50 William Trelease. 
lower branchlets scarcely one-third as long. Fruit nearly orbicular, about 
5 mm in diameter. Seed? — North-central Mexico. On the margin 
of the range of Dasylirion cedrosanum. — Specimens examined: Coa- 
huila. Battlefield of Buena Vista (Wislizenus, 308, 1847, — the type). 
High dry lands near Saltillo (Gregg, 81, 1847). 
5. Nolina Palmeri var. Brandegeei Trelease, 1l. c., p. 420. — Nolina 
sp. Brandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad., 2, II, 209; 1889. — ?N. Palmeri Bran- 
degee, Zoe., I, 306. — Arborescent. Trunk about 5 m high, at length 
few-branehed above. Leaves 7—8 cm wide, rather glossy, denticulate- 
scabrous. Inflorescence with divisions 15 cm long and lower branchlets 
about one-third as long. — Lower California. — Specimens examined: 
Lower California. San Julio (Brandegee, Apr. 11, 1890, — the 
type) Northern Lower California (Orcutt, July 3, 1885). 
6. Nolina durangensis Trelease, l. c., p. 421. — Leaves very thin, 
7—11 or even 20 mm wide, irregularly serrulate-scabrous. Inflorescence 
with broad divisions at length 15—20 cm long and chiefly basal branch- 
lets 10—12 em long. Fruit usually considerably shorther than the rather 
slender pedicels, more or less depressed, small, 5—6 X 6— 7 mm. Seed 
3 mm in diameter. — Pl. 10, — Northwestern Mexico. In the region 
of Dasylirion durangense and simplex. — Specimens examined: Durango. 
Vieinity of Durango (Palmer, 249, 1896, — the type; Ochoterena, 
1911; Patoni, 1911). Tepehuanes (Palmer, 329, 1906). Chihuahua. 
Southwestern Chihuahua (?Endlich, 1162a, 1162b, 1906). 
7. Nolina rigida Trelease, l. c., p. 422. — Anatis rigida Brongniart, 
Ann. Se. Nat, Bot.. II, XIV, 320; 1840. — Leaves 4—5 mm, scarcely 
10 em long, ciliate-scabrous. Inflorescence much surpassing the leaves, 
sessile, with broad divisions about 10 em long and rather few branch- 
lets seareely half as long. Fruit about equaling the slender pedicels, 
moderate, about 6 mm in diameter. Seed 2 mm in diameter. — Pl. 17. 
— Mexico? Known only from the unpublished figures of Sese and 
Mociño and Node-véran, which M. de Candolle has placed in my hands 
for study, and of which he has furnished for publication an excellent 
photographie copy. 
8. Nolina Beldingi var. deserticola Trelease, l. c., p. 424. -— Sub- 
acaulescent with leaves scarcely 50 cm long, otherwise resembling the 
type. — Lower California. In the desert association of N. Palmeri 
and N. Bigelovii, — Specimens examined: Lower California. Yubay 
(Brandegee, 1889, — the type). 
9. Calibanus Hookerii Trelease, l. c., p. 426. — Dasylirium Hart- 
wegianum Hooker, Bot. Mag., HI, XV, pl. 5099; 1859. — D. Hookerii Le- 
maire, Ill. Hort. VI, misc., p. 24; 1859. — D. caespitosum Scheidweiler, 
Wochenschr. Verein Befórd, Gartenbau., IV, 286; 1861. — D. Hookeri 
Lemaire, Ill. Hort., XII, mise, p. 52; 1865. — SD. flexile Koch, Ind. Sem. 
Berol, 1867, Append., I, 5. — Beaucarnea Hookeri Baker, Journ. Bot., X, 
327; 1872. — Calibanus caespitosus Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., X, 90, 
f. 4, pl. 24—25; 1906. — Shortly caulescent. Trunk depressed globose. 
