140 Rhodora [AvcvsT 
capsulaque dense pilosis; segmentis perianthii pilosis ellipticis 5-13 
mm. longis; seminibus 0.8-0.9 mm. diametro brunneis, testa aculeis 
elongatis munita, funiculo foramineque atris a naevo lucido atro 
spathulato circumscriptis. 
Corm globose to subeylindric, 0.8-1.3 cm. thick, covered with 
membranous and often fibrillous brown sheaths; leaves linear- 
lanceolate, coarse in texture and rather densely pilose (when young 
villous on the lower surface) 1.2-4.8 mm. broad, up to 3.5 dm. long; 
peduncles coarsely filiform, canaliculate, pilose, 0.7-1.2 dm. long, 
I-few-flowered; ovary and capsule densely pilose; perianth with 
hairy elliptic segments 3-7.5 mm. long; capsule subeylindric to 
ellipsoidal, 5-13 mm. long; seeds 0.8-0.9 mm. in diameter, brown, 
the outer coat covered with sharp, prolonged murications; the black 
beak and hilum set in a lustrous, black, pyriform spot.—At high 
altitudes in Central Mexico. The following are. referred here. 
SAN Luts Porosi: altitude 1830-2440 m. (6000-8000 feet), in region 
of San Luis Potosi, Parry & Palmer, no. 871, with seeds (hb. Gray, 
TYPE, hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. Phil. Acad., hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.); 
low ground about San Luis Potosi, Schaffner, no. 545, with seeds 
_ (hb. Gray). 
This material was distributed as H. decumbens L. but it differs 
from that species in having a fibrous base and rigid, coarsely veined, 
densely pilose leaves as well as in having very different seeds. 
10. H. Wrightii (Baker), n. comb. Corm subglobose, 6-12 mm. 
thick, covered with membranous and somewhat fibrillous brown 
sheaths; leaves linear, canaliculate or involute, 0.4-3 mm. broad, up 
to 2.6 dm. long; peduncles filiform, pilose, 0.4-1.2 dm. long, 1-2- 
flowered; ovary and capsule densely pilose; perianth with lanceolate 
to narrowly elliptic, acutish segments, 0.4-8.1 cm. long; capsule 
subglobose or ellipsoidal, 4-6 mm. long; seeds 0.8-1.1 mm. in diameter, 
black, lustrous, the outer coat covered with flattened, truncated 
and crudely carved pebbling.—H. juncea, var. Wrightii Baker, 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 106 (1878).—Florida Keys, Bahama 
Islands and the West Indies. 'The following are referred here. 
Fromm Keys: Pinelands, Big Pine Key, J. K. & G. K. Small, no. 
5028, with seeds (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). BAHAMA ISLANDS: moist, 
loamy clay and honeycomb limestone, pine region, about five miles 
southwest of Nassau, A. E. Wight, no. 271, without seeds (hb. 
Gray); New Providence, grassy places, race course, N. L. Britton & 
L. J. K. Brace, no. 286, with seeds (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Cuna: 
C. Wright, no. 3745 (distributed as H. juncea, var. W rightii, with 
seeds, hb. Gray, hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., without seeds hb. N. Y. Bot. 
Gard.); near Monte Verde in eastern Cuba, C. Wright, January-July, 
1859 (hb. Gray); province of Pinar del Rio between Pinar del Rio 
and Coloma, N. L. Britton, E. G. Britton & J. F. Cowell, no. 10062, 
without seeds (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Iste or Pines: A. A. Taylor, 
