* 

 Brodicea. LI LI ACE M. 153 



Dichelostemma and Seubertia, Kunth, Enum. iv. 469 & 475. Themis, Salisb. Gen. 

 85. Milla, Baker, 1. c. in part, not Cav. 



A genus peculiar to California and the adjacent region, not reaching the southern boundary. 

 Though polymorphous in its characters, yet it is on the whole distinctly marked, and clearly sepa- 

 rated from the Mexican genus Milla, to which many of the species are referred by Mr. Baker. 

 The latter is distinguished by its salverform perianth with 3-nerved segments, its inarticulate 

 pedicels, sessile ovary, and southern habitat. The single Mexican species, M. biflora, Cav., is 

 also found in New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. 



* Stamens in one row on the throat / anthers basifixed : capsule subsessile : 

 perianth purple, mostly broadly fannelform, the tube shorter than the limb. 



EUBRODLEA. 



H- Stamens 3, opposite to the inner segments, the outer stamens being reduced to 

 staminodia : segments 2 or 3 times longer than the tube. 



++ Pedicels more or less elongated. 



1. B. grandiflora, Smith. Leaves a line broad, thick and somewhat terete, 

 about equalling the smooth scape, which is 4 to 10 inches high : pedicels 3 to 10 

 (or rarely solitary), unequal, | to 2 (or even 3 or 4) inches long : perianth varying 

 from purple to light rose-color, 10 to 20 lines long, the linear-oblong obtuse or acutish 

 segments strongly 1-nerved : filaments rather slender, 1| lines long or more, the 

 anthers twice longer ; staminodia ligulate, entire, obtuse, whitish, about equalling 

 the anthers : capsule sessile, narrowed at base, oblong, and attenuate into the stout 

 rigid style ; cells 6 - 8-seeded : seeds a line long. Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 2 ; Lindl. 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1183; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2877; Baker, 1. c. 376, in part. 



Var. (?) major, Benth. Taller and stouter, a foot or two high; scapes often 

 scabrous ; leaves 1 to 3 lines broad and flattened : pedicels 6 to 20, mostly 1 to 4 

 inches long : perianth often 1 \ inches long or more, with long narrow segments and 

 staminodia ; anthers and filaments twice longer : capsules sometimes strictly sessile 

 with a broad base and the seeds 2 lines long. PI. Hartw. 339 ; Baker, 1. c. B. 

 Californica, Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. iv. 84, & fig. 



From S. California (on the Mohave River, Palmer) to the British Boundary ; in the Sierra 

 Nevada and foothills. The brown-coated conns are from half an inch to nearly an inch in diame- 

 ter. The broader leaved variety, with broader capsule and larger seeds, may prove distinct. 



2. B. minor, Watson. Scape very slender, 3 to 6 inches high, smooth, bearing an 

 umbel of 2 to 6 rays an inch or two long : perianth 7 to 14 lines long : anthers ob- 

 long, 2 lines long, shorter than the broadly ligulate usually emarginate staminodia : 

 capsule obovate, sessile or nearly so, 3 lines long, acute, the cells 3-seeded : seeds a 

 line long. Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 236. B. grandiflora, var. minor, Benth. PI. 

 Hartw. 340. B. grandiflora, Baker, 1. c., in part. 



In various parts of California (Hartweg, Wallace, Coulter) and Oregon, Kdlogrj & Ilarford. 



3. B. terrestris, Kell. Leaves nearly terete : scape very short, scarcely rising 

 above the surface of the ground : pedicels 2 to 10, very slender, 3 or 4 inches long : 

 perianth 8 to 10 lines long : anthers oblong, sagittate, 1| lines long, slightly longer 

 than the filaments, shorter than the yellowish emarginate staminodia : capsule \ 

 inch long, including the short stout style, sessile, acute at base ; cells 6 -8-seeded : 

 seeds nearly a line long. Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 6. B. grandiflora, var. macropnda, 

 Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 149. B. Torreyi, Wood, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1868, 172. 



A very common species about San Francisco and through Central California, from Mendocino 

 County (sandy plains near Fort Bragg, Bolander) to Monterey. 



++ -H- Flowers subcapitate, on short pedicels. 



4. B. congesta, Smith. Corm often deep-seated : scapes 2 to 4 feet high, 

 smooth ; leaves 2 to 6 lines broad, carinate, glaucous : umbel often more or less pro- 

 duced into a short dense raceme : pedicels 6 to many, 1 to 3 lines long : perianth 8 



