88 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
third narrowly oblong-paniculate: scape moderate: bracts triangular, 
close, somewhat spreading: branches horizontal or slightly ascending: 
pedicels slender, about 5 mm, long. Flowers fetid, greenish yellow, 
60-70 mm. long: ovary 35-40 mm. long, fusiform: tube conical, 15 mm. 
deep: segments 5 15 mm., equaling the tube but less than half as 
long as the ovary: filaments inserted about the upper third of the | 
tube, 45-50 mm. or more long and fully thrice as long as the segments. 
Fruit? 
Southeastern Mexico.—Pl. 73, 74. 
Specimens examined.—Limon, on the Interoceanic R. R., 
above Jalapa (Trelease, 1, Feb. 1905). se 
Long cultivated, but of doubtful origin, and greatly mis- 
understood because of the difference between juvenile, mod- 
erately developed, and mature plants. Jacobi notes that 
somewhere about 1856 Haseloff acquired a plant from a Ber- 
lin gardener. Tonel is said by Koch to have exhibited it in 
Ghent in 1862. Regel reports it in 1865 as imported, like 
streptocantha (A. Verschaffeltit) by J. Verschaffelt. At the 
London exhibition of 1866 awards were made for it to A. 
Verschaffelt, R. Barclay, W. B. Kellock and C. Pfersdorff, 
and from this time on it appears in the lists of various deal- 
ers, of whom Laurentius alone gives its source,—as Mirador. 
From this it may, perhaps, be assumed that the Haseloff spec- 
imen noted by Jacobi was sent to Berlin somewhere about 
1855, when Sartorius sent over the plant variously known as 
Sartori, Noackii, pendula &c. The Verschaffelt importation 
is suggestive of the activities of Roezl on the table-land about 
Puebla, and the spontaneous plant at Limon, toward the 
point where the plateau falls away, is evidently the same as 
applanata when fully developed in the Mediterranean gar- 
dens. In mid-age it is very similar to Parry?, which led Miss 
Mulford to place the latter under it as a variety. Jacobi, 
himself, recognized two garden varieties: a long-leaved one, 
var, major, and a very white form, var. subnivea, neither of 
which has been heard of for many years. It is reported in 
the Lyon Horticole, 22: 370, that pollen of applanata was 
successfully used for the fertilization of maculata [Terrac- 
cianoi?], but the subsequent history of the cross does not | 
appear. 
