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nor any other that I knew. The name of Desert Lily will fit 
this plant perfectly, and this is the meaning of the generic name. 
he leaves are flat and narrow and not terete as would be 
inferred from my original description. The pollen grains are 
large, acute at each end and elliptical. The tip of the anthers 
just equals the style in flower. Capsule ovate to oval, scarcely 
crested. 
Bee ee EON OF PLATE XXV. 
MOCRINUM: “A”? plant natural size, ‘“B”’ flower and ieee a ae 
ioe eos ag ae pod enlarged four diameters, ‘‘D’’ stamen enlar: 
six diameters, showing the auricled base of anther, ‘‘ E.”’ 5a of Scat 
showing nerves, enlarged three diameters, ‘‘F 1”? cross-section of upper 
part of leaf ‘‘F 2’’ cross-section of lower part of leaf. 
CyMOPTERUS: “Ar” seed of C. Farryi showing wings, ‘‘A 2” same 
with wider wings, ‘“B1’’ seed of C. Newéderryi var. alatus without wings on 
back, ‘‘B 2”? same with wings developed one of them corky thickened, ‘‘C”’ 
= glomeratus with wings thickened as much asin C. Parryi one form, ‘‘D”’ 
*. Newberryi wi 
ith one rib thickened nea s ee as the lateral ones, a 
ommon occurrence; “ E’’ Cymopterus Jbapensis Jones; ‘‘F”’ C. longifes with 
some of the wings enlarged in the mi after the fashion of the above; 
C. Jonesit. The enlargement of each is shown by the fraction 
underneath. 
