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short, 12-15 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, acuminate, spreading and some- 

 what falcate, not sheathing the stem ; stem about 6 dm. tall, smooth, 

 6-bracted, with few (3-4) branches ; pedicels slender, in fruit 11-14 

 mm. long, jointed below the middle ; filaments smooth ; capsule short- 

 oblong, 4-4.5 mm. wide, 7-8 mm. long. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 441 

 (1886). — Mexico: State of Chihuahua, Hacienda San Miguel near 

 Batopilas, Sept., 1885, Palmer, no. 229. 



3. E. nodosa Watson. Leaves membranous, with cross-veinlets, 

 linear-lanceolate, narrowed at base, not sheathing the stem, 18-40 cm. 

 long, 2-2.7 cm. wide ; stem smooth, 6-9-bracted, with 6-7 branches, 

 which rarely branch again ; pedicels slender, jointed below the middle, 

 in fruit 11-14 mm. long; filaments smooth, shorter than the anthers ; 

 capsule oblong, 3.5-4 mm. wide, 8-9 mm. long. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xxvi. 156 (1891). 1 Phalangiv/m ramosissimum Presl, Rel. Haenk. i. 127 

 (1825). 1 Anthericum ramosissimum R. & S. Syst. vii. 469 (1829). 

 lEcheandia Haenkeana Kunth, Enum. iv. 629 (1843). — Mexico : 

 State of Jalisco, near Guadalajara, 12 Nov., 188s, Pringle, no. 2151. 

 Dry rocky bluffs of barranca near Guadalajara, 23 Sept., 1891, Pringle, 

 no. 3870. — Flowers apparently small as in E. macrophylla; the peri- 

 anth-segments narrow, whitish in drying. From Presl s description it 

 seems highly probable that this plant is the same as his Phalangium 

 ramosissimum. In the absence of authentic material, however, I hesi- 

 tate to make the new combination required by the transfer of Presl's 

 species to Echeandia. 



Var. lanceolata, n. var., a forma typica recedit habitu graciliore, 

 foliis angustioribus 6-10 mm. latis, pedicellis 1 cm. longis, capsulis min- 

 oribus 3.5 mm. latis 5-6 mm. longis. — Mexico: State of Sinaloa, 

 Copradia, Oct. 20, 1904, Brandegee, type (in Herb. Univ. Cal., sheet 

 no. 119,863). Ymala, Sept. 28 to Oct. 8, 1891, Palmer, no. 1677. 

 Culiacan, Sept. 17, 1904, Brandegee (in Herb. Univ. Cal., sheet no. 

 119,856). — The name lanceolata was applied to this plant, on her- 

 barium labels, by Mr. Brandegee, who at that time was inclined to 

 regard it as a good species. It seems, however, hardly specifically 

 distinct from E. nodosa. The specimen on sheet no. 119,856 of the 

 University of California Herbarium has broader leaves than the other 

 two plants cited and may be regarded as a transitional form between 

 the extreme development of the variety and typical E. nodosa. 



4. E. macrophylla Rose, in hb., foliis omnino radicalibus caulis 

 basin vaginantibus lanceolatis 20-25 cm. longis 2.8-5 cm. latis in 

 apicem acuminatum angustatis, caule 7 dm. alto glabro 2-bracteato, 

 ramis 5-6 saepe 2 ex axilla unica, pedicellis infra medium vel prope 

 basin articulatis, floribus parvis, perianthii segmentis 1-1.3 cm. longis 



