116 A. Luisier. 
In its leaves this species resembles N. parryi and N. bigelovii of the 
Far West, but it is certainly quite distinct. 
10. Nolina pumila Rose, l. c., p. 92. 
Acaulescent; leaves numerous, in some specimens erect, in others 
recurved, 20 to 30 cm long, linear, many-nerved (sometimes 15 to 
20-nerved), the apex entire but in most cases broken off, the margin 
serrulate; inflorescence a narrow panicle, 20 to 30 em long, the peduncle 
and lower branches leafy-bracted; male flowers not seen; peduncles 
slender, 6 to 7 mm long, jointed just above the base, somewhat enlarged 
upward; sepals papery, oblong, obtuse, 3 mm long; fruit dry, strongly 
3-lobed, indehiscent but the walls early falling away, leaving the naked 
seed; style short but distinct; cells 3; ovules 6; mature seeds 3, one in 
each cell, globular, 
Type speeimen U. S. National Herbarium no. 301074. 
Mexico: Collected by J. N. Rose near Santa Teresa, Tepec, 
August 10, 1897 (no. 2165); and also in southern Durango, August 16, 
1897 (no. 2340). 
XXXVI, Plantae novae Maderenses a Menezes descriptae. 
Diagnoses in lat. transtulit A. Luisier. 
1. Bystropogon punctatus L'Herit, 
«) pallidulus Menezes in Broteria, IV (1905), p. 179. 
Foliis punctatis, colore plerumque laetiore quam in var. sequenti; 
calice externe et ad faucem pilis longis albis plus minusve densis 
vestito. 
8) disjectis Menezes, 1. c., p. 179. 
Foliis punetatis aut non punctatis; calice externe hispido, fauce pilis 
brevibus vestita. 
Madeira: «) an der Ribeira de Santa Luzia. 
8) an der Levada do Ribeiro Frio, etc. 
2. Bystropogon maderensis Webb 
«) genuinus Menezes in Broteria, IV (1905), p. 181. 
Ramis et cymarum axibus hispidis aut villoso-hispidis; foliis plerum- 
que glabris aut subglabris, exceptis nervis et petiolis. 
Madeira. Häufig. 
8) valdehirsutus Menezes, loc. cit. 
Ramis, cymarum axibus et petiolis hirsutis aut villoso-hirsutis, foliis 
hirsutis aut subglabris, interdum asperulis; dentibus calycinis plerum- 
que sat profundis; pilis multo longioribus et densioribus quam in var. 
precedente. 
Madeira: Lamaceiros, etc. 
y) ambiguus Menezes, loc. cit, 
