Trimezia
(from treis, three, and merizo, to divide; in allusion to the trimerous division of the flower). SYNS. Lansbergia, Poarchon, Remaclea, Xanthocromyon. ORD. Irideae. A genus embracing about half-a-dozen species of stove, bulbous plants, natives of the West Indies and South America. Flowers many in a spathe, pedicellate; perianth tube none, the segments free, shortly unguiculate; stamens opposite the outer perianth segments; spathe solitary, terminal, or two or three at the axils of the floral leaves. Leaves few at the base of the stem, long, flat, and prominently ribbed, sometimes terete and Rush-like; floral one solitary, or the stem wholly leafless. Only one species has been introduced. For culture, see Iris.
T. martinicensis (Martinique). fl. four to six in a cluster; perianth segments bright yellow, very fugacious, the three outer ones 5/8in. to 3/4in. long, mottled at the throat, the three inner much smaller; scape equalling the leaves, with a single, reduced, clasping leaf. April. l., radical ones about six, erect, narrow-linear, 1ft. long, three to four lines broad, gradually narrowed to a point. West Indies, &c., 1848. SYNS. Cipura martinicensis (Ref. B. 310), Iris martinicensis (B. M. 416), Lansbergia caracasana.