Tas. 6123. 
BRODI ALA VOLUBILIS. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. Lin1racem.—Tribe MILLez. 
Genus Bropima, Smith; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 375). 
Broprma (Stropholirion) volubilis ; cormo globoso, foliis synanthiis carnoso- 
herbaceis 1-1} pedalibus 4-4 poll. latis, seapo volubili prelongo, spathis 
4—5 oblongo-lanceolatis, umbellis 15-30 floris, perianthio campanulato- 
infundibuliformi tubo subventricoso, segmentis suberectis obtusis, 
antheris sessilibus alatis, staminodiis ligulatis, ovario breviter stipitato, 
Bropiaa volubilis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 877. 
Srropnotirion californicum, Zorrey in Bot. Whipple Exped., p. 149, t. 23; 
Benth. Plant. Hartweg, 339. 
Rupatieya volubilis, Moriére in Bull, Soc. Linn. Norm., viii. cum ic 
ex Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xi. Bibl. 25. 
Dicuetostemma californica, Wood in Proc. Philad. Acad., 1867, 173. 
It is not surprising that so remarkable a plant as this 
should have been erected into a genus; or that, considering 
the chaotic state of North American descriptive botany, it 
should have had two made on purpose for it; or that it 
should in fact have been referred by name to three other 
genera before Mr. Baker, in his revision of the Liliacee, 
reduced it to its proper position as Brodiea, reserving for it, 
however, as a sectional name, Torrey’s generi¢ one of Stropho- 
lirion. For the justice of this view I would refer to our plate 
of the floral structure of Brodiea multiflora (Tab. 5989), 
where it will be seen, that except by the twining scape, 
Stropholirion differs from that genus in no important par- 
ticular. ‘ 
Brodiaa volubilis was discovered by Hartweg in the 
Sacramento mountains, California, in 1846, and has since 
been found by various collectors in Sonora and other places. 
The scape sometimes attains twelve feet in length. 
The plant figured was raised and sent for figuring by 
Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, in July of the present year. 
SEPTEMBER, 1874. 
