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altitude 2130 to 2285 m., 23-31 August, 1898, E. W. Nelson, no. 4844 

 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., and lib. Gr.). 



Anikencum Nelsonii is apparently most nearly related to A. nanum, 

 Baker, from which it differs in the glabrous character of the scape and 

 by the twice longer capsule. 



Echeandia flexuosa. Roots fascicled, tuberous, crowned by a 

 collar 6 cm. in length, the persistent fibres of the bases of the older 

 leaves : scape 7 to 9 dm. high, llexuous, glabrous, leafy at the base, 

 bearing one or two reduced leaves on the main axis, few-branched above 

 into arcuate-ascending more or less flexuous and somewhat compressed 

 or subangulate branches: leaves linear-attenuate, 1.5 to 8 dm. long, 

 2 to 5 mm. broad, ciliolate to slightly roughened along the margins, 

 thickish and firm in texture, closely parallel-nerved, without transverse 

 anastomosing veinlets, glabrous above, scabrellous on the nerves of the 

 outer or under surface : flowers 3 to 5 in the axils of short chartaceous 

 bracts; pedicels jointed near or below the middle, 16 mm, or less long 

 in fruiting specimens; perianth white or greenish-white, 10 to 12 mm. 

 long ; segments 3-nerved, the inner slightly broader than the outer : 

 stamens about equalling the perianth ; anthers coherent around the style ; 

 filaments plicated: capsule oblong, obtusely triangular, 7 to 10 mm. in 

 length, valves somewhat rugose or transversely ridged : seeds black, about 

 1.5 mm. long and broad m the dried state. — Mexico. State of Jalisco : 

 Rio Blanco, July, 1886, Br. Edward Palmer, no. 185 (hb. Gr.). State 

 of Oaxaca : Mountains of Jayacatlan, altitude 1540 m., 10 September, 

 1894, Z. C. Smith, no. 188 (hb. Gr.). 



Very similar to this species is a specimen collected by Mr. C. G. 

 Pringle on calcareous hills. Las Sedas, State of Oaxaca, altitude 1830 m., 

 no. 5755 (hb. Gr.), but the anthers in Mr. Pringle's specimens are 

 quite distinct, hence according to the present interpretation of the 

 genera Echeandia aud Anthericum it must be referred to the latter 

 genus. 



Echeandia macrocarpa. Scape 6 to 7 dm. high, leafy at the 

 base, 2-3-bracteate above, glabrous: leaves lorate, 2 to 3 dm. long, 

 1.2 to 2 cm. broad, acute, entire or inconspicuously roughened along the 

 margins, dark green and glabrous on both surfaces : inflorescence a 

 glabrous panicle, about 3 dm. in length : pedicels jointed about one-third 

 their length from the base, 2 cm. or less long : flowers 3 to 5 in the axils 

 of chartaceous bracts: perianth white (?), 8 to 12 mm. long; segments 

 3-nerved ; the outer 2 mm., the inner 3 mm. broad : stamens about equal- 

 ling the perianth ; anthers united or coherent into a tube around the style : 



