114 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
after a lapse of sixty years, the plant not having been found 
in the United States since Drummond’s original collection 
in 1834, The specimens agree with the published descrip- 
tions and with herbarium material of the same species from 
South America.—Plate 49. 
SEpuM TEXANUM, 0. sp. 
Herbaceous perennial; glabrous, ascending, 1.5 to 2 dm. 
high, cespitose, sparingly branched from near the base; 
leaves sparse, thick fleshy, obovate to ovate lanceolate, 
obtuse or mostly acute or acuminate, broad at the base, 
sessile, 2 to 2.5cm. long; flowers sessile or short pedicelled, 
solitary or two or three together, forming a sub-secund 
raceme, or paniculately branched in the larger specimens, 
rather remotely flowered below; sepals oblong, acute; 
petals 5, rosy yellow, narrowly oblong, thickened and 
apiculate at the apex, one-half longer than the sepals; 
scales minute, truncate; stamens 10, shorter than the 
petals, the filaments flattened; anthers bright yellow; car- 
pels 5, inflated, many seeded, with a slender beak tipped 
by the very short persistent style, dehiscent down the ven- 
tral suture. Collected by G. C. Nealley, in flower, the last 
week in October, 1894, growing in the chapparal near Cor- 
pus Christi, Texas. It is most closely related to JS. 
Wrightii, Gray, but differs in the form of the inflorescence 
and in the much larger leaves. The type specimen is in 
the herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden.—Plate 50. 
ELYTRARIA BROMOIDES, Oersted. 
This and STeNANDRIUM DULCE, Nees, are two interesting 
little Texan plants collected near Corpus Christi by Mr. 
Nealley. Habit sketches and detail drawings of flower and 
fruit are given in plate 51. 
ZEPHRYANTHES PULCHELLA, N. sp. 
Bulb globose, 1 to 2 cm. in diameter, covered with dark 
brown tunics; neck 3 to 4 cm. long; leaves 3 or 4, appear- 
