64 Addisonia 



measures two inches in height and one and three quarters inches in 

 breadth. The stem is tall, ribbed, three to six feet high and not 

 bulbiferous. The leaves are scattered and lanceolate. The flowers 

 are in umbels, with erect broadly funnel-shaped perianths, narrowed 

 at the base; the color is cadmium orange, shading darker, with small 

 brown spots. There are a few papillae at the base of the perianth- 

 segments. The capsules are well formed, one and a half inches long 

 and one inch wide, acutely angled or crowned at the top and ridged. 

 The anthers are brownish orange ; the filaments are yellow ; and the 

 style is yellow with a brown stigma. 



Helen M. Fox. 



Explanation of Plate. Fig. 1. — Portion of stem, with flower and bud. 

 Fig. 2. — Bulb, showing fibrous roots from stem above and both fibrous and 

 contractile roots from base, X Vi- Fig- 3. — Capsule, fully developed but still 

 green. 



