1663 
* CYCLOBOTHRA lútea. 
Pale Yellow Cyclobothra. 
HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LiLiAcEm, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 279.) 
CYCLOBOTHRA. Supra, fol. 1661. 
C. lutea ; caule bulbifero, pedunculis bracteis longioribus, floribus solitariis cam- 
panulatis, petalis rhombeo-ovatis acuminatis apice calvis sepalis calvis con- 
coloribus longioribus. 
Cyclobothra barbata. Sweet Fl. Gard. t. 273. SAU 
Caulis gracilis, subsimplex, pedalis et ultra, letê viridis, in azillis 
Joliorum bulbillifer. Flores solitarii, nutantes, pedunculis bracteis longiori- 
bus. Sepala lutea, ovata, acuminata, intus glubra, nullo barbe vestigio. 
Petala ovata subrhomboidea, apice angusta, facie barbata, sub medio fove- 
ata extus gibbosa. 
This pretty species was obtained some years since from 
Mexico by Mr. Tate, and has now become dispersed through 
many collections. It appears to grow freely in a light mix- 
ture of peat and loam, and to reguire no other protection 
than a good pit. 
It represents a form of the genus in which the segments 
of the flower curve outward, instead of inward, and which 
consequently approaches still more ve to Fritillaria than 
the kinds previously figured. If this di erence were rub is 
accompanied by the property of bearing little bulbs in the 
bosom of the leaves, as happens in this and some others, ìt 
might perhaps be considered of generic importance. But it 
seems that C. fusca has no bulbs, although agreeing other- 
wise with the Mexican Cyclobothras; so that no ground 
can be said to exist for their separation. ' 
When this plant was first introduced, it was supposed to 
be the same as the Fritillaria barbata, published in Mr. 
Kunth's account of the plants discovered by Humboldt and 
Bonpland ; but we learn from the last volume of Rómer and 
Schultes that that species has a bearded horse-shoe mark 
on its sepals, no trace of which can be found in the 
plant now figured. We are therefore unwillingly obliged 
* See folio 1661. 
