Leichtlinii, (Tab. nost. 5862), and who sent a coloured sketch 
of it for figuring in April of the present year ; it arrived almost 
simultaneously with another specimen from Mr. William 
Saunders, who had received the bulbs from M. Leichtlin. 
The position of Calochortus amongst Liliacee is hardly 
settled. Though placed by Endlicher in the tribe Zulipee 
of Liliaceae, it differs most markedly from them in the sepaline 
outer perianth - segments, and three almost free stigmas, 
which resemble those of Melanthacee. The dehiscence of the 
anthers is, however, absolutely lateral. 
Descr. Zuber ovoid, clothed with brown fibrous coats. 
Scape four to ten inches high, simple, slender, flexuous, leafy. 
Leaves grassy, seven to ten inches long by a quarter to half 
an inch broad, striated, bright green and shining above, 
glaucous beneath, much exceeding the inflorescence. owers 
corymbose, three to six or more, the peduncles arising from 
sheathing bracts that are short and cymbiform, or elongate 
and grassy; pedicels half to one and a half inches long. 
Perianth one to almost two inches in diameter ; outer seg- 
ments much the smallest, sepaloid, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, 
pale green, quite glabrous; inner shortly clawed, nearly orbi- 
cular, apiculate, concave towards the base, the concavity 
answering to a subacute dorsal gibbosity ; whole inner sur- 
face clothed with a chalky-white filamentous beard; at their 
base is an orbicular blue lilac or purple spot, which is sur- 
rounded by a concentric band of the same colour. Filaments 
reddish ; anthers acute, pale blue, with marginal dehiscence. 
Ovary nearly elliptic-oblong, longitudinally 3-lobed, the 
lobes acute at the back; stigmas three, short, recurved. 
Capsule two-thirds to one and a third of an inch long, mem- 
branous, shining, three-winged, wings or valves transversely 
striate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Apex of pedicel, stamen and pistil ; 2, inner perianth-segment :— 
both magnified. 
