EOSE MEXICAN' AXJ) CENTKAL AMERICA:^^ PLANTS. 113 



lonoxalis jacquiniana (H. H. K.) Rose. 



OxaliS jacqylnUihn 11. B. K. >.'ov. Gen.^ct Sj). 5: 235. 1821. 

 Type locality: **rroi>L' Rl'uI del Monte. ^' 



lonoxalis jaliscana Kosej sp. nov. Plate XXXV, Figure I^. 



Bulbs solitary, globular; scales closely mauy-nerved; petioles scarcely half as long 

 as the i^eduncles, glabrous; leaflets 5 to 8, broadly cuneate, 6 to 12 mm. broad above, 

 deeply 2-notched or slightly lobe<l, the lobes broad and ol)tnse; flowers 5 to 8; pedi- 

 cels slender, 10 t(S 12 mm. long; sepals 5 nun. long, oblong, actife, glabrous; corolla 

 pui'plish, 15 mm. ]i.>ng; styles (in specin^iens seen) all very short and glabrous; cap- 

 sule oblong, about twice as long as the sepals, glabrous. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 396712, collected by t'. G. Pringle near Gua- 



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dalajara, JaliscOj duly 12, 1902 (no. 8(>46), also collected near the same locality by 

 iJr. E. Palmer in 1896 (no. 68). The latter plant was referred by Dr. S. Watson to 

 O.ctdis decaphylla^ from which it is readily distinguished by its bulb scales, leaflets, etc. 



ExPLAXATiox OF rLATi-: XXXV, Fni. 3.— Fig. a, pluiit; b, sepal; c and d, stamens; e, ovary;/ 

 fruit. Fig- a, natural .size; b to/, Hcale 2. 



lonoxalis latifolia (fl, B. K.) Kose. 



OxalU latifoUa IL B. K, Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5:2:57. pL 4^7. 1823. 



This species as heretofore understood has had a wide ran^^e extending, according to 

 some authoritif^Sj frnm the southern United States through Mexico and Central 

 America to South America, and from Campe(^he on the coast to higli upon Mount 



Orizaba. 



The only specimens I have seen which at all seem to answer Humboldt's illustra- 

 tion are those collected. by Doctor (hunner (no. 5S5) and by Doctor Schott (nos. 490 

 and 918), in both cases in Yucatan, therefore from near the tyi>e locality. 



As I understand this species it is characterized by broadly cuneute leaflets which 

 are rather strongly nerved, small flowers, small, broad, obtuse sepalSj hairy stamens, 

 and a stipitate ovary. 



lonoxalis lasiandra (Zucc.) ]\0sc. 



OxaUskisiaiidra TiUCC. Abb. Akad. 3Iuench. 2: liOS. 1834. 



A condensed description is as follows: Leaflets 7 to 9, 7,5 cm. long, 2.5 cm. broad, 

 rounded at apex; sei)als with glandular hairs outside; petals large, cnmsun; fila- 

 ments glandular-pubescent This species is now grown in the open grounds of the 

 Washington Botanical Garden, having come from Edinburgh, the original source of 

 the Graham material. Mr. George Oliver tells me that it is very comnntn in the 

 grounds of the Botanical Garden of Edinburgh, sometimes becoming a weed. 



< )xaUs lasiandra Zucc. and 0. lasiandra Graham have been heretofore considered 

 distinct species, Graham's name being the one in general use. After a careful com- 

 parison of the original descriptions I am led to believe tln*t the Tiame as used by 

 botli authorities refers to the same species. Zuccarini described his plant about 

 18;]4 (?), having grown it from l)nlbs sent hy Karwiii^ki from I\h xicotothe botanical 

 garden at Munich. The spt;cies being such an attractive one would naturally be dis- 

 tributed. In 1840 Graham received specimens from T^erlin under the manuscript name 

 of O. lasiandra^ wln<;h name he used in 1842 when he figured and described it in the 

 Botanical Magazine. Zuccarini should therefore be cited as the authority for this name. 



The Kew Index reference of Graham's plant to 0. Jlonhanda Lehm., a Brazil ii 

 species, must be incorrect. 



lonoxalis lunulata (Zucc.) Hose. 



Oxalls lunulala Zucc. Abb. .^lath. Phys. Classe 1:200. 1830. 



In the Bernhardi Herbarium, ]io\v in the Missouri Botanical Garden, is what 

 a])i>ears to be a part of the type of 0. huiulula. It seems to amswer that species in 

 every i>articular, (4mracter of bulb scales, size, number, and shape of leaflets, num- 

 ber and color of flowers, etc. The label gives tlie locality ''Mexico." 



