168 Robinson and Greenman—Meuican 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. 
ANTHERICUMLEUCOcoMUM. Root-fibers numerous, long, simple, 
enlarged and fusiform near their ends: base of the stem sur- 
rounded by persistent fibrous remains of earlier leaves: radical 
leaves 8 to 12, lance-linear, 3 to 4 inches long, 3 to 4 lines broad, 
acute, entire, narrowed at the base, conspicuously and densely 
white-pilose upon both surfaces, 13-15-veined; margins ciliated : 
stem somewhat compressed, pilose at least toward the base, leaf- 
less, 6 inches to a foot high: bracts scarious, attenuate, the lower 
6 to 8 lines long: inflorescence a simple or branched raceme, 14 
to 8 inches long: pedicels 2 to 4 lines long, articulated in 
the middle: flowers usually 3 in each bract; perianth yellow ; 
divisions oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, 6 lines long: fila- 
ments smooth: capsule short-oblong, 34 lines in length, glabrous. 
—Collected by C. G. Pringle, in Oaxaca, 1894 (No. 4783), and 
by L. C. Smith, at Cuilapan, Oaxaca, altitude, 6,000 feet, 27 June, 
1894 (No. 63). : 
SCHENOCAULON TENUIFOLIUM. Veratrum tenuifolium Mart. and 
Gal., Bull. Acad. Brux. ix, 380 (reprint, p. 9). Asagreea ? tenui- 
folia 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, 
smooth upon the surfaces, obscurely or obsoletely denticulate, 
about 1l-nerved: naked scape 6 to 8 inches high, terete, smooth: 
inflorescence dense, 3 to 4 inches long: bractlets broadly ovate, 
obtuse, scarious, shorter than the sessile flowers : divisions of the 
perianth obovate or sub-rotund, 7—9-nerved, green tipped with 
red, 24 lines long; margins erose: fruiting spike very broad, 2 
inches in diameter, fertile only near the base: valves 6 to 8 lines 
long.—Collected by C. G. Pringle, on summit ridges, Sierra de 
San Felipe, Oaxaca, altitude 10,200 feet, 22 May (in flower) and 
21 August (in fruit), 1894 (No. 5857). 
