* CYCLOBOTHRA lutea. 



Pale Yellow Cyclohoth^a. 



HEXANDIIIA TRIGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Liliace^, Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 279.) 



CYCLOBOTHRA. Supra, fol. 1661. 



C. lutca ; caule bulbifero, pedunculis bracteis longioribus, floribus solitariis cam- 

 paimlatis, petalis rhombeo-ovatis acuminatis apice calvis sepalls calvis con- 

 coloribus longioribus. 

 Cyclobothra barbata. Sweet Fl. Card. t. 273. 



Caulis gracilis, subsimplex, pedalis et ultra, Icete viridis, in axillis 

 foliorum bulbillifer. Flores solitarii, nutantes, pedunculis bracteis longiori- 

 bus. Sepala lutea, ovata, acuminata, intus glabra, nulla barbce vestigio. 

 Petala ovata suhrhomboidea, apice angusla, facie barbata, sub medio fove- 

 ata extus gibbosa. 



This pretty species was obtained some years since from 

 Mexico by Mr. Tate, and has now become dispersed through 

 many collections. It appears to grow freely in a light mix- 

 ture of peat and loam, and to require no other protection 

 than a good pit. 



It represents a form of the genus in which the segments 

 of the flower curve outward, instead of inward, and which 

 consequently approaches still more nearly to Fritillaria than 

 the kinds previously figured. If this difi'erence were always 

 accompanied by the property of bearing little bulbs in the 

 bosom of the leaves, as happens in this and some others, it 

 might perhaps be considered of generic importance. But it 

 seems that C.fusca has no bulbs, although agreeing other- 

 wise with the Mexican Cyclobotliras ; so that no ground 

 can be said to exist for their separation. 



When this plant was first introduced, it was supposed to 

 be the same as the Fritillaria barbata, published in Mr. 

 Kunth's account of the plants discovered by Humboldt and 

 Bonpland ; but we learn from the last volume of Romer and 

 Schultes that that species has a bearded horse-shoe mark 

 on its sepals, no trace of which can be found in the 

 plant now figured. We are therefore unwillingly obliged 



* See folio 1661. 



