1923] Brackett,—American Species of Hypoxis 145 
ft.), F. W. Pennell, no. 2163, with seeds (hb. Gray, hb. N. Y. Bot. 
Gard.); plateau de Sta. Fé de Bogotá, 1861, ex herb. Parseval- 
Grandmaison, with seeds (hb. Gray.). Eucapom: Quitensian Andes, 
J. P. Couthouy, 1855 (hb. Gray). BoLrivia: Miguel Bang, no. 1793, 
with seeds (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard., hb. Mo. Bot. Gard., hb. Gray, hb. 
U. S. Nat. Mus.); G. Mandon, no. 1208, with seeds (hb. Gray, hb. 
N. Y. Bot. Gard.). ARGENTINA: F. Kurtz, no. 8386, with seeds 
(hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
This material was distributed as H. decumbens L., H. pusilla HBK., 
and H. humilis HBK. 
14. H. mexicana Schultes. Corm globose to subcylindric, 3-12 
mm. thick, the membranous bases of the old leaves frequently 
forming somewhat fibrillous tufts; leaves linear-lanceolate, pilose, 
1.2-4 mm. broad, up to 3.2 dm. long; peduncles filiform, canaliculate, 
densely pilose above, glabrescent below, 1.5-18 cm. long, 1-several- 
flowered; ovary and capsule densely pilose; perianth-segments linear 
or narrowly elliptic, 3-8 mm. long; capsule globose to subcylindric, 
2.5-15 mm. long; seeds 0.8-1.1 mm. in diameter; the outer coat brown, 
muricate, with long, sharp processes, irregularly exfoliating in patches 
showing the black coat beneath; the beak and hilum prominent and 
black.—Schultes in Roemer and Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 761 (1830). 
—Along the bases of the mountain ranges of Mexico, northward into 
Arizona. The following are referred here. VERA CRUZ: near 
Santa Fé, J. N. Rose & Jos. H. Painter, no. 6522, without seeds (hb. 
U. S. Nat. Mus.); Orizaba, ex herb. Mus. Paris, no. 2830, without 
seeds (hb. Gray). TLaxcaLa: Contadero, J. N. Rose & Robert Hay, 
no. 5967, without seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). Mexico: near 
Toluca, J. N. Rose & Jos. II. Painter, no. 6776, with seeds (hb. U. S. 
Nat. Mus.); Cima, J. N. Rose & Jos. H. Painter, no. 7187, without 
seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.); near Eslava, lava beds, altitude 2440 m. 
(8000 feet), Rusby, no. 339, with seeds (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); near 
Eslava, J. N. Rose & Jos. H. Painter, no. 7140, with seeds (hb. U. S. 
Nat. Mus.); on Popocatepetl, J. N. Hose & Robert Hay, no. 6307, 
with seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Amecameca, C. A. Purpus, no. 1834, 
with seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., hb. Mo. Bot. Gard., hb. Gray). 
HipaLco: between Pachuca and Real del Monte, J. N. Rose de Jos. 
H. Painter, no. 6683, with seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.); between 
Somoriel and Las Lajas, J. N. Hose & Jos. H. Painter, no. 9219, 
without seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.) SINALOA: in the foothills 
of the Sierra Madre, near Colomas, J. N. Rose, no. 1655, with seeds 
(hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). Cumvanva: damp places, pine plains, base 
of the Sierra Madre, C. G. Pringle, no. 1380, with seeds (hb. N. Y. 
Bot. Gard., hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., nos. 932928 and 36590, hb. Gray, 
hb. Phil. Acad.); near Colonia Garcia, E. W. Nelson, no. 6127, with 
seeds (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.) Arizona: near Fort Huachuca at 
Tanner’s Cafion, in sod, Lemmon, no. 2891, with seeds (hb. Gray); 
