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Jamaica by Swartz, and, presumably, it has not been seen in a 

 living state by any botanist during this long period, a striking 

 illustration of the extremely local distribution of some West 

 Indian species. 



It would appear that the plant was correctly referred to the 

 Bromeliaceae at its original description ; as Mr. Baker remarks, 

 it is allied, at least in habit, to Tillandsia utriculata L., though 

 he places the two in different subgenera. In floral structure it 

 differs from both his subgenera Platystachys and Cyathophora 

 by having a pair of scales at the base of each corolla-segment, 

 and in this feature agrees with his subgenus Vriesia, a group 

 regarded by Professor Mez as of generic rank. 



As shown by the specimens collected by Mr. Harris, the inflo- 

 rescence is about 1.3 meters high, floriferous from about the 

 middle, the lower panicle-branches up to 3 dm. long, the lower 

 bracts of the scape lanceolate, 1-1.5 dm. long, long-acuminate; 

 the basal leaves are narrowly lanceolate, 6-8 dm. long, 4-6 cm. 

 wide and very long-acuminate, glabrous and finely many-nerved; 

 the flowers are sessile and quite widely separated on the slender 

 branches of the inflorescence, their bracts ovate-lanceolate, 

 acutish, about i cm. long; the linear sepals are 2 cm. long, and 

 the thin parallel-veined petals 3 cm. long, linear-lanceolate and 

 acuminate, about one-fourth longer than the stamens. 



The capsule was described by Mr. J. G. Baker as at least 

 twice as long as the calyx. 



JMew York Botanical Garden. 



LOCAL FLORA NOTES— VHP 



By Norman Taylor 

 Species Specimens wanted from 



Cruciferae 

 Arahis hirsuta (L.) Scop. Northern N. J. and N. Y. 



Cardamine pratensis L. N. J. or elsewhere in the range. f 



* Continued from Bull. Torrey Club 37: 559-562. N 1910. 

 fThe local flora range as prescribed by the Club's Preliminary Catalogue of 1888 

 is as follows: All of the state of Connecticut; Long Island; in New York the 



