LILIACEAE. 79 



12 mm. broad, greenish-white; outer segments oblong-linear, the 

 inner oblong; filaments stout, subulate, little compressed; anthers 

 1 mm. long, lurid purple. 



Frequent in dry stony places in the plains and foothills. April- 

 May. 



5. BLOOMERIA Kell. Golden Stars. 



Scape from a fibrous coated corm, with linear carlnate 

 basal leaves and many yellow flowers in a terminal 

 umbel, subtended by membranous bracts. Pedicels 

 jointed at the summit. Perianth persistent, of 6 nearly 

 equal distinct linear-oblong somewhat spreading seg- 

 ments. Stamens 6, inserted on the base of the segments 

 and a little shorter; filaments filiform with a somewhat 

 cup-shaped winged and often bicuspidate appendage 

 surrounding the base; anthers oblong, attached near the 

 base but versatile. Ovules several in each cell; style 

 filiform-clavate, persistent and splitting with the capsule. 

 Capsule subglobose, membranous, obtusely 3-lobed, 

 loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds subovoid, angular and 

 wrinkled, black. 



1. B. crocea (Torr.) Coville, Bulb about 15 cm. in diameter, 

 becoming densely covered with brownish fibres; scape scabrous, 

 2-5 dm. high; leaf solitary, equaling or exceeding the scape, 6-12 

 mm. broad; bracts narrowly lanceolate; pedicels numerous, 3-6 cm. 

 long; perianth nearly rotate in bloom; segments 8-12 mm. long; 

 appendages about 2 mm. long, bicuspidate, minutely papillose. 



Frequent in the foothills and on the plains. April-June. 



6. DICHELOSTEMMA Kunth. Wild Hyacinth. 



Scape tortuous or twining from a depressed fibrous 

 coated corm. Leaves usually 2, fleshy, linear. Umbel 

 subtended by 3 or more thin spathaceous bracts. Peri- 

 anth tube thin, more or less inflated and angular or sac- 

 cate, about equaled by the segments. Stamens 6, the 

 inner with a free lanceolate appendage on each side, 

 sterile in some species, the outer ones naked; anthers 

 basifixed. Ovules 3-8 in each cell; style persistent, 

 with short divergent stigmas. Capsule ovate to oblong, 

 more or less attenuate above. Seeds angled, black. 



1. D. capitata (Benth.) Wood. Scape 1.5-5 dm. high, very 

 tortuous, not rarely twining; leaves about equaling the scape, cari- 

 nate; bracts purple, darker than the flowers; flowers several, capitate, 

 clustered on short pedicels 12 mm. long or less; perianth tube funnel- 

 form, shorter than the segments; appendages connivent, forming a 

 corona. {Brodiaes capitata Benth.) 



Common on the plains and foothills. March-May. 



