lf)76 



CALOCHORTUS splendens. 



Satiny Calochortus. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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

 Botamj, p. 279). 



CALOCHORTUS. Supra, fol. 1669. 



C. splendens ; caule 3-5-floro, sepalis revolutis, petalis intus sparse pilosis in 

 parte superlori glabris basi maculatis extus ecostatis. Bent ham in Hart. 

 Trails, vol. l,n. s. p. 411, t. \5,Jig. 1. 



C. venusto similis habitu, staturd, et figurd florum ; diversissimus tamen 

 horum colore, petalorum hirsutie, sepalisque revolutis. Petala tota lilacina, 

 immaculata nisi ad ipsam basin saturatiorem subsaccntam ; ibi adest pul- 

 villus pilorum densissimorum, brrviian, rigidorum, a pills longis debilibus 

 sparsis faciei petalorum intervallo calvo sejunctus. Flores paulo minores 

 sunt cjuam in C. venusto. 



Another fine species of Californian bulb, obtained by 

 the Horticultural Society from Mr. Douglas. It requires 

 precisely the same treatment as C. venustus, (fol. 1669) to 

 which we refer our readers. From that species it differs, 

 not only in the colour of its petals, but in its flowers being 

 somewhat smaller, and its sepals rolled back from the point; 

 the arrangement of the hairs upon its petals is also very 

 different. In C. venustus there is just above the base of the 

 petals an oblong tuft of rather loose hairs, which gradually 

 scatter themselves over the petal for a short distance round 

 the tuft ; but in C. splendens, the tuft is smaller, and com- 

 posed of very short firm hairs collected into a compact ob- 

 long mass, almost resembling a wart, and separated by a 

 smooth interval from the scattered hairs of the petal, which 

 are long and numerous. 



* See fol. 1152. 



