394 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
veined, scabrous-ciliate on the margins, elsewhere smooth, 1.5-2 (2.5) 
mm. wide, 1-3 dm. long; stem 2.7-6 dm. high, slender, glabrous, 
simple, bearing 3-6 bracts ; pedicels jointed near the base, in fruit 
10-14 mm. long ; filaments moderately roughened, shorter than the 
anthers ; capsule oblong, 3-3.5 mm. wide, 7 mm. long — Proc. Am. 
. Acad. xl. 28 (1904).— Mexico : State of Jalisco, dry calcareous hills 
above Etzatlan, 2000 m., 24 Oct., 1904, Pringle, no. 8812; grassy 
plains near Guadalajara, 1500 m., 4 Oct., 1903, Pringle, no. 11,715; 
hillsides of Zapotlan, alt. about 1500 m., Aug. 8, 1905, P. Goldsmith, 
no. 122; near Htzatlan, Oct. 2, 1903, Rose & Painter, no. 7544 (in 
U.S. Nat. Herb.). 
ExcLupep SpEctes. 
oe E. eleutherandra K. Koch, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. App. 4 (1861)= 
“ Anthericum echeandioides, ace. to Baker. 
E. graminea Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brax. ix. 387 (1842)= 
Anthericum leptophyllum. 
E. leptophylla Benth. Pl. Hartw. 25 (1840) = Anthericum leptophyl- 
lum. 
E. scabrella Walp. Ann. iii. 1010 (1853) = Anthericum scabrellum. 
/ #. pusilla Brandegee, Univ. Cal. Pub. Bot. iii. 377 (1909) = form of 
Anthericum leptophyllum. 
Il. SPERMATOPHYTES, NEW OR RECLASSIFIED, CHIEFLY 
RUBIACEAE AND GENTIANACEAE. 
By B. L. Roprnson. 
Ranunculus trisectus Eastwood, n. sp.,1 glaber vel paulo pilosus 
1-2 dm. altus simplex vel 2-3-ramosus, ramis ascendentibus ; foliis 
radicalibus orbicularibus trisectis, diametro 2-3 cm., basi reniformt- 
bus cum sinu saepissime angusto ; segmentis approximatis, medio inte 
cuneato, lateralibus inaequaliter bipartitis, superiore parte trilobata 
majore ; omnibus lobulis similibus oblongis 2~3 mm. latis duplo long 
oribus, apice et basi callosis, sinubus obtusis ; petiolis striatis 
membranaceis dilatatis et persistentibus ; foliis caulinis 1-3 sessilibus 
vel breviter petiolatis 3-5-sectis, segmentis integris vel lobatis, ultumis 
lobulis oblongo-linearibus ad apicem et sinum callosis, basi petiolorum 
vel folioram membranaceo amplexicauli ; pedunculis altis, fructitens 
* This Species, elaborated by Miss Alice Eastwood from material in eo 
_ Gray Herbarium, is here published at her request. 
