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MEMOIRS OF THE XEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



broadly oval. Perigone scarcely declined, 3.5 cm. long, appar- 

 ently divided about half way to the base, the lobes 5 or 6 imn. 

 broad, acutish. Stamens unequal, the longest nearly twice as 

 long as the shortest, the anthers about 3 mm. long, strongly re- 

 curved. Style filiform, erect, 5 mm. longer than the longest fila- 

 ment, the linear branches recurved. Leaves fully formed at the 

 time of flowering. Flower pink. 



Among the grass on open pampa, near Lake Rogagua, 1,000 

 feet, M. Cardenas, November 1, 1921 {no. 1396). 



LEPIDOPHARYNX gen. nov. 



Tube of the perigone very short, clothed with scales ^\'ithin 

 at the summit. Perigone declined or deflexed at the base, the 

 segments elongated, linear, spreading. Petals and sepals simi- 

 lar, the petals narrower and slightly longer, the upper sepal and 

 two upper petals slightly longer than the others. Crown reduced 

 to a ring of scales in the throat. Stamens 6, a little shorter than 

 the longer petals, the alternate ones differing slightly in length. 

 Filaments dilated at the base, but distinct except where adnate 

 to the perigone tube. Anthers oblong, attached near the middle, 

 apparently versatile. Ovary wholly inferior, 3-celled, the ovules 

 anatropous, numerous, in two series in each cell. Style filiform, 

 exceeding the perigone. Stigma dilated upward, truncate, ob- 

 scurely 3-lobed. Capsule loculieidal. Seeds anatropous, very 

 numerous, triangular, vertically flattened. 



Bulb solid, tunicated. Leaves all radical, erect, oblanceolate, 

 appearing with the flowers or later. Scape naked, hollow. 

 Flowers in a terminal umbel, apparently always 4, diverging in 

 pairs. Involucre double, the outer of two lance-linear bracts, 

 which are at length reflexed, the inner of (always ?) 4, which are 

 narrower, and erect. Pedicels elongating during and after flow- 

 ering, the ovary at first more or less reflexed, becoming erect, 

 straight or at first somewhat curved. Flowers looking obliquely 

 or even directly downward, deep red, the lower portions some- 

 times greenish, the outer portions lighter red or orange. 



Genus near Elisena and at first mistaken for it, but all the 

 species of that genus have white flowers, with a distinct crown, 

 here represented by an irregular collection of scales in the 

 throat. 



Lepidopharynx deflexa 



Bull) ovoid, about 7 or S eni. long and nearly as broad, some 

 of the inner scales sliglitly pilose at base. Leaves to 3 dm. or 



