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2.4 cm. broad, the nerves conspicuously pilose beneath; petioles 2 to 
4 mm. long, pilose: strobiles globose or short-oblong, about 1 cm. long. — 
GUANAJUATO, mountains of Santa Rosa, April, 1901 (A. Dugés.) 
Vv. — DIAGNOSES AND SYNONYMY OF MEXICAN AND 
CENTRAL AMERICAN SPERMATOPHYTES. 
By J. M. Greenman. 
Echeandia Pringlei, n. sp. Roots fascicled, tuberiform ; the tuber- 
ous portion 1 to 2 em. long, 5 to 7 mm. in diameter : leaves chiefly 
radical, 1 to 4 dm. Jong, 2 mm. broad, about 9-nerved, glabrous on both 
surfaces, more or less involute, hirtellous-ciliolate-margined, firm in 
texture, yellowish in the dried state, sometimes falcate ; the fibrous portion 
of the bases of the older leaves persistent around the base of the scapi- 
form stem: scape simple or branched, 2.5 to 4 dm. high, bearing 1 to 3 
leaf-like bracts: floral bracts lance-ovate, acute, scarious: flowers two in 
_ the axil of each bract; pedicels 5 to 10 mm. long, jointed below the 
_ middle: perianth white; divisions lanceolate, about 1 em. long, 1.5 to 2.5 
mm. broad, acute, 3-nerved: stamens nearly or quite as long as the 
perianth-divisions ; anthers united into a tube 6.5 to 8 mm. in length: 
capsule oblong, 6 mm. long, transversely nerved. — Mexico. State of : 
Jalisco: Etzatlan, collection of 1903, C. G. Pringle, no. 11,852 (hb. Gr.)- 
Sisyrinchium macrophylium, n.sp. Erect, 4 to 6 dm. high, gla- 
brous throughout: roots long, fleshy, almost tuberous: stems narrowly 
winged, leafless to the first fork, branched above into a several-headed 
inflorescence : leaves lance-attenuate, 5 to 6 dm. long, 1 to 5 em. broad, 
acute, prominently nerved, narrowly subcartilaginous-margined : bracts of 
stem and inflorescence lance-acuminate, 8 cm. or less long: peduncles in 
fruiting specimens 5 to 8 cm. in length; spathes 2-5-flowered ; valves 
lanceolate, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, acute, the outer slightly shorter than the 
inner: capsules oblong, triangular, 1.2 to 2 em. long, one half as broad, 
glabrous : seeds subspherical, 2 mm. in diameter. — Mexico. State of 
San Luis Potosi: Alvarez, 28 September to 3 October, 1902, Dr. 
Edward Palmer, no. 205 (hb. Gr. and hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 
_ Phoradendron-Palmeri, n. sp. Pubescent throughout; younger 
parts subtomentose: stem and branches terete: 1 
oblong-spatulate, 1 to 3.5 em. long, 3 to 8 mm, broad, obtuse, entire, 
narrowed below into a subpetiolate base : spikes of fertile flowers solitary, 
eaves narrowly oblong oF 
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