702 Russpy: AN ENUMERATION OF THE PLANTS 
shining, the beak very short and broad, light-brown, the nerves 
barely perceptible. 
LILIACEAE 
Smilax floribunda Kunth Enum. Pl. 5: 229. Mapiri, 5000 it; 
Apr. 1886 (no. 558). 
Smilax phylloloba Griseb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 1: 21? Guanai, 
2000 ft., May 1886 (no. 560). 
’ Smilax irrorata Griseb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 1: 10. Reis, 1500 
ft., June 1886 (no. 561). 
Excremis coarctata (R. & P.) Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 15: 
320. 1876. Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 2504@) and Mapiri, 
5000 ft., Apr. 1886 (no. 2856). The same as Bang’s no. 2277. 
Nothoscordum striatum (Jacq.) Kunth Enum, Pl. 4: 459- 
(Alhum striatum Jacq. Coll. Suppl. 51.) Near Valparaiso, Chile, 
June 1885 (no. 581). 
Milla andicola (Kunth) Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 11 ( 1870): 
381. (Nothoscordum andicolum Kunth 1. c. 643.) Vic. La Paz 
10,000 ft., Apr. 1885 (no. 579), and Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 
580). The same as Mandon’s no. 1235. Also collected by 
Bang. 
Miersia Rusbyi Britton, sp. nov. 
Minutely puberulent under a lens: bulb ovoid or broadly pyri- 
form : leaves few, narrowly linear or filiform: scapes 1.5—2.5° dm. 
long, very slender, slightly thickened upward, the several flowers 
loosely umbelled : bracts 1-2 cm. long, thin and delicate : pedicels 
2-5 cm. long, filiform, striate : perianth-segments regularly acumi- 
nate from the base to the acute apex, the sepals nearly 1.5 cm., the — 
petals a little more than 1 cm. long. 
I find my specimens labelled “‘ Yungas, Bolivia, 6000 ft., 1885," 
but it is my impression that they were collected near Llai-Ilai, 
Chile, under shrubbery on a shaded hillside (no. 2540). 
. PONTEDERIACEAE 
Eichornia crassipes (Mart.) Schum. in DC. Monog. Pharm. 4° 
527. (Pontederia crassipes Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1: 9.) Falls 
of Madeira, Brazil, Oct. 1886 (no. 509). 
Eichornia pauciflora Seub. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 1: 91. Reis, 
1500 ft., June 1886 (no. 553). 
