Kreysigia
(named after F. L. Kreysig, 1769-1839, a German botanist, and author of a treatise on the comparison of animal and vegetable life). SYN. Tripladenia. ORD. Liliaceae. A monotypic genus, the species being a very pretty, half-hardy, herbaceous perennial, having a roughish, simple stem, and a knotty rhizome. It is of easy culture in any ordinary garden soil. Increased by divisions, in spring.
K. multiflora (many-flowered). fl. pink; peduncles slender, one, two, or rarely three-flowered; pedicels filiform. June. l. ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cordate-amplexicaul, acute, 2in. to 3in. long, prominently nerved. Stems ascending or erect. h. 9in. to 18in. Queensland and New South Wales, 1823. (B. M. 3905; L. B. C. 1511, under name of Schelhammera multiflora.)