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Veatciiia, (Kellogg). — Flowers six-parted, persistent, articulated 

 with the pedicel. Filaments inserted into the base of the segments, 

 inside of a nectariferous fleshy crystalline circle or network ; ovary 

 sessile. 



Veatchia crystalUna, (Kellogg) Veatch's Diamond Flower. — A 

 bulbous plant, with a scape six to eight inches in height, umbel few- 

 flowered, flowers white, sub-campanulate rotate, with a narrow funnel- 

 form base or obsolete tube. Stamens six, opposite the petals, rising 

 from the mid-rib nerve at the border of the crystalline throat. (N. 

 B. The inner petals connivent by means of a somewhat enlarged 

 fleshy crystalline network, entirely separate from the filaments, pass- 

 ing outside, thus surrounding the bases, which are neither dilated nor 

 membranous.) Anthers' blue, filament attached near the base ; sub- 

 sagittate, apex recurved, segments of the perianth with revolute mar- 

 gins, three outer lanceolate, conduplicate-acute above, apex ascending 

 as if cornuted ; three inner proper petals ligulate, emarginate, apicu- 

 late by the terminus of the mid-rib nerve ; style scarcely longer than 

 the stamens ; stigma sub-three-lobed, stigmatose, continuous with the 

 capsule ; ovary sessile, broadly pyramidal, sub-triangular, three- 

 celled ; seeds few, black and angular, shnilar to Brodicea. 



Dr. Kellogg also exhibited a drawing and specimens of a new plant 

 of the Asphodel family, found by Dr. J. A. Veatch at New Idria, and 

 cultivated by Mr. H. G. Bloomer, botanical curator to the Academy. 

 For this plant a new genus is also formed. 



Bloomeria, (Kellogg). — Perianth six-parted rotate, persistent, 

 stamens six, fertile, three opposite inner petals longest, filaments sepa- 

 rately entering a nectariferous funnel-form tube. Flowers in a simple 

 umbel, root bulbous, solid. 



B. Aurea, (Kellogg) Golden Bloomeria. — Scape slender, (one 

 foot in length) minutely scabrous backwards along the strise of both 

 scape and pedicel, scape hollow. 



Leaves radical, (solitary ?) fleshy, three-nerved, (the other two outer 

 nerves indistinct or obsolete) three-eighths to one-half of an inch in 

 width, as long as scape, margin scabrous, otherwise glabrous, narrowed 

 and channeled towards the base. 



Umbel twenty -five to thirty-flowered. Flowers deeply parted to the 

 base, segments equal, linear-lanceolate, acute, three-nerved, sub-revo- 

 lute or widely spreading ; apex of the three outer divisions apiculate 

 beaked. Filaments filiform, glabrous, included each in its respective 

 tube, and attached to the lowermost bises of the petals, and together 

 with the petal somewhat adnate to the base of the ovary. These 



