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flowers small, 1 cm. or less in diameter: sepals oblong, somewhat 
navicular, 4 to 6 mm. long, glabrous: petals ovate or subrotund, 5 to 
6mm. long and broad, deep purple: stamens 6, equal; filaments bearded ; 
anthers uniform: capsule oblong, obtusely triangular, 5 mm. long, 
hirtellous-puberulent above. — Mexico. State of Morelos: Sierra de 
Tepoxtlan, near Cuernavaca, altitude 2300 m., 11 September, 1900, 
C. G. Pringle, no. 9250 (hb. Gr.). 
: This species belongs to the section Hutradescantia, and is seem- 
may most nearly related to 7. Karwinskyana, Roem. & Schult., and 
r. linearis, Torr. The writer takes pleasure in dedicating the species 
to Sefior Dr. Manuel Urbina, Director of the National Museum, City 
of Mexico. 
: Zygadenus mohinorensis. Bulbs scaly-fibrous coated, about 2 cm. 
in diameter: scape 10 dm. high, commonly bearing 2 remote leaves: 
basal leaves, 5 to 6 dm. long, 10 to 14 mm. broad, attenuate to an 
obtuse tip, dark green and glabrous on both surfaces: inflorescence 3 to 
4dm. in length, branched below ; branches erect, subappressed against 
the main axis; bracts of the inflorescence conspicuous, green or purplish, 
exceeding the 0.5 to 2 em. long pedicels: flowers white or greenish- 
white, about 2 em. in diameter; perianth-divisions oblong, 10 mm. long, 
5 to 7 mm. broad, bearing at their base an obcordate or somewhat 
Y-shaped erose-margined gland: stamens included, equalling the style- 
branches, about one-half as long as the perianth-segments: mature fruit 
not seen.— Mexico. State of Chihuahua: Mt. Mohinora, 1 September, — 
1898, E. W. Nelson, no. 4875 (hb. Gr., and hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 
This species is most nearly related to Z. elegans, Pursh, but differs in 
the somewhat larger flowers, the more conspicuous and longer bracts of 
the inflorescence, and in the nature of the glands at the base of the 
perianth-segments. 
Veratrum caLirornicum, Durand, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. Ser. 
II. iii. 103 ; Watson, Bot. Calif. ii. 182. The geographical range of this 
species is extended considerably southward by the collection of excellent 
specimens in the Sierra Madres near Colonia Garcia, State of Chihuahua, 
Mexico, altitude 2450 m., 7 August, 1899, Townsend § Barber, no. 
235 (hb. Gr. ). 
Anthericum drepanoides. Roots fleshy-fibrous, sometimes tuber- 
ous, fascicled, crowned by a collar of brownish fibres 2 to 3 cm. in length, 
the remains of the bases of the older leaves: assimilating leaves rosulate, 
about 9, lance-attenuate, 0.5 to 1.5 dm. long, 8 to 18 mm. broad, acute, 
conspicuously ciliate on the subcartilaginous margins, more or Jens com: 
