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and a round capsule. Our plant was mixed with S. Hohenackert 
in the Kew herbarium. 
AMARYLLIDACEAE 
Hymenocallis longibracteata Hochr. sp. nov. 
{e subgen. Huhymenocallis = Hymenocallis 
proper Baker Amaryll. 121. 3] 
Folia taeniaeformia, glabra, sessilia. Pedunculus foliis probabile 
brevio hae 
parum 
maximae, scariosae, interdum tubo corollae longiores. Tubu 
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Folium, quod vidi, ca. 45 x 1.4 cm. longum et latum. spa 
3 gi. Bracteae ad 12 cm. longae 
Tubus corollae 11-12 cm. longus et ultra; laciniae ad 10 
m. longae et 0.5-0.6 cm. latae. Filamenta filiformia ca. 5 cm. 
longa, anthera 1.5-2 cm. longa et 1-0.5 mm. lata. Cupula stami- 
i m. in diam. lata et ca.2cm.longa. Stylusca. 7 cm. 
cupulae staminalis marginem excedens. 
Mexico, Orizaba (Fred. Miiller, 18 Juin, 1853, sine no.), in 
Herb. N. Y. Bot 
This species is related to A. /acera Salish. and 7. galvestonensts 
Baker. It has, like both of them, linear leaves, but differs from 
Hf. lacera by its enormous bracts (Zacera has small bracts) and 
from 7. galvestonensts by its longer corolla-tube (galvestonensis 
has a tube 4-8 cm. long). 
Bomarea Holtonii Hochr. sp. nov. (e sect. Hudomarea) 
Caules sarmentosi, acute quadrangulares, glabri. es resu- 
pinata, lanceolato-oblonga, aliquantulum obtuse vel + acute acu- 
minata, basi attenuata, supra nitida, glaberrima, subtus = grisea, 
rm latati cu 1 
lucri eee bee foliis ee nonnullae tantam angustiores 
usque ad lineares. edunculos vidi 7; pedunculus quisque fere 
usque ad apicem eee 3-4 flores et totidem bracteas ovato- 
lanceolatas, apiculat as, quam involucrum minores, sed non resu- 
pinatas gerens ; flos quisque bracteae oppositus, pedicellatus; pedi- 
celli bracteis breviores, praecipue apice et basi glanduloso-pilosi. 
Ovarium obconicum, dense glanduloso-pilosum. Tepala aequi- 
