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near El Parque, Sept. 21, 1903, Rose & Painter, no. 844 (in U. S. 

 Nat. Herb., sheets nos. 454,954 & 454,955). — No fruit of this species 

 has been preserved, but its floral characters place it clearly very near 

 E. rejlexa. So far as the material at hand shows, it differs from that 

 species only in its more leafy stem and more branched inflorescence and 

 may very probably prove to be no more than a variety of it. — Here are 

 doubtfully placed the specimens from two collections of C. F. Gaumer 

 namely from Yucatan, Izamal, Sept., 1895, no. 843 and Chicankanab, 

 no. 1995 (the latter in Herb. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., sheet no. 58,793). 

 These specimens have neither fruit nor good flowers and in their absence 

 can hardly be placed definitely. They have mostly a much-branched 

 inflorescence, several(7-8)-bracted stem and the leaves pass abruptly 

 into the much reduced bracts. In this respect they differ from 

 E. paniculata ; and the branches of the inflorescence are more 

 slender and the flower-buds smaller than in either that species or 

 E. rejlexa, although the plants are quite as robust. 



8. E. albiflora (Schlecht. & Cham.) Mart. & Gal. Leaves basal, 

 several, lanceolate-linear, narrowed to an acute apex, the principal 

 nerves united by transverse veinlets, membranous, glabrous, about 36 

 cm. long, 1.8-2 cm. wide ; stem scabrous or hirtellous below ; inflor- 

 escence paniculate ; pedicels slender, 10 mm. long, jointed below the 

 middle ; flowers white ; perianth-segments lanceolate ; filaments re- 

 trorsely papillose-crispate, equalling the anthers ; capsule ? — Bull. 

 Acad. Brux. ix. 386 (1842) ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 628 (1843). Conan- 

 thera albiflora Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea, vi. 50 (1831). Echeandia 

 leucantha Klotzsch, fide Kunth, 1. c. — I have seen no material refera- 

 ble to this species. The above description is taken chiefly from that 

 of Kunth. 



9. E. flexuosa Greenman. Leaves firm, closely and prominently 

 veined, suberect, minutely scabrous beneath, 2-5 mm. wide, variable 

 in length (reaching 8 dm.), long-acuminate ; stem 9 dm. high or less, 

 smooth, 2-3-bracted, the lower bract sometimes elongated and seta- 

 ceous, reaching 15 cm. in length ; pedicels jointed near or below the 

 middle, rather stout, in fruit 12-16 mm. long ; flowers rather large 

 with lanceolate perianth-segments ; filaments moderately roughened, 

 shorter than or nearly equalling the anthers ; capsule oblong, 6-9 mm. 

 long, 3-4 mm. wide. — Proc. Am. Acad, xxxix. 73 (1903). — Mexico : 

 State of Oaxaca, Mts. of Jayacatlan, alt. 1400 m., 10 Sept., 1894, 

 Lucius C. Smith, no. 188. State of Jalisco, Rio Blanco, July, 1886, 

 Palmer, no. 185 ; bluffs of the barranca of Guadalajara, 1400 m., 19 

 July, 1902, Pringle, no. 11,197. 



10. E. Pringlei Greenman. Leaves firm, closely and prominently 



