WEATHERBY. — SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS ECHEANDIA. 393 
near Hl Parque, Sept. 21, 1903, Rose & Painter, no. 844 (in U.S. 
Nat. Herb., sheets nos. 454,954 & 454,955). — No fruit of this species 
has been preserved, but its floral characters place it clearly very near 
£. reflewa. So far as the material at hand shows, it differs from that 
species only in its more leafy stem and more branched inflorescence and 
may very probably prove to be no more than a variety of it. — Here are - 
doubtfully placed the specimens from two collections of C. F. Gaumer 
namely from Yucatan, Izamal, Sept., 1895, no. 843 and Chicankanab, 
no. 1995 (the latter in Herb. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., sheet no. 58,793). 
These specimens have neither fruit nor good flowers and in their absence 
can hardly be placed definitely. They have mostly a much-branched 
inflorescence, several(7—8)-bracted stem and the leaves pass abruptly 
into the much reduced bracts. In this respect they differ from 
E. paniculata; and the branches of the inflorescence are more 
slender and the flower-buds smaller than in either that species or 
E. reflexa, although the plants are quite as robust. 
8. E. atprriora (Schlecht. & Cham.) Mart. & Gal. Leaves basal, 
Several, lanceolate-linear, narrowed to an acute apex, the principal 
nerves united by transverse veinlets, membranous, glabrous, about 36 
em. long, 1.8-2 em. wide ; stem scabrous or hirtellous below ; inflor- 
€scence paniculate ; pedicels slender, 10 mm. long, jointed below the 
middle ; flowers white ; perianth-segments lanceolate ; filaments re- 
trorsely papillose-crispate, equalling the anthers; capsule ?— Bull. 
Acad. Brax. ix. 386 (1842) ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 628 (1843). Conan- 
thera albiflora Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea, vi. 50 (1831). Echeandia 
leucantha Klotesch, fide Kunth, 1. c. —I have seen no material refera- 
ble to this species. The above description is taken chiefly from that 
of Kunth. : 
9. E. rtexvosa Greenman. Leaves firm, closely and prominently 
veined, suberect, minutely scabrous beneath, 2-5 mm. wide, variable 
in length (reaching 8 dm.), long-acuminate ; stem 9 dm. high or less, 
smooth, 2-3-bracted, the lower bract sometimes elongated and seta- 
ceous, reaching 15 cm. in length; pedicels jointed near or below the 
middle, rather stout, in fruit 12-16 mm. long; flowers rather large 
With lanceolate perianth-segments ; filaments moderately roughened, 
shorter than or nearly equalling the anthers ; capsule oblong, 6-9 mm. 
long, 3-4 mm. wide. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxxix. 73 (1903). — Mexico : 
State of Oaxaca, Mts. of Jayacatlan, alt. 1400 m., 10 Sept., 1994, 
Lucius C. Smith, no. 188. State of Jalisco, Rio Blanco, July, 1886, 
Palmer, no. 185 : bluffs of the barranca of Guadalajara, 1400 m., 19 
July, 1902, Pringle, no. 11,197. | 
— E. Prinaier Greenman. Leaves firm, closely and prominently — 
