a 
168 Robinson and Greenman—Meuxican Plants. 
on the Sierra de San Felipe, Oaxaca, altitude 7,500 feet, 13 August, 
1894 (No. 5672). The segments of the perianth are deep purple, 
almost black, but sometimes tipped with yellow. 
ANTH omum. Root-fibers numerous, long, simple, 
enlarged and fusiform near their ends: base of the stem sur- 
less, 6 inches to a foot high: bracts scarious, attenuate, the lower 
6 to 8 lines long: inflorescence a simple or branched raceme, 1} 
cel 
to 8 inches long: i 
Gal., Bull. Acad. Brux. ix, 380 (reprint, p. 9). Asagraea? tenut- 
Jolia Kunth, Enum. iv, 700. This species, now rediscovered by 
Mr. Pringle, proves quite distinct from S. officinale Gray, with 
which it has been united by recent authors. The original descrip- 
tion may be supplemented as follows: Caudex erect, cylindrical, 
4 to 10 inches long, surrounded by a dense envelope of dark fibers: 
leaves linear, attenuate, 2 feet or more in length, 3 lines in breadth, 
about 1l-nerved: naked scape 6 to 8 inches high, terete, smoo 
inflorescence dense, 3 to 4 inches long: bractlets broadly ovate, 
21 August (in fruit), 1894 (No. 5857). 
