33 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
Yucca valida Brandegee is the only Cape yucca, and grows nor- 
mally, in the shade of other brush and rarely is 8 ft high, but 
west of La Paz is a forest of it where the trees are 30-40 ft. high 
and branch as brevifolia does, but the leaves persist longer and in 
age are reflexed so that the swab-like tips are often 6-8 ft. long. 
The leaves rarely are over a foot long and ace flat and thin aud 
with few or no threads on the margins and then serrulate. They 
are long-acuminate and contracted below. The flowers are about 
an inch long and rather globose-ovate, but variable and white. 
The fruit is decidedly juicy when ripe and pendulous. It is clear- 
ly a close relative of Schottii if not a good variety of it. My no. 
27574 from road to the Cape from Todos Santos west of La Paz. 
menocallis jaliscensis n, sp. Jones Mex. no. 45s 
P.college no.119358. Salcillo, Jalisco, Mex. Juue 1 I842, also 
at La Palma near by. Allied to H, Caynemensis Herb. Plants 
about a foot high, erect or ascending, fleshy and thick, from large 
and tunicated bulbs with brownish seales with filiform vertical 
cells, Leaves broadly linear, arcuate and acuminate and equitant. 
shorter than the peduncles, rather many. Corolla tube about 
3 inches long and with segments about as long, and a little longer 
than the stamen. Style elongated and as long as the petals. Fru ts 
many, ovate , 4 mm. long, congested and with 2 hyaline and pet- 
al-like bracts 1.5 cm, long which are tapering, smooth, acuteé, 
and linear. Leaves very finely striate. 
Sisyrinchium translucens Bicknell looks like an Hypoxis, my no. 
27570 growing on the prairie at the laguna. Laguna mts, L- Cal 
Plants 6-12 inches high, erect, annual or short-lived perennial 
perfectly smooth throughout. Leaves about 3 the length 
of the peduncle, very thin and acuminate,4 mm. wide, with 4 
strong nerves and twice as many fainter ones, sll basal, many 
Proper peduncles filiform but winged on both sides with wings 
1 mm, wide. Spathe 1-2 inches long, with the outer bract a half 
to twice longer than the inner one and long-acuminate, Flowers 
normally 3-4, rarely more, on capillary pedicels an inch long, 
ight-yellow, about 8 mm,long Fruit cordate-obovate, about 8 
mm. long and retuse and shortly-acuminate into the pedicels, with 
very thin walls showiug the outlines of the several rather favose 
black and oblong to oval seeds 1 mm.long. 
Washingtonia filifera Werd has the oue-seeded fruits never 
spherical nor more than oval, and in age the inclosiug pulp becomes 
juicy and black, separating from the seed whieh is rough and yei- 
lowish and suleate on the raphe sideorend, The measurement is 
x4mm. 
