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SisyrinchiuDi inaritiinuni 



Rootstock short, ascending or somewhat horizontah plants 

 tufted, about idm. high: foliage bright green; larger leaves 

 slightly surpassing the scapes, blades 3-5mm. wide, firm, rather 

 prominently about 6-nerved, margins slightly hyaline: scapes 

 I dm. high or less, bearing two or three branches, often 3mm. 

 wide, broadly margined: spathe nearly twice the length of the 

 scapes; bracts unequal, the outer one 3cm, long, the inner one 

 about 2cm.: flowers one to several, the pedicels filiform, flexuous, 

 brownish, exserted about 1.5cm. from the bracts: perianth large, 

 almost 2 cm. across, deep violet, outer divisions obovate with 

 cuneate base, about icm. broad, 5-veined, the inner somewhat 

 narrower, broadly oblong or spatulate, 3-veined, all prominently 

 cyathiform-cuspidate and usually several notched; the tube at 

 the cur\^e of the throat of a deeper violet than the outer part of 

 the perianth, its base yellow, this yellow portion running up 

 into short, close fimbriate divisions, following the veins: stami- 

 nal column about 7mm. high: immature somewhat pyriform 

 capsules 3 mm. high. 



No. 6538, collected in wet clay intermixed with sand on the 

 beach between Point Pinos and Moss Beach near Pacific Grove, 

 Monterey county, California, April 8, 1903. It is a species re- 

 markable for its small stature and large handsome flowers. 



EBUUOPHYTON 



Saprophyte: perennial herb from branched creeping root- 

 stocks, whole plant white, leafless, merely scarious-bracted: flow- 

 ers white, few to many in a short raceme, almost sessile, readily 

 falling, segments ovate-lanceolate, the two lower ones larger than 

 the three upper, standing almost horizontally, their tips slightly 

 recurved, strongly keeled and somewhat concave on the outside; 

 the three upper segments spreading, erect, less strongly keeled 

 concave within; lip free, shorter than the perianth segments, 

 the saccate base with broad wing-like margins, jointed at the 

 middle, with a callosity on either side of the joint, this outer 



