292 PITTONIA. 
smooth and shining, 4 line long, ovate-lanceolate, the groove 
closed, divaricate at the very base. 
Plant with the habit, aspect and persistent open calyx of 
the Pterygium section, but with the nutlets of C. leiocarpa. 
29. CUSCUTA PATENS, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 35. 
24. LYCIUM BREVIPES, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 40. 
25. TRITELEIA (?) Patmert ( Wats.) — Brodiwa Palmeri, 
Proc. Am. Acad. xxiv. 78. Corm none: roots slender-fibrous 
from a very short or obsolete rhizome: leaves linear, sheath- 
ing the base of the scape and bearing bulblets in their axils : 
scape naked, with a terminal umbel subtended by scarious 
spathaceous bracts: perianth regular, articulated with the 
pedicel: the segments connate below into a turbinate tube : 
stamens 6, equal, all alike antheriferous; filaments filiform, 
coherent with the tube of the perianth, free and distinct 
above it: anthers linear, basifixed: ovary stipitate, 3-celled ; 
style slender, persistent : capsule obovate-tri juet , enclosed 
in the violet marcescent perianth, about 12-seeded. 
With the exception of the basifixed anthers and a short 
coroniform appendage of the perianth-tube, both the inflo- 
rescence and the individual flower of this curious plant are 
almost precisely those of the common Californian Triteleia 
laxa. At the same time the vegetative characters are so 
different that the placing of the species as congenerie with 
either Brodica or Triteleia seems a violation of the very first 
principles which have hitherto governed men in the classifi- 
cation of liliaceous plants. Corm-bearing and merely fibrous- 
rooted species nowhere go together in one genus. Such 
differences are more than generic,—even subordinal or tribal, 
according to the received opinions of the best botanists. 
Nevertheless, one can not dispute the real and close affinity 
between this odd plant of the Peninsula, and the familiar 
corm-bearing Alliaceze of California. 
