ig Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
Nilgiri and Pulney Hill-Tops, i. 414 (1915) notes that this species 
is “ peculiar to these hills.” This fact suggests that the plant may 
appropriately be called A. Fysoni in recognition of the careful 
work of Prof. Fyson on the flora of its region. 
CLINnTONIA ALPINA (Royle) Kunth, var. udensis (Trauty. & 
Mey.), comb. nov. C.udensis Trautv. & Mey. Fl. Ochot. 92 (1856). 
In spite of the fact that Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 361 (1892) 
wrote (under C. alpina), “ the Chinese C. udensis, F. & M., hardly 
differs” and that Baker before him, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 585 
(1875) questioned (under C. udensis) “‘ An sit varietas mera Cs. 
alpinae ?”’ no one since seems to have compared the two plants 
with the idea in mind that possibly only one species is represented. 
Yet this seems to be the true situation if I may judge from the 
considerable herbarium material which is before me. In flower 
the specimens from the Orient may be distinguished from the 
Indian collections by the absence of the small bracts in the aa. 
ceme which are evident in the latter but caducous. In fruit the 
plants appear separable only on geographical grounds. Accord- 
ingly it seems desirable to regard the later described form of the 
Orient as merely representing a geographical variant of the plant 
from India. ; 
ILACINA AMPLEXICAULIS Nutt., var. glabra, var. NOV., rn 
bus foliisque viridibus, paullo glaucescentibus, glabris. — Easte 
Californi Oregon. — Catirornia: South Fork Kaweah hiv 
1872, Gray. OreGcon: Crater La 
Applegate, 709; Ashland Butte, July, 1886, Henderson. 12) 
This is the plant to which Hall in his Yosemite Flora 59 (19! x 
refers as follows under the description of S. amplexicaulis: a 
perfectly smooth and glabrous form (or species ?) occurs ae 
in Matterhorn Cafion and elsewhere in the Sierra Nevada. nee 
ever, so far as I can see (from herbarium material) the only ‘cuits 
ence between this high montane plant and the typical form of 
altitudes is its entire lack of pubescence. s. 
SMILACINA PURPUREA Wall., f. pallida (Royle), comb. (wall. 
pallida Royle, Ill. Him. i. 380 (1839). Jocaste purpure? 
Kunth, var. albiflora Kunth, Enum. v. 155 (1850). ja 
A series of specimens shows this plant to be only me 
flowered form of the typical purple-flowered state since the hed 
escence of the latter is often also quite simple rather than brane ae 
