Tan. 5989. 
BRODIAA MULTIFLORA. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord, Litiacez.—Tribe, MILLEx. 
Genus, Bropiza, Smith ; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p. 375). 
Bropixa multiflora ; bulbo fibroso-tunicato 1-poll. diametro, foliis scapum 
superantibus lineari-elongatis 1—2-pedalibus 3-5 poll. latis _carnosulis 
subacutis supra concavis subtus convexis, scapo gracili fragili, bractels 
plurimis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, foribus subcapitatis sessilibus v. 
pedicellatis, perianthio 4-2 poll. longo ceruleo, tubo ventricoso, lobis 
tubo subbrevioribus oblongis apice obtusis subincurvis, staminodiis 
brevibus latis obtusis, antheris sessilibus 2-cuspidatis, ovarlo sessill, 
seminibus loculis paucis oblongis. no 
Bropiaa multiflora, Benth. Pl. Hartweg, p. 8389; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. vol. xi. p. 377. 
B, parviflora, Torr. and Gray, Bot. Pacif. Railw. Exped. p. 125; Wood in 
Proc. Acad. Philad. 1867, p. 172. 
A charming Californian bulb, discovered by Hartweg 1n 
1848, and more recently gathered by Fremont, Bridges, 
Lobb, and various other collectors in the Sacramento valley, 
Utah, and elsewhere. It belongs to the section Lubrodiaa 
of the genus, as reformed by Baker, which genus now 
Includes five species, all natives of America west of the 
Rocky Mountains. Of these B. grandiflora is figured in this 
work at Tab. 2877 ; and the beautiful B. coccimea at 
Tab. 5857. For the opportunity of figuring B. multifiora L 
am indebted to W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., who 
flowered it in May of the present year, from bulbs commu- 
hicated by Max Leichtlin, of Carlsruhe. 
Descr. Bulb one inch in diameter, depressed-globose, 
clothed with a finely reticulated coat. Leaves few, ones 
two feet long, one-sixth to one-third of an inch broad, 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1872. 
