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* CYCLOBOTHRA alba. 
White Cyclobothra. 
HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LiLIACER, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 279.) 
CYCLOBOTHRA Sweet. Flores nutantes ventricosi v.campanulati. Sepala 
glabra, acuta. Petala majora et dissimilia, barbata, infra medium fovea glabra 
nectarifera alté impressa extus gibbosa. Stigmata 3. Capsula triptera, coriaceo- 
membranacea. Semina serie simplici affixa, angulata. Bulbi tunicati Califor- 
nici et Mexicani, foliis planis acuminatis. 
C. alba ; umbellâ 2-3-florâ, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus, floribus oblongis 
inflatis, petalis ovatis obtusissimis margine nudiusculis fovea leviter impressá 
sepalis ovato-lanceolatis duplô longioribus. Bentham in Hort. Trans. 
n. S. vol. 1, p. 413, t. 14, fig. 3. ‘ 
Calochortus albus. Douglas in litt. 
Caulis teres, erectus, glaber, versus apicem ramosus, 3-4-florus. Folia 
glauca ; inferius lineari-lanceolatum caule sepe altius, basi sub terra bre- 
vissime vaginans ; superiora multd breviora, pedunculos excedentia. Flores 
solitarii, v. 2-3, oblongi, ventricosi, mulantes, ovi columbini magnitudine. 
Sepala viridilutea, ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, glabra, petalis dupld brevi- 
ora. Petala alba, oblonga, concava, obtusa, per omnem faciem sparse bar- 
bata, sed pilis marginalibus infleris vix ciliata ; foved nectariferd flavd pilis 
absconditá, extüs valdê gibbosá. Stamina 6, hypogyna ; antheris linearibus 
introrsis. Ovarium oblongum, tripterum. Stigmata tria, recurva. 
A Californian bulbous plant, introduced by the Hor- 
ticultural Society, in whose Transactions it has recently 
been published by Mr. Bentham. Along with the following 
species, and some other plants from the same country, it 
forms quite a new class of Horticultural objects, of great 
interest; representing, at midsummer, which is their time 
of flowering, the Fritillaries and Tulips of the spring. 
They are probably quite as hardy as Tulips, like which 
they should be treated ; unless it should prove that their 
bulbs are capable of living all the year round in the open 
* From kuxkoc a circle, and ßoSpos a pit, in allusion to the circular depres- 
sion from which the petals distil honey. 7 
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