BOTANY. 219 
stylus filiformis, stamina æquans ; stigma capitato-trilobum. Capsula late-obovata, truncata, 
3-loba, lobis compressis. Semina in loculis 8-14, verticalia, compresa, biseriata, nigra. Herba 
bulboso-tuberosa. Folia omnia radicalia, linearia, semi-cylindrica. Flores in apice scapi 
umbellati, pedicellati, violacei, bracteis 3-4 involucrati ; pedicellis inarticulatis. 
ANDROSTEPHIUM VIOLACEUM.— Hills and prairies on the rivers Blanco and Colorado, Texas, 
March ; Wright. We have excellent specimens from Dr. R. Gleason, United States army, 
collected near Fort Arbuckle; and it occurs in Lindheimer's Texan collection fasc. IV. Leaves /¥ 5 
6-8 inches long and 1-2 lines wide, arising from a small coated bulb which surmounts a depressed 
globose bulb or corm. Scape about as long as the leaves, rather stout, bearing at the summit 
an umbel of 2—7 flowers, which have a faint sweet odor. Bracts scarious, lanceolate, acuminate, 
3-nerved.  Pedicels rather shorter than the flower. Perianth nearly an inch long, 6-cleft nearly 
to the middle, the segments more or less spreading, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 6, the free portion 
of the filaments united into a tube which arises from the orifice of the perianth is conspicuously 
exserted, and produced between and beyond the anthers into a crown of 6 oblong emarginate 
lobes. Anthers linear-oblong, notched at each end. Style about as long as the stamens. Ovary 
entirely free from the base of the perianth. Capsule sessile, with 3 very prominent laterally 
compressed lobes or cells, which open loculicidally. Seed suborbicular, laterally much com- 
pressed and narrowly winged, vertically imbricated in a double series. Embryo slender, 
cylindrical, a little curved in the axis of fleshy albumen. The Mexican genus Bessera most 
resembles this, but it differs in the very short tube of the perianth, in the tube of filaments having 
only a short tooth between the filaments, and in the form of the capsule. 
MILLA BIFLORA, Cav. Іс. 2, p. 16, t. 196, ег Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 478. М. cerulea, Scheele in 
Linnea, 25, p. 260. On the Rio San Pedro, Sonora; Schott, Thurber. No. 1913, Wright. 
Scape 1-3-flowered. Bulb subglobose, clothed with light brown scales. Our plant wholly 
resembles Mexican specimens collected by Dr. Halsted and others. | 
ECHEANDIA TERNIFLORA, Ortega; Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 627. Var.? ANGUSTIFOLIA: foliis 2-4 lin. 
latis, pedicellis infra medium articulatis; ovarii loculis sub-16-ovulatis. Copper Mines, New 
Mexico ; rocky places near the mouth of the Pecos, and near Rock Creek, July—August; Bigelow ; 
(No. 69 and 1912, Wright.) Cretaceous hills and ravines near the Pecos; Schott. Monterey, 
Mexico; Dr. Edwards. New Mexico, Fendler, No. 851. Root a fascicle of thick fleshy fibres. 
Leaves usually less than 3 lines wide. Stem scapiform, 14-3 feet long, very slender, often nearly 
simple above, but more commonly somewhat paniculately branched, the branches erect. Flowers 
2-4 or more together in fascicles; the terminal ones racemose and mostly solitary. Pedicels 
jointed about one-third their length from the base. The expanded perianth about three-fourths 
of an inch in diameter, orange-yellow; segments narrowly oblong, with closely approximated 
nerves along the middle. Stamens scarcely half the length of the perianth; filaments roughened 
with short, obtuse, somewhat retorse teeth; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary obovate, the cells 
with about 16 anatropous ovules in a double series; stylefone-third longer than the stamens, 
filiform ; stigma minutely 3-lobed, ciliolate-papillose. Capsule oblong-obovate, obtuse, 3-lobed, 
thin. Seeds angular, black. E. terniflora differs from our plant in the leaves being 6-7 lines 
wide, the pedicels jointed in the middle and the more numerous ovules (23-24 in each cell of 
the ovary.) : 
* ^ - 4: t 2 5: v 4 ы Ж / 
7 ow 2 ^ LA a A tin, С ^ 
* of. £w “х ғ. I — зоог РР s = Ё 27) , 
