: scape simple, leafless: fls. in a terminal umbel, not numerous, pedicelled; perianth salver-shaped, tube cylindrical, 6-lobed; crown fleshy at the throat or lacking; stamens 6, in 2 rows; ovary sessile, ovoid; 3-celled: caps. loculicidally dehiscent.—About 7 species, Chile and Patagonia; probably to be planted in spring in this country.

T. narcissoides, Benth. & Hook., does not appear to be in the American trade. It is 1 ft. or more high, with short narrow-linear lvs., and white fls. bearing a bright orange narcissus-like crown of 3-6 broad unequal more or less connate scales. CH


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