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— 12 cm longa. Flores — 2 cm longi. Bracteae flores superantes, squamis aequales, in 

 apice spicae comosae, glabrae. Bracteolae oblongo-lineares, in margine minute puberulae, 

 calyce breviores. Gorolla lutea, calycem superans, glabra; laciniae labii inferi oblongae, 

 acutae, glabrae vel in apice puberulae. Stamina in tertio infimo corollae inserta; fila- 

 menta brevia, crassa, infra glabra, supra ad antheras pilosula vel glabra; thecae acu- 

 minato-mucronulatae ; pollen 25 — 30^. Stylus elongatus, glaber; stigma peltato-globosum. 

 Capsula ovato-globularis, calyce brevior. Semina obovata. 



Plantae nutrientes. Grescit ad radices Quercuum et Fagorum, ex quibus Quercus 

 rubra L., Qu. velutina Lindl., Qu. costaricensis Liebm. et Fagus ferruginea Ait. [F. ameri- 

 cana Sweet) indicantur. 



In den östlichen Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika von Ohio und New 

 York bis Georgia und Florida, dann in Mexico und Costarica (?). 



New York! bei Buffalo (Matthieu), Staten Island, Richmond; Massachusetts!, 

 Blue Hills (Mertens); Pennsylvanien! (Poeppig, Hooker), bei Mercersburg (Porter); 

 New Jersey b. Newton (Geubel), am Delaware; Ohio! (Werthner); Carolina! (L'Her- 

 minier); North Carolina (Rugel nach Reuter), Biltmore (Biltmore Herb. n. 158a); 

 Kentucky! (Matthes n. 16); South Carolina! bei Charleston (Frost, Cabanis); Virginia! 

 Richmond; Georgia!; Florida, bei Apalachicola, Ocala, Hibernia (A. W. Chapman u. a.); 

 Indiana. 



Mexico: (Leibold, Schiede und Deppe n. 1188); bei Mexico (Schmitz n. 571), 

 zwischen Mexico und Toluca im April (Andrieux, PI. mexic. n. 163), Real del monte 

 (Gregg), Jalapa, Irazu, Orizaba (Müller n. 647), Mirador, bei Vera Cruz (Hohenacker) 

 bei 3000 — 3800' Seehöhe; Oaxaca, in der Sierra de San Felipe bei 8000 — 9000' See- 

 höhe (Pringle, PI. Mex. n. 4676), Nova Caesarea (Eaton Mex. bound. Surv. n. 713). — 

 Costarica (Hoffmann n. 721). 



Nota. Über die Verbreitung, Lebensweise und Histologie vergleiche: Wilson, L., Observ. 

 on Conopholis americana, Gontrib. of the bot. labor. of the univ. of Penns. nov. ser. n. V, II. 

 (1898) 3—19, mit 6 Tafeln, II. (1904). — Blüht im Mai bis Juli. 



2. ?C. mexicana A. Gray in Herb, ex S. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. XVIII. ( I 882 — 

 1883) 131; Hemsley in Biol. Centr. Amer. of. Bot. IV. (1887) 78. — "Distinguished 

 from G. americana by its longer and more rigid lanceolate acuminate scales, the calyx 

 less deeply toothed, and the corolla larger (8 lines long)." 



N. Mexico. Andrieux; C. A. Purpus, Fl. of Mexico n. 2998 sub Quercubus 

 (Febr. 1908)! 



Nota. "The plant figured by Endlicher (Iconogr. t. 81) for G. americana is G. mexi- 

 cana, probably from Andrieux' s collection. As Wats on observes, possibly from a memoran- 

 dum by A. Gray, Endlicher's figure was most likely made from Andrieux's collection, 

 for there is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium (formerly in Gray's herbarium) collected by 

 Andrieux, which is so like the figure that it may have been the one actually drawn." (Biol. 

 centr. amer.) 



3. Epiphegus Nutt. 



Epiphegus Sprengel, Neue Entdeck. I. (1820) 26 4 et Syst. II. (1825) 819; Dar- 

 lington, Fl. cestrica, 72; Endl. Gen. pl. 726 et Iconogr. t. 80 (placentae et semina in- 

 correcta); G. Don, Gen. hist. IV. 634; Spach, Veg. phan. IX. 261; Hook. Fl. bor. am. 

 II. 93; Reuter in DC. Prodr. XI. 3; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. II. 986; A. Gray, Man. 

 bot. U. St. ed. 5, 322; Beck in Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 b. 130. — 

 Epifagus Bart. Comp. fl. Philad. II. (1818) 50 sec. Barnhart m. Julio non Jan. 1818; 

 Poiret, Enc. meth. V. (1819) 15, 71. — Epifagus Nuttall, Gen. Amer. II. (1818) 60, 

 sec. Barnhart et A. Gray 1819. — Leptamnium Rafmesque in Amer. monthl. mag. 

 Jan. 1818, 194 nomen pro Epifago ab autore propositum sec. Pfeiffer, Nom. bot. II. 

 1. 78 et in Journ. Phys. 89. (1819) 259, etiam in Am. monthly Mag. II. (1818) 267 

 fide J. Hendley Barnhart in Bull. Torr. bot. Club XXIV. (1897) 409 et XXVI. (1899) 

 379, 380; Britt. and Brown, 111. fl. North. Un. stat. III. (1898) 197; confer notam. — 

 Mylanehe Wallr. Orob. gen. diask. (1825) 75 = Mylachne Steudel, Nomencl. ed. 2. 



