1676 
* CALOCHORTUS splêndens. 
Satiny Calochortus. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. L1LIACEIE, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p.279). 
CALOCHORTUS. Supra, fol. 1669. 
C. splendens ; caule 3-5-floro, sepalis revolutis, petalis intus sparsê pilosis in 
parte superiori glabris basi maculatis extus ecostatis. Bentham in Hort. 
Trans. vol. 1, n. s. p. 411, t. 15, fig. 1. 
C. venusto similis habitu, staturá, et figurá florum ; diversissimus tamen 
horum colore, petalorum hirsutie, sepalisque revolutis. Petala tota lilacina, 
tmmaculata nisi ad ipsam basin saturatiorem subsaccatam ; ibi adest pul- 
villus pilorum densissimorum, brevium, rigidorum, a pilis longis debilibus 
sparsis faciei petalorum intervallo calvo sejunctus. Flores paulo minores 
sunt quam in C. venusto. ; 
Another fine species of Californian bulb, obtained by 
the Horticultural Society from Mr. Douglas. It requires 
precisely the same treatmênt as C. venustus, (fol. 1669) to 
which we refer our readers. From that species it differs, 
not only in the colour of its petals, but in its flowers being 
somewhat smaller, and its sepals rolled back from the point; 
the arrangement of the hairs upon its petals is also very 
different. In C. venustus there is just above the base of the 
petals an oblong tuft of rather loose hairs, wbich gradually 
scatter themselves over the petal for a short distance round 
the tuft ; but in C. splendens, the tuft is smaller, and com- 
posed of very short firm hairs collected into a compact ob- 
long mass, almost resembling a wart, and separated bya ` 
smooth interval from the scattered hairs of the petal, which 
are long and numerous. 
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