1923] Brackett,—American Species of Hypoxis 129 
GEORGIA: rich damp woods, Dublin, Laurens County, R. M. Harper, 
no. 1365 (hb. Gray, hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). 
Fromm: Apalachicola, with seeds, Chapman (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); 
shore of St. John's River at Tocoi, growing in water, A. H. Curtiss, 
no. 2837*, with seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.) 
distributed as H. leptocarpa Engelmann; swamps near Jacksonville, 
A. H. Curtiss, no. 4727, with seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. N. Y. 
Bot. Gard.); river banks, Apalachicola, Chapman, no. 4015, with seeds 
(hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.), distributed as H. decumbens L.; Palmetto, 
S. M. Tracy, no. 6621 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. Mo. Bot. Gard., 
hb. Gray). Louisiana: Lake Charles, Calcasien Parish, E. J. Palmer, 
no. 8519 (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). Texas: sandy soil, near water 
courses, F. Lindheimer, no. 188 (hb. Gray). 
3. H. DECUMBENS L. Corm cylindric to ellipsoid, 0.7-2 cm. 
thick; the membranaceous sheaths not fibrillous: leaves flaccid, 
often falcate, linear to lanceolate, 2-12 mm. broad, 1-4 dm. long, 
sparsely pilose to glabrate; peduncles filiform, loosely ascending or 
recurving, 0.2-2 dm. long, villous above, 1-4-flowered; perianth- 
segments lanceolate, acute, 4-10 mm. long; mature pedicels 1-20 
mm. long, mostly equalled by the bracts; capsule club-shaped, 
cylindric or slenderly ellipsoid, usually densely pilose, 0.6-1.7 cm. 
long; seeds 0.8-1.2 mm. in diameter, black, dull or but slightly 
lustrous, covered with low, rounded scarcely confluent pebbling.— 
Pl. Jam. Pugill. 11 (1759) € Syst. ed. 10, 986 (1759). H. caricifolia 
Salisb. Prodr. 248 (1796). H. gracilis Lehm. ex Schultes f. Syst. 
vii. 764 (1830). H. decumbens, var. mexicana (Schultes f.) Jennings, 
Ann. Carnegie Mus. xi. 97 (1917).—In open woods and pastures in 
the Antilles, tropical Mexico and South America. Since the herbarium 
material is so abundant for this species only one or two typical 
plants having seeds, and their duplicates, from each locality are 
cited here. Cuba: near Monte Verde, C. Wright, no. 1515 (hb. 
Gray, hb. Mo. Bot. Gard., hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Jamaica: Cin- 
chona, Willard N. Clute, no. 208 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. Mo. Bot. 
Gard., hb. Phil. Acad., hb. Gray.). Harri: on banks, Petit Borgne 
to Mt. Casse, George V. Nash, no. 488 (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); on 
banks, Mt. Maleuvre to Mt. Piment, Geo. V. Nash & Norman Taylor 
no. 1183 (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). San DominGo: Prov. of Vega, 
Miguel Fuertes, no. 1704 (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Porro Rico: in 
pineapple plantations near Mayaguez, Holm, no. 67 (hb. Mo. Bot. 
Gard., hb. Gray). Tomrora: hillside, 325 m. alt., N. L. Britton & 
J. A. Shafer, no. 779 (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard., hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 
ANTIGUA: J. N. Rose, Wm. R. Fitch & Paul G. Russell, no. 3346 
(hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Dominica: Francis 
E. Lloyd, no. 579 (hb..N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Martinique: Père Duss, 
no. 2011 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Sr. Vincents: 
H. H. Smith, G. W. Smith, & Comn. F. D. Godman, no. 14 (hb. N. Y. 
Bot. Gard.). ToBaco: Mason Hall near the river, W. E. Broadway, 
