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flowers small, 1 cm. or less in diameter : sepals oblong, somewhat 

 navicular, 4 to 6 mm. long, glabrous: petals ovate or subrotund, 5 to 

 6 mm. long and broad, deep purple : stamens 6, equal ; filaments bearded ; 

 anthers uniform: capsule oblong, obtusely triangular, 5 mm. long, 

 hirtellous-puberulent above. — Mexico. State of Morelos : Sierra de 

 Tepoxtlan, near Cuernavaca, altitude 2300 m., 11 September, 1900, 

 C. G. Pringle, no. 9250 (hb. Gr.). 



This species belongs to the section Eutradescantia, and is seem- 

 ingly most nearly related to T. Karwinskyana, Roein. & Schult., and 

 T. linearis, Torr. The writer takes pleasure in dedicating the species 

 to Senor Dr. Manuel Urbina, Director of the National Museum, City 

 of Mexico. 



Zygadenus mohinorensis. Bulbs scaly-fibrous coated, about 2 cm. 

 in diameter : scape 10 dm. high, commonly bearing 2 remote leaves : 

 basal leaves, 5 to 6 dm. long, 10 to 14 mm. broad, attenuate to an 

 obtuse tip, dark green and glabrous on both surfaces : inflorescence 3 to 



4 dm. in length, branched below ; branches erect, subappressed against 

 the main axis ; bracts of the inflorescence conspicuous, green or purplish, 

 exceeding the 0.5 to 2 cm. long pedicels: flowers white or greenish- 

 white, about 2 cm. in diameter ; perianth-divisions oblong, 10 mm. long, 



5 to 7 mm. broad, bearing at their base an obcordate or somewhat 

 Y-shaped erose-margined gland : stamens included, equalling the style- 

 branches, about one-half as long as the perianth-segments : mature fruit 

 not seen. — Mexico. State of Chihuahua : Mt. Mohinora, 1 September, 

 1898, E. W. Nelson, no. 4875 (hb. Gr., and hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



This species is most nearly related to Z. elegans, Pursh, but differs in 

 the somewhat larger flowers, the more conspicuous and longer bracts of 

 the inflorescence, and in the nature of the glands at the base of the 

 perianth-segments. 



Veratrum californicum, Durand, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. Ser. 

 IT. iii. 103 ; Watson, Bot. Calif, ii. 182. The geographical range of this 

 species is extended considerably southward by the collection of excellent 

 specimens in the Sierra Madres near Colonia Garcia, State of Chihuahua, 

 Mexico, altitude 2450 m., 7 August, 1899, Townsend fy Barber, no. 

 235 (hb. Gr. ). 



Anthericum drepanoides. Roots fleshy-fibrous, sometimes tuber- 

 ous, fascicled, crowned by a collar of brownish fibres 2 to 3 cm. in length, 

 the remains of the bases of the older leaves : assimilating leaves rosulate, 

 about 9, lance-attenuate, 0.5 to 1.5 dm. long, 8 to 18 mm. broad, acute, 

 conspicuously ciliate on the subcartilaginous margins, more or less con- 



