Tas. 6527, 
CALOCHORTUS PULOBELLUE, 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. Littacka.—Tribe Tureen. 
Genus Carocuortus, Pursh ; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 302.) 
CaLocHortvs (Macrodenus) pulchellus ; bulbo ovoideo, foliis basalibus 1-2 lineari- 
bus vel lanceolatis firmis glabris, caule subpedali superne ramoso, floribus 6-12 
pendulis laxe corymbosis, perianthii globosi lutei segmentis exterioribus oblongis 
acutis glabris, interioribus orbiculatis facie et margine pilosis conspicue foveo- 
latis, staminibus perianthio duplo brevioribus antheris oblongis, capsulis 
oblongis profunde trilobatis angulis dorso alatis. 
C, pulchellus, Dougl. MSS.; Wood in Proc. Acad. Phil. 1868, p. 168; Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 303; S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. 
vol. xiv. p. 262, 
Cyclobothra pulchella, Benth. in Trans. Hort. Soc. n. s. vol. i. p. 415, tab. 14, fig. 1; 
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1662; Kunth Enum. vol. iv. p. 228; Regel Garten- 
Jlora, tab. 802. 
The Calochorti, of which between twenty and thirty 
species are now known, belong exclusively to California, 
British Columbia, the Rocky Mountains, and Mexico, and 
one and all seem to require greater heat than an English 
summer gives them to mature their bulbs properly. The 
present species and C. albus are well marked from all the 
others by their more robust habit and numerous large 
drooping globose flowers, which never expand fully and are 
much less fugitive than in the more brilliantly-coloured 
C. venustus and its neighbours. Calochortus and Cyelo- 
bothra slide into one another so gradually that it is not 
worth keeping them up as distinct genera. _ 
The present plant was one of those introduced by 
Douglas about 1830, when travelling for the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society, and was originally described and figured 
by Mr. Bentham half a century ago. Our drawing was 
made from a specimen that flowered at Kew in the summer 
of 1879. 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1880. 
