OF THE MATTO GROSSO EXPEDITION, 1891-92. 495 
In the figures of Tab. XXXIV. the anthers are shown as quite free from the style-arms, 
and I believe this to be the case with fresh flowers, as I distinctly remember collecting 
some lrideous flowers with curious free staminal appendages. In the dried flower, 
however, the anthers are each of them attached to its respective style by means of its 
two appendages, which get squeezed against the two lamine—one against each lamella— 
so that it is only by very careful dissection that the appendages ean be isolated: fig. 4 
shows well the relation between anther and style-arm in a dried flower. 
Zygella is somewhat peculiar in the structure of its leaf, inasmuch as, contrary to the 
rule in Iridaces, the vascular bundles are not accompanied by sclerenchyme. Scleren- 
chyme is found only at the four edges of the leaf (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 13), and there is an 
interval between each of the masses of sclerenchyme and the nearest vascular bundle, an 
interval occupied by resin-sacs. The epidermal cells are large and very thick-walled, the 
inner wall also being greatly strengthened. 
HYPOXIDEZ. 
CURCULIGO ENSIFOLIA, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xvii. p. 124. 
Hab. Santa Cruz, Nov. (N. 735.) [Amer. Austr. Trop., Ind. Occ.] 
AMARYLLIDE E. 
ZEPHYRANTHES (S EUZEPHYRANTHES) LACTEA (sp. nov.); bulbo ovoideo, tunicis fusco- 
bruneis dense obtecto, tunicis ad 2:0 em. long. ultra bulbum in collum eminentibus ; 
foliis radicalibus elongatis, anguste linearibus, obtusis, tempore florendi prolatis ; 
scapo gracili, raro deorsum ampliato; spatha oblonga 2:0—3:0 cm. long., more generis 
apice bifida; pedunculo spatham nune zequante, nune quam ea longiore vel breviore, 
gracili; floribus mediocribus; perianthii tubo brevissimo, lobis ovato-lanceolatis, 
breviter acuminatis, inter se arcte applicatis, et ita tubum superne leviter ac gradatim 
ad 0'5 cm. ampliatum mentientibus ; staminibus juxta basin tubi insertis, filamentis 
complanatis tribus; perianthii segmentis interioribus antipositis ; longioribus 
sequilongis, tribus brevioribus «equilongis ; stigmate insequaliter trifido. 
Hab. Crescit in locis apertis ad Jangada, mens. Sept. florens. (N. 283.) 
Bulbus 15 cm. diam., 1:0 em. long., collum solemniter 1:0-2:0 cm. long. et 0:7-0:9 
cm. diam. Folia radicalia 8:0—14-0 cm. long., nonnunquam basi attenuata, 0:2-0:3 
em. lat. Scapus usque ad spatham 6:0-16:0 em. long., sub spathá levissime ampliatus 
ibique floribus dilapsis incrassatus. Spatha usque ad 3:0 em. long., sublaxa, circa 
ad 0:5 em. bifida. Pedunculus 2:0-5:0 cm. long. tenuis vel satis incrassatus. 
Flores albi. Flos totus 4'5 em. long., vix 3:0 em. diam.  Perianthii tubus 0*4 cm. 
long., annulo squamarum parvarum laceratarum auctus. Anthere anguste lineares, 
1:2 cm. long. Filamenta breviora 0:5 cm. long., longiora 29:0 em. Stylus 1:8-21 
em. long., rami 0:15 cm. long. 
A Z. cearensi, Baker, abhorret floribus majoribus albis, perianthii tubo squamato, 
staminibus multo majoribus insequialtis, etc.  [ Bras. Or., Goyaz.] 
