58 Addisonia 



quarter of an inch wide. The flowers are borne in a loose, elon- 

 gate raceme, on smooth, slender, decurving pedicels, two to five 

 inches long. The perianth is two to three inches in diameter, 

 orange-red. The perianth-segments are strongly recurved, lance- 

 olate, blunt at the tip and narrowed at the base; they bear fleshy 

 papillae on the lower part and have chocolate-colored spots along 

 two-thirds of their length from the base. The dark brown, 

 oblong anthers are borne on smooth, awl-shaped filaments one and 

 one half to two inches long, spreading at the tip. The pistil is 

 smooth, one and one half to two inches tall. The capsule is 

 erect, oblong-ovoid, truncate and depressed on the top. Well- 

 formed capsules are one and one quarter inches long and three 

 quarters of an inch in diameter. 



Hester M. Rusk. 



Explanation op Plate. Fig. 1 . — Flower and pedicel, with part of stem and 

 leaves. Fig. 2.— Bulb, X V*. Fig. 3.— Capsule. 



