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CYCLOBOTHRA. Succet. 



Flores nutantes ventricosi vel campanulati. Sepala glabra, acuta. Petala majora et dissimilia, barbata, 

 infra medium fovea glabra nectarifera alte impressa extus gibbosa. Stigmata 3. Capsula triptera, coriaceo - 

 membranacea. Sernina serie simplici affixa, angulata. — Bulbi tunicati, foliis planis acuminatis. 



1. C. pulchella (Benth.); umbellis 2-3-floris, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus, floribus 

 globosis, petalis ovatis obtusis serrulato-fimbriatis fovea valde excavata extus callosa, sepalis 

 ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis quam petala vix brevioribus. Benth. Ilort. Soc. Trans. N. S. 

 I. p. 415. t. 14./. 1 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1662. 



Flowers yellow, the sepals greenish and striated with green. 



2. C. alba [Benth.); umbella 2-3-flora, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus, floribus oblongis 

 inflatis, petalis ovatis obtusissimis margine nudiusculis fovea leviter impressa sepalis ovato- 

 lanceolatis duplo longioribus. Benth. in Hort. Soc. Trans. N. S. I. p. 413. t. l^.f. 3 ; 

 Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1661.-— Calochortus albus. Dougl. 



Flowers white. Sepals of a yellowish-green. The flowers do not appear to us to be oblong, but when 

 expanded to be broadly ovate, nearly as in C. pulchella. 



3. C. paniculata (Lindl.); floribus solitariis, pedunculis bracteis subsequalibus floribus 

 oblongis ; petalis angustis obtusis subciliatis dimidia superiore calvis fovea leviter exca- 

 vata sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis duplo longioribus. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 

 1662. 



Praecedenti affinis ; caule, panicula, floribus solitariis, pedunculis bracteis longioribus, alabastris angustis 

 cseterisque satis distincta. Flores albi. Lindl. 1. c. — Of this we know nothing, unless it prove to be a mere 

 form of C. alba, with which it appears to us to agree in almost every important character, as well as in the 

 white flowers. 



Orb. LXIII. ASPHODELE/E. Juss. 



1. Allium stellatum. Fras. — Hook. Flor. Bo?: Am. II. p. 184. Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1576. 



2. A. acuminatum (Hook.); foliis linearibus brevibus paucis radicalibus, scapo humili 

 terete, umbella pluriflora patente, sepalis roseis subovalibus acuminatissimis basi gibbosis 

 interioribus minute serrulatis apicibus recurvis, staminibus conformibus perianthio duplo 

 fere brevioribus, ovario 3-lobo, stigmate brevi trifido. — Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 11. p. 184. 

 t. 196. 



Hab. Blue Mountains, Snake Country, abundant ; Mr Tolmie. 



3. A. Douglasii (Hook.); bulbo late ovato, foliis binis lanceolato-falcatis striatis basi 

 longe angusteque attenuatis radicalibus, umbella multiflora patente, sepalis (roseis) ovati 



