392 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
(in U. S. Nat. Herb.).—A specimen from Mt. Orizaba, 3000 m., 
Aug. 5, 1891, H. E. Seaton, no. 180, is probably a reduced form of this 
species. — Flowers yellow according to Ghiesbreght’s label. Difficult 
to separate from #. reflera, except by purely habital characters. 
Var. formosa, n. var., foliis paucis (circa 4) caulis basin extremam 
vaginantibus patulis caule duplo brevioribus late linearibus circa 1 em. 
latis summum 2 dm. longis, caule simplice, pedicellis gracilibus, flori- 
bus magnis aureis, ceteris formae typicae. — Mrxico: State of Chiapas, 
near San Christobal, alt. 2100-2500 m., Sept. 18, 1895, Nelson, no. 
3143 (in U. 8. Nat. Herb. Sheet no. 233,087). — Flowers “rich yellow” 
according to Nelson’s note. 
6. E. REFLEXxA (Cav.) Rose. Leaves rather closely sheathing the 
base of the stem, broadly linear, 27-40 em. long, 1.5-2.2 em. wide, 
acuminate, membranous, the cross-veinlets prominent ; stem about 7 dm. 
tall, smooth, rather slender, bearing 2—3 foliaceous bracts, in the single 
specimen seen with two branches; pedicels jointed below the middle, 
in fruit 1.4-1.7 em. long; perianth-segments broad, 1.5 em. in length; 
filaments strongly roughened, at least in the young flower shorter 
than the anthers ; capsule (immature) oblong, 1 cm. long, 4 mm. wide. 
— Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. x. 93 (1906). Anthericum refleaum Cav. Ie. 
Pl. iii. 21, t. 241 (1795); Willd. Sp. PL. ii. 140 (1799). Echeandia 
terniflora Ort. Nov. Pl. Dec. 90, 135, & 136, t. 18 (1798) ; Redouté, 
Lil. vi. t. 813 (1812); Kunth, Enum. iv. 627 (1843); Baker, Joum. 
Linn. Soc. xv. 288 (1877), in part; Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot. mL 
_ 376 (1885), in part. Phalangium reflecum Poir. Encycl. Meth. Bot. ¥. 
249 (1804). Conanthera Echcandia Pers. Syn. i. 370 (1805) ; Link & 
Otto, Ic. Pl. Rar. 5, t. 3 (1828). — Mzxico : State of Morelos, ledges, 
Sierra de Tepoxtlan, near Cuernavaca, alt. 2300 m., August 22, 1906, 
Pringle, no. 10,289. — Although the form represented by Mr. Pringle’s 
plant here cited was the first of the genus to be collected, it seems not 
to be common. His specimen is the only one I have seen which, in 1t8 
combination of broad leaves, few-branched stem, yellow, rather broad 
perianth-segments, strongly roughened filaments and oblong capsules, 
agrees well with Cavanilles’s and Ortega’s plates. 
7. E. ranrovzata Rose. Stem tall, with 6-7 panicled branches, 
leafy above the base for about a third of its height, the leaves passiNs 
gradually into 3-6 reduced bracts; leaves membranous, with cros* 
veinlets, linear, long-attenuate at apex, up to 5 dm. long, 15-30 — 
wide; flowers rather large, yellow; perianth-segments 1.5 cm. long» — 
the outer oblong-linear, the inner ovate, 6 mm. wide; filaments cla- 
vate, strongly roughened, about equalling the anthers ; capsule not se 
— Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. x. 93 (1906). —Muxtco : State of Morelos — 
