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terminates siet Folia radicalia 2 — 3 pollices longa, vix 

 ultra lineara dimidiam lata , passim ionge pilosa. Spatha fo- 

 liacea erecta^ antliela quadruple brevior. Antbela circiter 



sesqmpollicaris, ramis capillaribus snbflexuoso-patentibus, post 

 antbesin snbreflexis. Flo res solitarii suifulti bract eis 2 — 5 

 disticbe imbricatis oratis cuspidatis periantbium dimidium ©b- 

 tegentibus eique concoloribus , i. e« dorso ex roseo porpureis 

 mtentibns, ad marginem diapbanis, post antbesin deniqne sub- 

 fnscis* Antfcerae in panels speciininnlis a me risis filamento 

 eubbreviores. Stigmata subsessilia, in genere breyissima. 

 Capsulac vnlvulae fere aeqne tenues et pellncidae qnam pe- 

 riantbium. Semina eliiptica utrinque obtusa, papilla vertical* 

 tix conspicua. 



Speciem Bnchianam esse, convenientibus et florum co- 

 lore, et patria, et utriusque collector^ anctoritate, non dubi- 

 tan. Sed cf. Luzula elegans. 



Imzula gigantea Besr. 

 L, foliis ciliatis nudisve» raginis ore barbatis, antbela 

 terminaU axillaribusqne amplissimis, pedunculis capillaribus 

 nutantibus, bracteis fimbriatis, floribns solitariis, periantfci 1 

 foliolis laneeolatis acnminato-snbnlatis subaequalibus, stamiw- 

 bns dimidii periantbii longitndine, antberis filamento breviori- 

 bus, capsnla (immatora) oborata purpureo- punctata* 



*-• gigantea Besr. no* 7, H. B. Kth. nov. gen.I* p.23& 

 et VII* tab, 697, Lakarp. no. 4. 



7L. paniculate Dear. no. 9. t. 5. f. 4. 



Habitat in hunudis nobilissimi montis Qnindin, altit. 

 1050—1630 bexapod, in Nova Granata (Hnmb. et BonpU> 

 et in regni Mexicani Pic d'Orizaba , alth. 2080 fcexapod. (G»' 

 leotti! 57*4.). 



