50 Addisonia 



frequently once or twice jointed, the segments readily taking root, 

 forming new bulbs. The stem is smooth and from two to five feet 

 tall. The leaves are sessile and linear-oblanceolate, ranging to 

 six inches in length, mostly single and alternate, with usually one 

 or two whorls in the middle portion of the stem. The flowers are 

 from one to ten in a raceme. The perianth is funnel-shaped with 

 the outer half of the segments strongly recurving; the color is 

 lemon-yellow, more or less spotted with purplish brown. The 

 anthers are purplish brown. No capsule has been seen on plants 

 grown at the New York Botanical Garden, but it is described as 

 narrow, oblong-acute, two inches long and half an inch wide. 



A. B. Stout. 



Explanation ok Plate. Fig. 1. — Upper portion of a flowering stem. Fig. 

 2. — Bulb, showing jointed scales, X ]/2- Fig. 3. — Segment of scale, with bulblet 

 at base, X 2. Fig. 4. — Segment of scale, with bulblet at apex, X 2. 



