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becoming bract-like: flowers large, widely scattered along the spicate 
racemes, half nodding upon short glandular pubescent peduncles, 
subtended by leaf-like bracts: the 5 distinct sepals glandular pubes- 
cent, 5™™ long, 1.5™™ wide at base, acuminate: corolla bluish, 2°™ 
long, strongly bilabiate, saccate at base, with gibbose throat; lower 
lip obscurely 3-lobed, the middle lobe longer and prominently con- 
duplicate; upper lip ascending, shorter, and broadly bilobed: fertile 
stamens 4, equally inserted upon the tube near thé base, longer pair 
1.5°™ long, shorter pair 2™™ less, jointed and papillate at base; 
filaments winged, downwardly recurved, glabrous or the longer ones 
glandular above the middle; fifth stamen represented by an oblong 
membranous pouch on the lower portion of the corolla tube; anthers 
2-celled, round or reniform, cells united at apex: ovary soft pubes- 
cent and finely glandular; style usually straight, thick, about equal- 
a the stamens, sparsely glandular toward the base. 
specimen collected by Miss Laura M. Lathrop at Hernandez, San Ben- 
ito ce California, June 1903. 
Its habit and pubescence is that of C. Greenei Gray, but the leaves and flowers 
are different. 
Fritillaria succulenta, n. sp.—Stems glabrous, erect, simple, 2 to 
3°" high, from a bulb of fleshy scales: basal leaves ascending, 5 to 
10°™ long, 2 to 3°™ wide, in pairs or in whorls of three, elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse, succulent and covered with a bloom; cauline ones few, erect, © 
alternate or the lower in pairs, lanceolate, also fleshy and glaucous: 
flowers solitary or on the larger plants in racemes of three, nodding; 
peduncle subtended by a leaf-like bract, glabrous, 1 to 2°™ long: 
perianth campanulate, 2 to 3°™ long, wider than that when spreading; 
the 6 segments 2 to 3°™ long, obtuse, oblanceolate to obovate, glab- 
rous beneath, purple, entire, margins at apex yellowish, numerously 
striate with darker purple and the upper surface pulverulent or 
obscurely crested: stamens 6, inserted upon the base of the segments, 
included; anthers 3 to 4™™ long, elliptic-oblong, versatile, extrorse; 
filaments 8™™ long, glabrous, more or less expanded toward the 
base: style 1°™ long, glabrous, cleft into three segments half way 
down, the recurved segments subcompressed and bearing terminal 
stigmas; ovary smooth, truncate at apex. 
Type specimen collected in April 1903 by Miss Laura M. Lathrop, at Her- 
nandez, San Benito County, California. 
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