256 Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 
‘section 2 to 3 mm wide, staminate spikelets sessile or nearly so, 3 to 
4 mm long, outer glume coriaceous, oblong, rounded at apex, scabrous, 
ciliate on marginal keels, rather minutely striate with about ten nerves. 
The type specimen was collected by H. von Tuerckheim at Cubil- 
quitz, Dept. Alta Verapez, Guatemala, alt. 350 m, Jan. 1902, no. 8333. 
The only other specimen I have seen was collected by C. Thieme at 
San Pedro Sula, Dept. Santa Barbara, Honduras, alt. 500 m, March 
1887, no. 5595B. Both specimens are in the National Herbarinm (Herb. 
John Donnell Smith). 
The species is well distinguished from the other species with sessile 
staminate spikelets by its broad pubescent leaves. 
142. Tripsacum dactyloides L. subspec. hispidum Hitchcock, ]. c., p. 295. 
Laminae supra hispidae; vaginae hispidae vel glabrescentes. 
The staminate flowers are less chartaceous than is usual in T. dacty- 
loides. 
Mexico and southward. San Luis Potosi, rocky hills, Las Canoas, 
Pringle 3811 (type); Jalisco, Rio Blanco, Palmer 509: City of Mexico, 
Holway 8; Lower California, El Taste, Brandegee. Nov. 1, 1902; 
Trinidad, Botanical Garden Herbarium 8303: Central Paraguay, 
Morong 675. 
This form connects T. dactyloides with T. lanceolatum. In some 
specimens the upper spikelet of the staminate pair is somewhat pedicelled. 
T. dactyloides and possibly some of the other species may occur widely 
distributed in South America. Information on this point is desired. 
143. Eremurus chinensis Olga A. Fedtschenko in Journ. Bot. Sect. Bot. 
Soc. Imp. Nat. St. Pétersbourg, 1907, p. 12. 
Fibrae radicales carnosae, fusiformi-incrassatae, circ. 20 cm longae, 
1 em in diametro. Collum vaginarum reliquiis fibrosis satis dense ob- 
teetum. Folia omnia basilaria, circ, 20, carinata, tenuia, flaccida, glabra, 
margine laevia, 30—40 em longa, anguste linearia (2,5—10,5 mm lata), a 
basi versus tertiam partem longitudinis dilatata, ad mediam longitudinem 
angustiora, versus apicem filiformia. Scapus 5 mm in diametro, racemo 
incluso folia duplo superans, 65—75 cm altus. Racemus fructifer usque 
40 em longus, 6,5 em in diametro, laxiusculus, 60—70-florus. Bracteae 
glabrae, filiformes, basin versus dilatatae, pedicellis triplo breviores. Pedi- 
celli 24—27 mm longi, horizontaliter patentes, apicem versus incurvati. 
sub apice articulati. Flores magnitudine et fabrica eis E. Olgae per- 
similes, sed perigonii segmenta angustiora. Stamina tenuia filiformia, 
basin versus paulo latiora, linearifiliformia. Capsulae globosae, pisi magni- 
tudinae. Semina brunnea, triquetra, anguste alata. 
Legit G. N. Potanin! 1885 in prov. Kansu, Pratt 1891 et Po 
tanin! 1893 in prov. Szechuan Chinae occidentalis. 
