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smooth: leaves stiff and erect, becomini^ flexuous in withering, atten- 

 uate-acute, 2-4 mm. wide, 25-45 cm. long : stems i 5-35 cm. high, 

 2-3 mm. wide, prominently winged, above passing into an erect, 

 often elongated, bracteal-leaf subtending a lateral-appearing cluster 

 of 2-6 short-peduncled spathcs and rarely also a branch bearing 

 'shorter peduncles ; peduncles narrowly wing-margined, the edges 

 obscurely roughened or becoming smooth, 2-6 cm. or even 10 cm. 

 long, slightly curv^ed, approximate and subequal, the outer two or 

 three arising from a cluster of bracts borne on a very short pro- 

 longation of the stem. At flowering time the spathes are contig- 

 uous in a subsessile cluster: spathes erect or deflected, 14-19 



mm. long, 3-4 mm. 



wide, dull green 



or slightly purplish, the 



bracts conspicuously hyaline-margined, subequal, stiff-herbaceous, 

 stnate-nerved,, somewhat carinate, rather rigidly acuminate, the 

 outer one sheathing for 2-4 mm. at base : interior scales crowded, 

 at maturity ex.serted : flowers numerous, 8-12, rather large, violet ; 

 perianth delicate, becoming i 2 mm. or more long ; stamuieal column 

 5-6 mm. high : capsules on pedicels i 5-20 mm. long spreading or 

 recurved from the tip of the spathe, 4-6 mm. high, trilobate- 

 obovoid or subglobose, impressed at base and retuse, drying dark : 

 seeds black, rugulose, becoming over i mm. in longer diameter. 



The 



pe 



is Nash*s no. 133, *' Plants of Central Peninsular 

 Florida" collected in vicinity of pAistis, Lake County. This dis- 

 tribution furnished many excellent specimens in flower and early 

 fruit collected, '* March 20, 1894, in dry, sandy soil along road 

 in high pine land region." 



The Philadelphia Academy Herbarium has a specimen just in 

 flower collected March 5, 1888, at Okahumpka, Sumptcr County, 



by Isaac Burke. 



The earliest collector of the plant would appear to have been 



Chapman, Judging from an old sheet bearing his signature, now ii 



the Herbarium of Columbia University, labeled *' Plorida, on Sand 



Hills, 1842." 



On the strength of this specimen I drew attention to the plant 

 three years ago in the paper previously referred to and published a 

 brief description. The present description, which was ready for the 

 press when the plant received its recent christening by Professor 

 Greene, is given in full, being based on fairly extensive material, 

 includintr flowers and fruit which Professor Greene had not seen. 



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