LILY FAMILY 



399 



2. Bloomeria clevelandi S. \\'ats. Cleveland's Golden Star. Fig. 978. 



Blooineria clei-ehindi S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 376. 

 1885. 



Bulbs about 15 mm. in diameter, densely cov- 

 ered with brownish fibres. Scape 10-30 cm. 

 long, scabrous; leaves several, 6-15 cm. long, 

 2 mm. or less wide ; bracts 5-10 mm. long ; 

 umbels 8-20-flowered ; pedicels slender, spread- 

 ing 25-35 mm. long; perianth-segments 6-8 mm. 

 long; yellow with a brown midrib; appendages 

 smooth, obtuse at the apex; style 1.5 mm. long, 

 shorter than the ovarv. 



Dry mesas and hillsides in the vicinity of San 

 Diego; Lower Sonoran Zone. Type locality: on tlie 

 mesas near San Diego. 





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4. CALLIPRORA Lindl. Bot. Reg. 19: under pi. 1590. 1833. 



Scapes slender erect, arising from a depressed fibrous-coated corm. Leaves basal, few, linear, 

 flat. Flowers in an open bracted umbel, yellow with dark brown midveins. Perianth-tube 

 short, turbinate, not at all saccate, the segments rotate-spreading, about equalling the tube. 

 Stamens 6. all anther-bearing, inserted in 1 row on the throat, those opposite the outer segments 

 shorter; filaments with broad lateral appendages e.xtending their entire length and usuall\- 

 prolonged above in acute teeth; anthers linear-oblong to oval, versatile. Ovary ovoid, longer 

 than the short stipe. Capsul ovoid, narrowed to the short style ; seeds several in each cell. 

 [Greek meaning pretty face.] 



A California genus with only the following species. Tyjie species, Calliprorn ixioldes (Ait. f.) Greene. 



Anthers linear-oblong, 2-5 mm. long, creamy-white. 

 Anthers oval, 1-1.5 mm. long, creamy-white or blue. 



1. C. ixioides. 



2. C. scabra. 



1. Calliprora ixioides (Ait. f.) Greene. Common Callijn'ora or Pretty Face. 



Fig. 979. 



Oriiithogahiin ixioides Ait. f. Hort. Kew. ed 2, 2: 257. ISll. 

 Calliprora liitea Lindl. Bot. Reg. 19: pi. 1590. 1833. 

 Calliprora ixioides Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 319. 1894. 



Corm round-ovoid, 15-20 mm. in diameter, seated 

 3-10 cm. Scape 10— 15 cm. long, glabrous or sparsely and 

 minutely scabrous ; leaves exceeding the scape, 5-10 mm. 

 wide, glabrous or very sparsely scabrous ; bracts lanceo- 

 late, 10 mm. long ; umbel open. 3-35-flowered ; rays 20-40 

 mm. long; perianth yellow with broad brownish purple 

 midveins, 15-20 mm. long; tube turbinate; segments 

 ovate-lanceolate, nearly twice as long as the tube ; fila- 

 ments winged their whole length, at the apex produced 

 into an acute tooth about equalling the anther ; anthers 

 creamy-white, narrowly oblong. 2.5 mm. long; style 3-4 

 mm. long; capsule, 6 mm. long. 



Open hillsides and valleys usually in heavy soil, Upper 

 Sonoran and Transition Zones; California Coast Ranges, Men- 

 <locino County, to Santa Barbara. Type locality: California. 

 Collected by Menzies, 1796, probably at Monterey. 



Calliprora ixioides liigens (Greene) Abrams. iTritclcia Ingots Greene. Bull. Calif. .\cad. 2: 142. 1886. 

 Calliprora lugcits Greene, Man. Bay. Reg. 319. 1894. Brodiaea liigcns Baker, Gard. Chron. Ill, 20: 459. 

 1896. Hookcra ixioides lugctis Jepson. Fl. West. Middle Calif. 117. 1901. Brodiaea ixioides lugens Jepson, 

 Fl. West. Middle Calif, ed. 2, 101. 191 1.) Differs frcmi the typical form in having the apex of the appendages 

 rounded and not prolonged into free acute teeth, the tube of the corolla is also brownish purple. Vaea 

 Mountains, in the north Coast Ranges of California. 



