Tas, 7092. 
CLINTONIA AwprewstraNna. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. Lit1acez.—Tribe MeproLez, 
Genus Cuintonia, Rajfin.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 832.) 
CLINTONIA Andrewsiana; caule sesquipedali, foliis 4 magnis oblongis acutis 
sessilibus prope basin aggregatis, unico reducto mediali, floribus in 
umbellam terminalem multifloram 2-3 paucifloris lateralibus szpissime 
additis dispositis, pedicellis pubescentibus flore subequilongis, bracteis 
parvis lanceolatis, perianthio rubro-purpureo segmentis oblanceolato- 
oblongis basi leviter gibbosis, staminibus perianthio brevioribus filamentis 
pilosis, ovario oblongo, stylo ovario equilongo. 
C. Andrewsiana, Torrey Bot. Whipple, p. 94; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
vol. xiv. p. 585; S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. p.272; Bot. Calif. 
vol, ii. p. 180. 
C. Andrewsii, Wood in Proc. Acad. Philad. 1868, p. 174. 
Clintonia is a genus of baccate Liliaces, which contains 
six species, four of which are North American and two 
Kast Asiatic. This is the only species in which the 
flowers are at all showy. In all the others they are 
greenish-white. Two of them were figured long ago in 
the Boranican Maaazinz (Tabs. 1155 and 1403), both under 
the name of Smilacina borealis. C. Andrewsiana is very local, 
being confined to the coast ranges of California, from Hum- 
boldt County to Santa Cruz. No specimen existed at Kew, 
either in the herbarium or the garden till very lately. 
Our drawing was made from two plants that flowered last 
June, one in the herbaceous ground at Kew, and the other 
in the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, from which it was 
kindly sent to the Royal Gardens by Professor Bayley 
Balfour. It requires to be grown in a shady position in 
a bog or peat-bed. : 
Descr. Rootstock a short slender rhizome. Stem about 
a foot and a half long, bearing near its base four sessile 
oblong acute glabrous leaves six or eight inches long, and 
a single much smaller leaf, at the middle. lowers nu- 
merous, forming a dense terminal umbel, with usually 
two or three others lower down on the peduncle ; pedicels 
DECEMBER Ist, 1889. 
