Froditea coccinea is a most brilliant-flowered bulb, a native 

 of Shasta County and Humboldt County in California, where 

 it was discovered by Mr. Lobb, and afterwards collected and 

 named by Wood. More recently it has been sent to England 

 by Mr. Bolander of San Francisco, and flowered both with 

 Mr. Thompson of Ipswich, and in the Eoyal Gardens of Kew, 

 May and June. 



Bescr. Bulb the size of a small chestnut. Leaves ten to 

 eighteen inches long, one quarter to one-third of an inch 

 broad, linear, obtuse, concave above, convex on the back. 

 Scape equalling the leaves, slender, erect. Umbels five to fif- 

 teen-flowered ; bracts membranous, lanceolate, shorter than 

 the curved pedicels. Flowers drooping, one inch and a half 

 long, rather blood-red than scarlet, abruptly replaced by 

 yellow below the lobes, which are green. Perianth-tube six- 

 lobed at the base, inflated above the middle; lobes short, 

 oblong-ovate, obtuse, recurved. Corona of six erect mem- 

 branous cuneate erose scales at the mouth of the perianth. 

 Anthers sessile, their tips exserted. Disk obscure. Ovary 

 elliptic-ovoid. Seeds oblong, black . — /. D. //. 



Fig. 1, Perianth laid open ; 2, pistil ; 3, transverse section of pistil : — 

 all maynified. 



