270 HARPER 



X. platylepis Chapm., Fl. 501. i860. 



Moist pine-barrens and sand-hill bogs; rather rare, coffee 



(1423), COLQUITT (194I), THOMAS (II74). Fl. July-Aug. 



Not observed elsewhere in the state. 

 South Carolina to central Florida, in the pine-barrens. 



X. sp. 



Chiefly in creek-swamps. A shade-loving species, with acute 

 spikes and dark bracts, coffee, berrien (1700), worth, 

 colquitt. Fl. Aug.-Sept. What seems to be the same thing 

 extends inland to Sumter County and coastward to the 

 vicinity of Okefinokee Swamp. 



X. neglecta Small, Bull. Torrey Club 21 :30c ii 

 (?) X. bulbosa minor Wood, Class-Book. 728. 1861. 

 coffee : Sand-hill ponds (1446) and moist pine-barrens {2013) 



Fl. summer. 

 Known otherwise from northeastern Florida and the pine- 

 barrens of Mississippi. 



X. ambigua Beyr. ; Kunth, Enum. 4 : 13. 1843. 



Montgomery: Branch-swamp near Mount Vernon, June 29, 

 1 903 , in flower (1863) . Discovered by Beyrich in Effingham 

 County. 

 North Carolina to northern Florida and Texas, in the pine- 

 barrens. 



X. brevifolia Mx., Fl. 1 :23. 1803. 



coffee: Rather dry pine-barrens and corresponding places 

 in the sand-hills, three or four stations. Fl. spring. More 

 common in the flat country toward the coast. 



North Carolina to central Florida, in the pine-barrens. 



MAYACACEJE. 

 MAYACA Aiibl., PI. Guian. 1 :\L 1775. 

 M. Aubleti Mx., Fl. 1:26. 1803. 



M. Michauxii Schott & Endl., Melet. 1 124. 1832. 



Moist pine-barrens and sand-hill bogs; not rare, emanuel, 



TATTNALL, MONTGOMERY, DODGE, COFFEE, WILCOX, IRWIN, 



