Bot. [mod.L., f. the name of the French botanist Antoine Vallot (1594–1671).] A genus of amaryllidaceous plants, characterized by rich scarlet flowers, and consisting of but one species, V. purpurea, the Scarborough lily.
1837. W. Herbert, Amaryllidaceæ, 133.
1852. G. W. Johnston, Cottage Gard. Dict., 904. A cross-seedling … obtained … from Cyrtanthus obliquus, which no one could distinguish from a Vallota of the same age.
1882. Garden, 25 March, 206/2. Vallotas may be increased by the quantities of offsets which they produce.
