Tab. 6989. 

 BRODLEA (Triteleia) Howellti. 



Native of the Western United States. 



Rat. Ord. Liliace^:. — Tribe Allied. 

 Genus Bbodma, Smith ; {Benih. et Eoolc.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 800.) 



Bkodijea. (Triteleia) Hoicellii ; bulbo parvo globose, foliis- 2 radicalibus linearibiis 

 glabris viridibus facie canaliculars, scapo gracili 1-2-pedali, nmbellis 4-8- 

 floris, bracteis pluribus pawis lanceolatis membranaceis, pedicellis flore sub- 

 aequilongis, perianthio albido vel pallide lilacino, segmentis oblongis obtusis 

 viridi earinatis, tubo late infundibulari paulo brevioribu?, antlieris omnibus 

 perfectis filamentis brevibus insequalibus, ovario stipitato, stylo brevi. 



B. Howellii, & Wats, in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. (Contr. ix.) p. 301. 



This is a new species of Lindley's genus Triteleia, which 

 in my monograph of the gamophyllous Liliaeeas, published 

 in 1871 in the eleventh volume of the Journal of the 

 Linnean Society, I reduced to Milla, but which Mr. 

 Bentham, following Dr. Sereno Watson, has placed under 

 Brodicea. The essential difference between Triteleia and 

 the original Brodiasas of Smith is that in the latter three 

 of the anthers are suppressed, whilst here all the six are 

 fully developed. Since the publication of my paper several 

 new species have been discovered in California and the 

 Western United States. The present plant is allied to B. 

 laxa and B. peduncular is, both of which are tolerably 

 familiar to English cultivators, though neither of them 

 has yet been figured in the Botanical Magazine. B. Ho- 

 wellii was discovered in Washington territory, by the 

 collector whose name it bears, in the year 1879. Our 

 drawing was made from a plant flowered in the south-west 

 of Ireland by Mr. W. E. Gumbleton last April. 



Descr. Bulh globose, half an inch in diameter; outer 

 tunics thin, brown, splitting into long threads at the top. 

 Leaves two, linear, radical, contemporary with the flowers, 

 bright green, glabrous, channelled down the face, about a 

 foot long. Peduncle slender, terete, fragile, sometimes 

 flexuose, one or two feet long. Flowers four to eight in 

 an umbel, white or pale lilac ; spathe-valves several, small, 



apsil 1st, 1888. 



