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* CALOCHORTUS venústus. 
Spotted Calochortus. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LILIACER, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p.279.) | 
CALOCHORTUS Pursh. Flores erecti, explanati, patentes. Sepala gla- 
bra, convoluto-acuminata, Petala majora, rotundata, plana, medio barbata, basi 
maculata, glabra, Stylus o. Stigmata 3. Capsula triangularis, coriacea. Semina 
serie simplici affixa, plana, testâ suberosâ.—Bulbi tunicati (Californici), foliis 
convoluto-acuminatis rigidis. 
C. venustus ; caule paucifolio subbifloro sepalis erectis, petalis preter fasciculum 
pilorum glabris basi rubris et versus apicem maculá rubrá notatis. Bentham 
in Hort. Trans. vol. 1, n. s. p. 412, t. 15, fig. 3. 
Caulis solidus, Jlexuosus, erectus, sub-bipedalis, striatus, apicem versus 
subramosus. Folia linearia, acuminata, siccatione convoluta, basi amplexi- 
caulia, Pedunculi circiter 4 pollices longi, rigidi, uniflori. Sepala ovato- 
lanceolata, acuminata, recta, herbacea, petalorum longitudine. Petala cune- 
ato-subrotunda, margine crispata, versus basin pulvillo pilorum longorum 
pilisg. quibusdam sparsis barbata, basi ipsa glubra ; alba, basi lutescentia, 
vittá cuneiformi basilari coccined apice lutescente, tunc maculd subrotundd 
‘nterruptd castaneá luteo-limbatá, denique cis apicem maculá pallidá san- 
‘guinolentd notata. 
A very remarkable and beautiful bulbous plant, sent 
from California by Mr. Douglas to the Horticultural Society, 
in the last part of whose transactions it has been published 
by Mr. Bentham. Like the Cyclobothras, lately figured in 
this work, it flowers at Midsummer, at which season it con- 
tributes, with some other species, to give guite a new feature 
to the flower garden. 
It appears to be cultivated without difficulty, but to be 
less hardy than the species of Cyclobothra; hitherto it has 
een planted in the open border in the summer only; its 
ulbs have been taken up as soon as the leaves were 
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* Supra, fol. 1152. 
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