1895.] Undescribed Plants from Western Mexico. 537 
purplish, four to five lines long, deeply cleft, and with a short 
tube (about a line in length): anther-cells narrowly oblong, 
slightly oblique, one extended a little above the other: cap- 
sule four to five lines long, the stipe equalling the ovate lat- 
erally compressed body; seed flat, tuberculate-roughened, ir- 
regularly cordiform with thickened. margins, two lines long, 
scarcely as wide.—Collected at Manzanillo by Dr. Edward 
Palmer, December, 1890 (no. 892); and in dry soil under 
‘‘Mango” trees at Villa Union, Sinaloa, by Mr. Lamb, Janu- 
ary 8, 1895 (no. 420). 
Henrya grandifolia, n. sp.—Slender, two to four feet high, 
the branches densely glandular-pubescent above, glabrate 
below: leaves lance-ovate, three to five inches long, twelve 
to sixteen costate, tapering above to an acuminate tip, and 
below to a petiole an inch or so long, appressed-pubescent 
on both surfaces, sparingly villous on the midrib above; the 
Margin nearly entire, ciliate: the axillary or terminal spikes 
lax, with a few scattered flowers; the spike generally sub- 
tended below by a pair of ovate or orbicular glandular-pubes- 
cent leaf-like bracts: bractlets subtending the involucre 
oblanceolate, one and one-half to two lines long: involucres 
four and one-half to five lines long, oblanceolate, rounded and 
often corniculate at the tip: calyx a line high, with lance-sub- 
ulate teeth: corolla white, three-fourths inch in length: anther- 
cells elongate-oblong.—Collected at Escuinapa, Sinaloa, by 
Mr. Lamb, January 29, 1895 (no. 505). 
Tillandsia (Platystachys) exserta, n. sp.—Leaves about 
twenty, rosulate and strongly recurved, deeply canaliculate 
above, softly white-lepidote on both surfaces; the dilated base 
broadly lanceolate, an inch long; the blade lance-subulate 
three to six inches long: peduncle six inches in length: bracts 
Ovate, appressed-imbricated, the lower with subulate leafy 
tips two to three inches long; the upper with very short tips; 
all densely white-lepidote: the simple distichous spike two 
to four inches long, half inch broad, rather densely flowered: 
flower-bracts lance-ovate, acute, eight to eleven lines long, 
Straw-colored shading into rose at the margins, lepidote, be- 
coming smooth: sepals lance-linear, exserted often half inch 
beyond the bracts: petals ovate-oblong, violet, half inch long, 
slightly exceeded by the stamens.—Common on the bushes 
and trees near Mazatlan, Sinaloa, occurring mostly upon the 
trees bordering the ‘‘esteros” or lagoons. Collected by Mr, 
Lamb, January 2, 1895 (no. 381 
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