132 Rhodora [AUGUST 
5068 (hb. Gray). Bnmazir: near Rio de Janeiro, from the herbarium 
of the U. S. South Pacific Exploring Expedition under the command 
of Capt. Wilkes, U. S. N. 1838-42 (hb. Gray). GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: 
common in open woodlands at 183 m. (600 ft.), Albemarle, Alban 
Stewart, no. 1135 (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard., hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. Gray). 
Paracuay: Dr. E. Hassler, no. 5562 (hb. Gray). 
This material was mostly distributed as H. decumbens. 
3a. Var. MAJOR Seubert. Plants coarser than the above; seeds 
similar.—Seubert in Mart. Fl. Brasil. iii. pt. i. 51, t. 7, f. 1(1847). 
H. racemosa Donnell Smith, Bot. Gaz. xiv. 30: (1889).—Locally 
throughout the range of the above. "The following are referred here. 
Mexico: Orizaba, Botteri, no. 80 (hb. Gray), no. 455 (hb. Gray), 
463 (hb. Gray); Mt. Orizaba, Henry E. Seaton (hb. Gray). SAN Luts 
Porosr: Alvarez, Dr. Edward Palmer, no. 581 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 
Vera Cruz: near Jalapa, J. N. Hose & Walter Hough, no. 4326 
(hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). Jamaica: Tyre, near Troy, Wm. Harris, 
no. 9401 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). GvarEMALA: Dept. Alta Verapaz, 
H. von Tuerckheim, no. 3842 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Coban, Dept. 
Alta Verapaz, Tuerckheim, no. 33 (hb. Gray). CoLomMBIA: Santa 
Marta, Herbert H. Smith, no. 2266 (hb. Gray). VENEZUELA: A. 
Fendler, no. 1565 (hb. Gray, hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). TRINIDAD: 
from herb. of Otto Kuntze, no. 959 (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); Lookout 
Hill, W. E. Broadway (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). BRAZIL: near Rio de 
Janeiro, hb. of the U. S. South Pacific Exploring Expedition under 
the command of Capt. Wilkes, U. S. N. (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 
PARAGUAY: Fiebrig, no. 891 (hb. Gray). 
This material was distributed simply under the generic name or, 
if further determined, as H. decumbens or as Curculigo scorzonerae- 
folia (Lam.) Baker. 
4. H. RIGIDA Chapman. Corm subcylindric to ellipsoid, 0.6-1.5 
cm. thick, covered with the stiff bristly bases of the old sheaths or 
rarely with membranous, slightly disintegrating leaf bases: leaves 
rather rigid, linear, 1-4 mm. broad, 0.7-4 dm: long; peduncles glab- 
rate, 0.3-3 dm. long, 1-3-flowered; ovary and capsule pilose; perianth- . 
segments 7-12 mm. long, lanceolate to oblong, acutish, densely 
pubescent without; capsule narrowly obovoid, 1-9 mm. long; seeds 
1 mm. in diameter, black, opaque or slightly lustrous, covered with 
short, rounded, approximate pebbling.—Fl. So. U. S. ed. 2. Suppl. 
2: 696 (1892).—Low pine barrens, North Carolina to Florida and 
Texas. The following are referred here. LOCALITY UNKNOWN: one 
plant with seeds (hb. Gray); Chapman, no. 4573, without seeds 
(hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). Fromm: F. Rugel, 1842-1849, ex herb. 
Mus. Brit., without seeds (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.); Apalachicola, Chap- 
man, with seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.), Chapman, ex herb. Chas. 
Mohr (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). ALABAMA: Mobile, Chas. Mohr, 
