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basal sheathiug leaf 1^ inches long : flowers greenish ochroleucous, in 

 an open raceme 2 inches long ; pedicels very slender, 1 to 3 lines 

 long ; bracts very snuUl : sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, 2 lines long, the lip a little shorter, attenuate from a broader 

 base. — In low meadows, Flor de Maria, State of Mexico; July, 

 1890 (n. 3186). 



Sfiranthks Pringlei. Root of fascicled fusiform tubers an 

 inch long ; stem slender, 4 to 8 inches high, puberulent, the scattered 

 sheathing bracts (5 or G) tliiu. acute or acuminate, ^ to 1 inch long: 

 spike loosely few-flowered, 1 or 2 inches long, the narrowly lanceolate 

 bracts equalling the ovaries : flowers white, the lanceolate se[)als 

 3 lines long; lip a little longer, dilated above into a reniform un- 

 dulately margined blade; column short, its crest short and obtuse; 

 beak of the anther oblong, acutish : capsule oblong-ovate, 3 lines long. 

 — Moist plains near Guadalajara; June, 1889 (n. 2877). Radical 

 leaves unknown. 



Spikanthes (Stenorhynchus) Jaliscana. Radical leaves un- 

 known ; stem from a fascicle of long tuberous roots, leafless, a foot 

 high, glandular-pubescent above, partially covered with acute or short- 

 acuminate bracts an inch long: flowers in a rather loose slender spike, 

 subtended by linear-lanceolate acuminate bracts 4 to 6 lines long; 

 sepals and petals red, 9 lines long, narrow above the prominent gib- 

 bosity, acuminate, the lip much narrowed above the dilated and 

 auricled basal portion: capsule ^ inch long. — Plains near Guadala- 

 jara; June, 1889 (n. 2874). Related to S. speciosa. 



Bletia Palmeri. Stem from a tuberous-thickened base upon a 

 slender rootstock, slender, 1 to 1^ feet high, G-12-flowered : leaves 

 shorter than the stem, broadly linear, 6 to 10 inches long by 3 to 6 lines 

 broad ; bracts srnall : perianth purplish, G to 9 lines long; sepals and 

 petals nearly equal, oblong, acutish ; lip 6 lines long and nearly as 

 broad, with broad rounded lateral lobes, a rhomboidal middle lobe, and 

 seven very prominent contiguous laminae extending from the base to 

 the apex: capsule an inch long, on a pedicel 3 or 4 lines long. — 

 Collected at Rio Blanco, Jalisco, in August, I88fi, by Dr. E. Palmer 

 (n. 336), and in the barranca near Guadalajara in May, 1889, by 

 Mr. Priugle (n. 3023). 



GovENiA elliptica. Basal sheaths very broadly dilated, the 

 lono-er 6 inches long ; leaves lanceolate above the enclosed petiole, 

 acuminate, 8 inches long by 3 broad, nearly equalling the loose but 

 many-flowered spike ; floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than 

 the slender ovaries: sepals and petals brown, 6 lines long, bilabiately 



