54 Addisonia 



pubescence. The leaves are numerous, dark green, linear-lanceo- 

 late, sessile, and arranged in spiral phyllotaxy, with conspicuous 

 dark-colored bulblets in the axils of nearly all of the uppermost 

 leaves. The flowers are few to as many as twenty-five or more, de- 

 pending upon the vigor of the plant. The flower is nodding and the 

 perianth-segments are strongly recurving and bright salmon-red 

 in color with numerous bluish-black spots. The six stamens 

 diverge widely. The anthers are red. The capsule is obovoid in 

 outline, broadly blunt at the apex, with a groove lengthwise 

 in the middle of each cell. Well-developed single bulbs of flowering 

 plants are usually from one and a half to three inches in diameter, 

 globular in shape, white or pale yellow or sometimes tinged with 

 purple especially near the surface of the soil, and multiplying by en- 

 closed buds. The roots are coarsely fibrous and abundant both 

 from base of bulb and at the nodes of the part of the stem that is in 

 the soil. 



A. B. Stout. 



Explanation of Plate. Fig. 1. — Flower. Fig. 2. — Bulb, and lower portion 

 of stem with roots and bulblets, X M- Fig. 3. — Upper leaf, with portion of stem 

 and bulblet. Fig. 4. — Capsule. Fig. 5. — Cross section of capsule. 



