By George Bentiiam, Esq. 



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umbel of two or three pendulous flowers issuing from the base of 

 a green leaf-like bract, longer than the peduncle. The flowers 

 are of a bright yellow, the sepals of a greenish hue and ovate 

 lanceolate form ; the petals somewhat longer, very much broader, 

 with a very deep nectariferous pit, of a rich yellow colour placed 

 a little below the centre. The margins of this pit are clothed with 

 long and thick hairs, the petal below it is entirely smooth, above 

 it slightly covered with scattered hairs, and bordered with a beauti- 

 ful but delicate fringe. 



This plant produces seeds in great abundance, and will probably 

 become as common as a Fritillary. 



Cyclobothra alba. (Plate 14, fig. 3.) 



Calochortus albus, Dougl. MSS. 

 C. umbella 2-3-flora, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus, floribus oblongis inflatis, petalis 

 ovatis obtusissimis margine nudiusculis fovea leviter impressa sepalis ovato-lance- 

 olatis duplo longioribus. 



This species resembles very much the preceding one, but the 

 flowers are larger, the petals both longer and broader, of a whitish 

 colour, marked towards the centre with a shallow pit, covered with 

 inflected hairs, glabrous below it, above it slightly covered with scat- 

 tered hairs, and almost naked at the border, where the few hairs 

 that straggle so far are turned inwards, and by no means form a 

 fringe as is the case in C. pulchella. 



Triteleia laxa. (Plate 15, fig. 2.) 



T. foliis linearibus glaucis scapo longioribus, inyolucro triphyllo patente membrana- 

 ceo, umbella laxa 7-8 flora. 



A very handsome plant, the scape of which is from a foot to 

 eighteen inches high. Its flowers are about the size of those of 

 Brodiaea grandiflora and of the same deep blue colour. They grow 

 in a lax umbej, but notwithstanding the length of their stalks stand 



