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retained in generic rank, especially since a new plant from 

 Lower California with a somewhat similarly inflated and as 

 brilliantly scarlet colored perianth, must also be accorded 

 a like grade, on account of the very distinctive character of 

 its androecium. 



SKODI^A, Smith in part. 



Tube of the perianth thin and subtranslucent, campanulate 

 or somewhat urceolate, more or less inflated and angular or 

 saccate; segments about equaling the tube, campanulate- 

 or rotate-spreading and often somewhat recurved. Fila- 

 ments 6, inserted on the throat of the perianth, coalescent with 

 the tube below and disappearing from its surface, developed 

 above the insertion into petaloid appendages, those opposite 

 the outer segments sterile, or with a half-sized anther, the 

 other three always fertile. Anthers basifixed. Ovary sessile, 

 or nearly so. Style stout. Stigma 3-lobed. Leaves 2, 

 ■deep green, very fleshy. Scape tall, weak and tortuous, or, 

 in several species occasionally twining under the many- 

 flowered, compact umbel. — Smith, Linn. Trans, x. 3. excl. 

 B. grandiflova ; Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xi, 375, in part; 

 S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. 236, and Bot. Calif, ii. 

 152, in part. Dichelostemma, Kunth. Enum. iv. 269; Wood, 

 Proc. Phil. Acad. 1868, 173. 31acroscapa, Kell., Pacific, 

 1854. StropJioUrion, Torrey, Pac. E. Rep. iv. 149. t. 

 23. Rupalleya, Moriere, Bull. Linn. Soc. Norm. 1863. 

 Mookera, in part, of Salisb. Parad. Lond., and of Britten, 

 Journ. Bot. xxiv. 51. 



* Fertile stayneiis 3; periajiih-tuhe much constricted under the 

 segments. 



B. VOLUBILIS, Baker, 1. c. 377. Scape 4 — 10 feet high, in 

 smaller plants tortuous only, in larger ones firmly twin- 

 ing towards the summit; perianth rose-purple, 6 — 8 lines 

 long; tube 3 — 4 lines in diameter, hardly as long, hexagonal, 

 the angles somewhat saccately enlarged about midway; 



