Mm 



*CYCL0B6tHRA alba. 



White Cyclobothra. 



HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. LiLiACE^, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 279) 



CYCLOBOTHRA Sweet, /^/ores nutautes ventricosi v. campanulati. Sepala 

 glabra, acuta. Petala majora et dissimilia, barbata, infra medium fovea o-labra 

 nectarifera alte impressa extus gibbosa. Stigmata 3, Capsula triptera, conaceo- 



membranacea. Semina serie simplici afBxa, angulata. Bulbi tunicati Califor- 



nici et Mexicani, foliis plants acuminatis. 



C alba ; umbella 2-3-flora, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus, floribu? obloncis 

 inflatis, petalis ovatis obtusissimis margine nudiusculis fovea leviter impress^ 

 sepalis ovato-lanceolatis duplo longioribus. Bentham in Hart. IVans. 

 n. s. vol. 1, p. 413, t. \4,Jig. 3. 

 Calochortus albus. Douglas in litt. 



Caulis teres, erectus, glaber, versus apicem ramosus, 3-4-Jlorus. Folia 

 glauca ; inhnus lineari-lanceolatum caule scepe altius, basi sub terra hre- 

 vissinie vaginans ; superiora multo breviora, pedunculos excedentia. Floras 

 solitarii, v. 2-3, oblongi, ventricosi, nutantes, ovi columbini magnitudine . 

 Sepala viridilutea, ovato-lanceoluta, acuminata, glabra, petalis duplo brevi- 

 ora. Petala alba, oblonga, concava, obtusa, per omnem faciem sparse bar- 

 bata, sed pilis marginalibus inflexis vix ciliata ; fovea nectarifera Jlavu pilis 

 absconditd, extus valde gibbosa. Stamina 6, hypogyna ; antheris linearibus 

 introrsis. Ovarium oblongum, tripterum. Stigmata tria, recurva. 



A Californian bulbous plant, introduced by the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, in whose Transactions it has recently 

 been published by Mr. Bentham. Along with the following 

 species, and some other plants from the same country, it 

 forms quite a new class of Horticultural objects, of great 

 interest ; representing, at midsummer, which is their time 

 of flowering, the Fritillaries and Tulips of the spring. 



They are probably quite as hardy as Tulips, like which 

 they should be treated ; unless it should prove that their 

 bulbs are capable of living all the year round in the open 



* From kvkKoq a circle, and fio^poc a pit, in allusion to the circular depres- 

 sion from which the petals distil honey. 



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