88 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
of tube, purplish; anthers 12 to 15 mm. long; capsules 
slender, 30 to 50 cm. long, 15 to 17 mm. wide; seeds very 
small for the group, 4 to 6 mm. in largest diameter. 
Odor very offensive.— Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii. 319, 
Collected Writings, 313; Terr. Monogr. 42; Baker, 
Amaryllideae, 178.— Southeastern Arizona and Southwest- 
ern New Mexico, ascending to 6,300 feet.—Plates 48 to 52. 
Specimens examined :— From Dr. Palmer, Camp Bowie, 
New Mexico, 1869, and Nov., 1870, locality not given; 
Dr. Parry, capsule and seeds, no date; Camp near Sun 
Flower Valley, Dr. Gerard, No. 2, 1873; Santa Rita Mts. 
Dr. Engelmann, Sept., 1880; Benson, Arizona, Dr. G. R. 
Vasey, 1881; Santa Catalina Mts., Mr. C. G. Pringle, 
June, 1881, flowers yellow, and June, 1882; Mr. C. T. 
Brandegee, Santa Rita Mts., Nov., 1891; Dr. T. E. Wil- 
cox, Fort Huachuca, 1893; Prof. J. W. Toumey, Santa 
Catalina Mts., July and December, 1894, and June 20, 
1895. 
Blooms early in July and matures fruit in September 
(Toumey). It propagates itself by offsets and sometimes 
also by suckers. A. Palmeri varies greatly in size, and 
proportional length, breadth, and thickness of leaves. 
Whether these differences remain constant and are correl- 
ated with others entitling them to varietal distinction I 
have not been able to determine. Quite young plants in the 
Huachuca Mountains are said to be difficult to distinguish 
from those of A. applanata Huachucensis, and many very 
short-leaved plants grow there, but the mature plants of 
A. Palmeri are usually recognized at a glance. The 
inflorescence is looser and more spreading, the flowers have 
shorter, broader segments, the filaments are inserted deep 
in the tube, the capsules are longer and more slender, the 
seeds are much smaller, and the mature leaves much nar- 
rower and longer. I found a plant of this species a few 
miles from Fort Bayard, whose leaves had a brown margin 
extending to the base. Professor Toumey reports that 
plants of A. Palmeri often have a purplish cast which 
