. Contributions from the National Herbarium. Plants; Plants. ROSE]âMEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN PLANTS. S9 Beaucarnea pliabilis I Baker Rose. Dasylirion pliabile Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 18:240. 1881. /;. pliabilis has heretofore only been known from Schott's specimen collected many years ago al Sisal, Yucatan. In 1902 Mr. I'.. A. Goldman collected leaves and photographs of this species al Progreso nol far from Sisal. These indicate a species closel) related to B. gualemalensis, bu1 the leaves are shorter and perfectl) smooth and evidently belong to a quite distinct plant. Collected by E.
. Contributions from the National Herbarium. Plants; Plants. ROSE]âMEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN PLANTS. S9 Beaucarnea pliabilis I Baker Rose. Dasylirion pliabile Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 18:240. 1881. /;. pliabilis has heretofore only been known from Schott's specimen collected many years ago al Sisal, Yucatan. In 1902 Mr. I'.. A. Goldman collected leaves and photographs of this species al Progreso nol far from Sisal. These indicate a species closel) related to B. gualemalensis, bu1 the leaves are shorter and perfectl) smooth and evidently belong to a quite distinct plant. Collected by E. L Goldman al Progreso, Yucatan, February 24 to March 5, L901 â no. 607, photograph no. 2211 Beaucarnea purpusi Rose. Bp. QOV. Tree 6 to 8 meters high, somewhat swollen ai base, a little branched, the trunk almost completely clothed by the reflexed and closely appressed old leaves; leaves at first erect, then spreading, and at last reflexed, long-persisting, very pale, 50 to tit) cm. long, 1" to 12 mm. broad, the margin pair and entire. Type specimen U. S. National Herbarium n<». 453659, collected by J. N. Rose and Jos. II. Painter near Tehuacan, Puebla, in 1905 (no. 10156 . Beaucarnea recurvata Lemaire. [llust. Hortic. 8: Misc. 59. 1861. Beaucarnea recurvata was introduced into cultivation from Mexico about 1845, but the station from which it was obtained i- not known. The specimen cited under this name in the Biologia Centrali-Americana belongs to a true Nblina, N. atia- miranoana. Beaucarnea stricta Lemaire, [llust. Hortic. 8: Misc. 61. 1861. Beaucarnea stricta is a glaucous-leaved species, only known from garden speci- mens. It is of ten confused with Nolina hartwegiana and B. recurvata. Beaucarnea glauca, another garden plant, may or may not belong here. After excluding the species belonging to Nolina and Beaucarnea eleven species still remain belonging are not very well known. Below is given a list of them with the descrip- tion of one that is ne
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