144 Rhodora [AvGUsT 
Corm globose to subcylindric, 7-19 mm. thick, covered with brown, 
membranous sheaths and dense fibers; leaves linear, rather rigid, 
1.8-5 mm. broad, 0.6-2.5 dm. long, pilose; peduncles pilose, filiform, 
1.5-15 em. long, 1-few-flowered; ovary and capsule densely pilose, 
perianth-segments narrowly elliptic, 3-6 mm. long; capsule sub- 
cylindrie, 5-9 mm. long; seeds brown, covered by firm, conical, rather 
truncated scarcely confluent processes.— Throughout Mexico. The 
following is selected as the TYPE of this species. PUEBLA: vicinity 
of Puebla, Bro. Nicolas, no. 5203, with seeds (hb. Gray, hb. Mo. 
Bot. Gard.). "The following, although frequently without good 
seeds, are referred here. CHIHuaHua: in the Sierra Madre, near 
Colonia Garcia, C. H. T. Townsend & C. M. Barber, no. 70 (hb. N. 
Y. Bot. Gard., hb. Mo. Bot. Gard., hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. Gray). 
Vera Cruz: near Santa Fé, J. N. Rose & Robert Hay, no. 5374 (hb. 
U.S. Nat. Mus.). JaLisco: Tapalpa, Marcus E. Jones, no. 469 (hb. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). Mexico: near Tultenango, 
J. N. Rose & Robert Hay, no. 5442 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Valley of 
Mexico, Pedregal near San Angel, J. N. Rose & Walter Hough, no. 
4510 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). MonkELos: Cuernavaca, Chas. C. Deam, 
no. 44 (hb. Gray). Puerta: vicinity of Puebla, Bro. G. Arsène, no. 
1138 (hb. Gray, hb. Mo. Bot. Gard., hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). LocaLrry 
UNKNOWN: one sheet with very good seeds in the Gray herbarium. 
This material was distributed mostly as H. breviscapa HBK. or 
sometimes as H. decumbens L. 
13. H. numis HBK. Corm globose to subcylindric, 5-11 mm. 
thick, covered with brownish membranous or fibrillous sheaths; 
leaves linear, canaliculate and densely pilose, 0.8-2.8 mm. broad, up 
to 3.5 dm. long; peduncles filiform, pilose, 1-18 cm. long, 1-2-flowered; 
ovary and capsule densely pilose; perianth-segments narrowly 
elliptic, 3-5 mm. long; capsule subglobose, 3-6 mm. long; seeds 
0.8-1.1 mm. in diameter, brown, the outer coat covered with numerous, 
firm, sharp-pointed murications; the beak and hilum small and black. 
—Nov. Gen. et. Sp. Pl. i. 286 (1815). Niobea pratensis Willd. ex 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 762 (1830).—Fields in Mexico and South 
America. The following are referred here. HipAroo: Dr. Coulter, 
nos. 1546 and 1565, with seeds (hb. Gray). Cutapas: C. A. Purpus, 
no. 6966, with seeds (hb. Gray, hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). COLOMBIA: 
southwest of Las Cruces, Bogotá, altitude 2600-2700 m. (7931-8236 
! According to Hemsley in Biologia Centrali-Americana, Botany, iv. Dr. Thomas 
Coulter ''collected in California from 1831-1833, and then in Sonora . Eu 
also collected largely in Zimapan and Real del Monte, where he was Surgeon to one 
of the Mining Companies; but this appears to have been previous to his visit to 
California. His collection went to Trinity College, Dublin . . After Coulter's 
death in 1843, Harvey distributed the duplicates of the collection, and the first 
set is at Kew.” Since the two specimens in the Gray Herbarium do not seem like 
other north Mexican species probably they came from either Zimapan or Real del 
Monte both of which are in the state of Hidalgo. 
