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Collected at Hough's Springs, Lake County, May, 1884, 

 by Mrs. M. K. Curran. Distinguished from H. stellar is by 

 the narrower segments of the perianth, and by the deltoid 

 filaments and the absence of appendages behind the anthers. 



H. FiLiroLiA. Scape slender, 6 — 12 inches high; leaves 

 linear-filiform; pedicels 3 — 6, 1 — 2 inches long; perianth dark 

 blue, 6 — 9 lines long: segments rotate, broadly oblong; 

 anthers sessile, 2 lines long, nearly twice the length of the 

 triangular staminodia. — Brodicea, Watson, 1. c. 



Neighborhood of San Bernardino; collected by the Parish 

 Brothers and by G. E. Vasey. 



H. Orcuttii. Scape stout, a foot or more high; leaves 

 linear, flat or conduplicate, not terete; pedicels 5 — 15, an 

 inch or two long; perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, twice 

 the length of the short tube; free portion of the filaments 

 about two lines long, the linear anthers nearly as long; 

 staminodia wanting (?). 



San Diego county, near the city of that name, and also 

 thirty miles to the northward. — C. R. Orcutt, 1884. 



The comparatively short tube of the perianth and the 

 elongation of the filaments are peculiarities of this species 

 quite as remarkable as the absence of staminodia; although 

 I do not speak positively on the last named point. I have 

 seen only dried specimens, and shall not be surprised if an 

 examination of the living flower brings to light some trace, 

 at least, of staminodia. 



TRITELEIA, Dougl. Hook. Lindl. 



Tube of the perianth from narrowly turbinate to open 

 campanulate, not inflated, angular, or saccate, longer or 

 shorter than the segments. Stamens 6, usually in two rows; 

 filaments slender, from almost whoOy adnate, to nearly free, 

 the free portion mostly without wing-like appendages, 

 coalescent with the upper part of the perianth-tube, but 

 usually reappearing strongly at base of the same, in the form 



