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ORTHROSANTHUS NIGRORHYNCHUS Sp. n. 
Glabrous ; egg ine stout, purple; basal leaves distichous, 
spathes racemose, the peduncles solitary in the axils of the upper. 
leaves, shortly exserted ; spathes 2, ovate, acute, 1.5 cm. long, en- 
closing one or more scarious bracts and a single sub-sessile white 
flower, which is 2.5 cm. long, the ovary 1 cm. long, black, oblan- 
ceolate, truncate; capsule lanceolate, truncate, the summit blackish. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1074). 
Sisyrinchium junceum E. Meyer in Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 118. Vic. 
ochabamba, 1891 (1075) — Mandon's 1222. 
SISYRINCHIUM CRYPIOCARPUM Sp. n. 
Glabrous; stems densely tufted, the basal leaves, some longer, 
the flowers enclosed in scarious bracts with setaceous green awns, 
or the inner awnless; flowers not seen; capsule scarcely exserted, 
folded in the scarious bracts, black, obovoid, 4 or 5 mm. long. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1073). In the absence of flowers this 
is doubtfully referred to this genus, near S. filifolius. It is not im- 
possible that it is an Orthrosanthus, which the inflorescence-habit 
more closely resembles. If so, it is quite distinct from any other 
species. 
z AMARYLLIDEAE. 
Hiüppeastrum  Mandoni Baker, Handb. Amaryll. 49. Vic. Sorata, 
Nov., 1892 (1624) — Rusby's 2454. 
Bomarea distichyophylla (Herb.) Baker, Journ. Bot. 1882, 202. Be- 
tween Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1722) = Rusby’s 571 
and 574. 
VELLOZIA (XEROPHYTA) BOLIVIENSIS die sp. n. 
Stems short, slender, woody, covered downward with the per- 
sistent i pat lanceolate bases ‘of the old leaves; produced 
leaves many, crowded, narrow, linear, ascending, 6-9 in. long, 
especially upward; ova Ty s hon densely clothed with as- 
cending bristles; segments uis eater an inch long, 
