and in the place of insertion of its fertile ones : it is also distinguishable by 
the want of hypogynous scales, which, although not much developed in 
Br. congesta, undoubtedly exist in Br. grandiflora, where, however, they 
have been overlooked by Dr. Hooker in the Botanical Magazine, both in 
his figure and description. The two other species above alluded to as 
having been found by Mr. M‘Rae at the same time with this, were 
1. L. ixioides ; foliis linearibus glaucescentibus, limbi laciniis oblongis laciniatis subequali- 
bus, staminibus sterilibus fusiformibus, pedunculis equalibus tubo duplò longioribus. 
Brodiwa ixioides. Bot. mag. 
2. L. alliacea ; foliis linearibus ...... , limbi laciniis erectis acuminatis subequalibus, 
staminibus sterilibus clavatis, pedunculis valdè inequalibus : longioribus capillaribus. 
Brodixa alliacea. Miers's travels. 
Nearly related to Brodiea are two other unpublished genera, to which 
Dr. Hooker has made allusion in the Botanical Magazine. They are both 
characterised by the upper stamens or those opposite the corolline segments 
of the perianthium being fertile; but they differ from each other in the 
position and form of their stamina, and in the form of their perianthium. 
One of these is marked in Mr. Douglas's papers Triteleia, which we 
suspect is a name furnished to him by Dr. Hooker. It may be characterised 
thus : — 
TRITELEIA. 
Perianthium hypocrateriforme, cum pedicello continuum, limbo 6-partito. Stamina 6, 
fertilia; tribus è fauce ante lacinias corollinas, tribus è tubo alternis. Squame hypo- 
gyne nulle. Ovarium pedunculatum, 3-loculare, polyspermum ; stylus trigonus, cum 
ovario continuus; stigmata tria.—Herbe ( Austro- et Boreali- Americane) cormis indu- 
viatis. Flores umbellati. 
LT. bivalvis ; foliis linearibus scapo (palmari) erecto duplò longioribus, involucri 
diphylli foliolis latis foliaceis erectis, staminibus superioribus infrà faucem exortis. 5 
Found by Mr. M‘Rae at the baths of Collina, near St. Jago in Chile, at the limits 
of the snow. 
2. T. uniflora ; foliis linearibus scapo (pedali) debili subzqualibus, involucro vagi- 
nante apice bifido pedunculo filiformi dupló breviore, umbellá 1-florá, staminibus supe- 
rioribus infrà faucem exortis. 
Found in Mendoza by Dr. Gillies, to whom we are indebted for a specimen. : 
3. T. grandiflora; folis linearibus glaucis scapo erecto (2-pedali) brevioribus, inə 
volucro triphyllo patente membranaceo, umbellá congestá 5-6-florá, staminibus superioribus 
suprà faucem exortis, lineá elevatà ad basin tumidá è filamentis tubum decurrente. 
Found in North-west America by Mr. Douglas. It is growing in the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society, where it flowers in July. 
The other genus, which is the Brodisea grandiflora of Nuttall, but not of 
Smith, is very nearly related to Allium, on which account it may be called 
Hesperoscordum. It serves to establish a transition from the tubular-flowered 
to the hexapetalous genera of Asphodeleee, and is unquestionably no Millea, 
as has been supposed. The following is its essential character : 
HESPEROSCORDUM. 
Perianthium campanulatum, 6-fidum, cum pedicello articulatum: laciniis calyeinis 
acuminatis carinatis, corollinis obtusis. Stamina 6, fertilia, filamentis dilatatis mem- 
branaceis wqualibus è fauce exortis. Squame hypogynz nulle. Ovarium sessile, tri- 
loculare, polyspermum ; stylus teres, cum ovario articulatus; stigma simplex. Capsula 
3-locularis, 3-valvis, polysperma, valvis medio septiferis. Semina nigra, angulata, sub- 
crustacea. — Flores umbellati. Herba (Boreali-Americana) cormis induviatis. Flores 
umbellati, 
Hesperoscordum hyacinthinum. 
Brodiza grandiflora. Nuttall gen. 215. 
Native of the plains of the Missouri and of the north-west of America, in which last 
country it was found by Mr. Douglas. 
J. L. 
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