181 ON CULAMyDOSlVLUS. 



uU. 2000 pedes ; Biiur, 293 ! Floret Qct. Closely allied to Scilla 

 prasina, Baker in Journ. Linn. See. xiii., 248. 



Massonia tebsicolor, Bahr. — Bulhus dobosus, 7-8 lin. crassus, 

 tunicis membranaceis pallide brunncis. Folia 2, patula, rotunda, 

 {ilabra, carnoso-coriacea, lA-2 poll. Ion ira et lata, Rubobtusa. TJmbella 

 densa, heniisphairica. in axillis foliornm sessilis, 20-40-flora. Brncteae 

 exteriores oblongo-spathiilMtfe, .5-(i lin. lonpte, membranaf^ere, viridulaj 

 T«l interdum rubella?. Pedicelli \)-?, lin. longi. Perianthinm album, 

 4-5 lin. longum, segraentis 1-inceolntis flore expanse patulis, tubo 

 pvlindrico duplo brevioribus. Stamina 3 lin. lonsja, erecto-patentia, 

 filamentis erassis subulafis, antberis parvis oblongis ca^ruleis. C. B- S. 

 in argillaceis apricis fluminis Khjn ViseJi ririer, alt. 2500 pedes ; 

 MacOwan, 2178! Floret Oct. Of described species nnlv near M. 

 Huttoni, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi., 390, from vp-hicb it diflfers in 

 the shape of the leaves and its much smaller flowers. 



BuLBiNE PALLIDA, BoTccr. — Acauli", cormo li^noso obliqno cylin- 

 diico, apice baud setifero. Folin plui'a, rosulata. crecta, subtcretia, 

 glabra, 3-4 poll, longa, vix 1 lin. lata Scapus strictus, frngilis, teres, 

 gracilis, semipedalis. Kacemus laxus, 10-12-florus, oblongus, expan.<«ua 

 2 poll, longus, 1 poll, crassus, pedicellis erccto-patentibus, defloratis 

 cernuis, inferioribus 3-4 lin. longis. Bractea; deltoidea^. fimbriatae, 

 insigniter cuspidatae. l-|-3 lin. longa;. Perianthinm albidum, 3 lin. 

 loDgura, segmentis oblonsis flore expanse reflexis, nervn unico centrali 

 viridulo prseditis. Stamina perianthio duplo breviora. filamentis luteo- 

 fitupposis. Stylus declinatus, 2 lin. longus lioffraria Transkeiana 

 superior ad Tahase, ad latera montiiim, alf. 2500 pedes ; Baur, 417 ! 

 Floret Nov. Nearest B. asphodeloides, R. & S. (Jacq. Yind., t. 

 18L) 



UN CELAMYJDOSTYLUS, A NEW GENUS OF TRIDACE^ 



FROM TROPICAL AMERICA, AND ITS ALLIES. 



Bt J. G. Bakkr. 



The /nWa<»e<s of Tropical and Warm Temperate America are difficult 

 plants to deal with on account of the verv fugacious character of the 

 flowers of many of the genera. They fall into two creat groups, one 

 Suyrinchinm-Yike, with a regular iierianth. and the other 7r/.?-like, 

 with the outer and inner segments of the perianth decidedly dissimilar 

 and stigmas usually petaloid. Of the regular-flowered series Sisj/- 

 rhichmm is marked off from the rest by its fibrous roots. There are 

 three other genera with regular flowers already published, Kemasfylis 

 of Nuttall, and Gelatine and Cah/dorea of Herberf. and to these I 

 wish now to add a fourth, which I propose to call Chlanvidosfj/lus. 



All these four are closely allied to one another. They coincide 

 in their Sis;/rinchium-\\\LQ regular perianths; in their fugitive, mostly 

 blue flowers, produced one after another from a spathe of more than 

 two valves, on pedicels which when the flowers are ready to expand 

 reach up to the top of the spathe-valves ; in the entire absence of any 

 perianth-tube above the ovary; in their fragile, terete, sparingly leafv 

 stems ; in their narrow, dry, plicate leaves ; and in their opcrculate, 



