Plants Collected in Paraguay. 239 



tube inside. Petals oblong, subspatulate, retuse, mucronate, and 

 with the ovary and pedicels slightly glandular pubescent. 



Sisyrincliium micrantliiiin, Cav., Diss., vi, 144, 1. 191, f. 2. 

 Asuncion (63). October-November. = Balansa 552, 552 a, and 



556. 



A small species 7-12 cm. high, with many stem-s from the fibrous 

 roots, very glabrous. Leaves linear ensiform, 3-5 cm. long and 

 1-2 mm. broad. Perianth 6 mm. long, the segments obtuse and 

 cuspidate at the apex, yellow, with 3-5 light purple sunken lines 

 within, and 2 small purple spots at the base. Stamens united for 

 their whole length, the anthers enclosing the 3 stigmas. Flowers 

 on capillary pedicels, 3-7 springing from the same spathe. Abund- 

 ant in grassy plats near the Recolleta Cemetery at Asuncion. 



SisyrincUiimi vaginatiim, Spreng. Syst., i, 166. 



Caballero (468). January. 



Stem very slender, 25-30 cm. high, dichotomously branching, 

 bearing only sheathing bracts 10-15 mm. long. Spathes 1-flowered. 

 Flowers yellow, glabrous ; pedicels capillary, scarcely as long as the 

 spathe, glabrous. Among grass on the campo. 



AMARYLLIDE^. 



Zeptiyrantlies Bakeriana, Morong, n. sp. 



A delicate plant rising from an underground tunicated bulb. Bulb ovoid, 

 1|— 2 cm. in diameter, the tunics fuscous and the neck 5 mm. long. Scape 

 and leaves from a pair of membranous radical sheaths, which are fuscous and 

 warty at the tips. Leaves 1-4, much longer than the scape, produced with 

 the flowers, linear, 2 mm. broad. Scapes 10-12 cm. high, glabrous, slender, 

 erect or slightly declined. Flowers solitary, large and showy ; tube none or 

 minute ; perianth segments 3-4 cm. long, elliptical, about equal, pointed at 

 the apex, membranous, yellowish-whUe, with many purple stripes. Stamens 6, 

 3 scarcely more than one-half as long as the others ; filaments separate to the 

 base and epigynous ; anthers versatile, curved upwardly when dry, the cells 

 confluent. Style longer than the stamens, slightly dilated at the apex and 

 divided into 3 stigmas. Capsule obovoid, scarcely lobed. Pedicel nearly or 

 quite' 2 cm. long. Spathe about 2^ cm. long, tubular in the lower half, the 

 upper open part bifid. 



. On the Gran Campo, about 5 miles east of Asuncion (254). 

 December-January. 



