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pubescent above: mature capsule 6 mm. long: seeds rugose. — Collected 
Rev. Lucius C. Smith at Cuatro Venados, altitude 2150 m., 27 June, 
1894, no. 64; by C. G. Pringle on hills above Oaxaca, altitude 1840 m., 
6 August, 1894, no. 5608, and in the same locality, 15 July, 1897, 
no. 6711. 
The species is readily distinguished from 7. holosericea, Kunth, by the 
narrower long-attenuate leaves and by the roseate flowers. : 
Tradescantia macrophylla. Stems 4 to 6 dm. high, pubescent: 
leaves lance-attenuate, 15 to 25 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. broad, pubescent 
upon either surface, ciliate; sheaths about 2 cm. long, somewhat in- 
flated, veiny, more or less pubescent: inflorescence a terminal spar- 
ingly branched, villous-pubescent panicle, 8 to 22 em. long; the lower 
divisions of the panicle 7 to 10 cm. long: flowers sessile or nearly 
so, in clusters of 3 to 5 flowers each: calyx glandular-pubescent: sepals 
navicular, oblong, nearly 5 mm. long, rounded at the apex, 3-nerved, 
margins scarious ; petals equalling or slightly exceeding the calyx, white, 
streaked with brownish veins, or in the bud pale blue, marcescent: ovary 
glandular-pubescent above: capsule 5 mm. long: seeds rugose, 3 mm. 
long. — Collected by C. G. Pringle on bluffs of a barranca near Cuerna- 
vaca, 26 July, 1896, no. 7224, and in the same locality, altitude 1538 m., 
21 August, 1897, no. 6695, 
A well marked species, readily recognized by the long leaves, the close 
inflorescence, and the white or whitish flowers. 
Anthericum platyphyllum. ? 7rachyandra echeandioides, 
Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. iii. 629, not A. echeandioides, Bak. Roots fascicled, 
fleshy-fibrous, 1 to 2 dm. long: caudex erect, 1 dm. or more high, sut 
rounded by a rather dense envelope of brownish fibres, the remnants of 
earlier leaves: leaves basal, narrowly lance-attenuate, 1.5 to 4 dm. long; 
12 to 24 mm. broad, pale or livid green, glabrous on either surface with 
an inconspicuous semi-transparent hirtellous margin: peduncle about 4 
dm. high, glabrous, terete, unibracteate, branching above into a racemose 
paniculate glabrous inflorescence, lateral branches of the panicle 3 he 
long: flowers 2 to 4 in the axils of short scarious bracts: pedicels 
3 to 12 mm. long, much exceeding the bracts, glabrous, jointed Just 
below the middle: perianth yellow, 2 cm. broad; divisions oblong, 
obtuse, 10 to 12 mm. long, 3-nerved, the inner slightly larger: stamens 
equal; filaments muricate; ‘anthers oblong-linear, about 3 mm. long: 
capsule oblong, triangular, 1 cm. long, strongly reticulate-nerved : seeds 
angulate, black. — Collected by C. G. Pringle on dry limestone ledges 
near Tehuacan, altitude 1540 m., 29 July, 1897, no. 6680. 
