ceeding patent anterior lip: 



anthers ciliate.— Rock : ' 



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iQ botanical gazette. [February, 



secund equalling leaves ; flowers 12-15, pubescent, alternate 

 ? «nnn*ite twice exceeding foliaceous bracts : calyx 2 

 Hues Tong failing pedicel : Corolla yellow, 10 lines long 

 tubular nearly to lips and half a line wide ; postenoi lip l 

 Hue long'un ted with equal lateral lobes, nearly >Wice ex- 



J^Hir latent anterior lip: filaments scarcely margined; 



es, Chajrax, Depart. Alta Ver 



anaz ait z uuu iccc, — , ^87 (Ex PI. cit. 406 ) . - A fti n 1 ty 



i?with the recently described S. lutau Baton. Gaz. mi. 76; 

 but conspicuously different by filiform corolla. 



Daphnopsis radiata (§ Nordmannia Benth. et Hook .), 

 Fruticose, younger parts and inflorescence senceous-pubes- 

 ^m leaves coriaceous, smooth and shining above, paler 



and veiny beneath, oblanceolate, 8 or o inches long 2 inches 



broad, each end acutely attenuate, sessile : peduncles extra- 

 axiliarv i\-2 inches long, terminated by a globose 35-30- 

 flowered umbel 16 lines in diameter ; pedicels filiform, twice 

 exceeding flowers : pistillate perianth urceolate-fusi 01 m , 

 roundish unequal lobes * line long: staminodes most mi- 

 nute: style equalling sub-stipitate ovary, large globose stig- 

 •-^..•Vj iL ™«;™„t ruM-ianth-lobes: staminate flowers 



not seen 



600 



(Ex PI. cit. 1,163).— Well marked by large leaves numerous 

 elongated pedicels, small perianth-lobes, long style. 



Hypoxis racbmosa (§ Euhyfoxis Baker ) .—Tuber oblong, 



4 inch thick, neck elongate: leaves plicate, cannate, 7-9- 

 veined, a foot or more long, 6 lines broad: seaprs 5-6 sub- 

 erect, a third shorter than leaves: racemes densely v.llose 

 2-3 inches long, 7-8-flowered ; pedicels equalling bracts and 

 internodes, alternate above : exterior per-anth-segments 

 trreen on face with colored margin, linear-lanceolate, 5 »nes 

 long, 1 line broad ; the interior a little smaller, more than 

 twice exceeding stamens: style with stigma equalling hla- 

 ment : ovary trigonal, equalling limb.— Coban, alt. 4.300 teet. 

 May, 1886 (Ex PL cit. 33)-— A more robust plant than any 

 forms of it, decumbent L., and distinct from the var. major 

 Seub., by rhizome, distinctly racemose inflorescence, long- 

 pedicellate flowers, elongate perianth. Collected also in 

 Mexico by Botteri (80, 455* 4 6 3)- 



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