Hechtia reflexa L. B. Sm.

Hechtia reflexa L. B. vSraith, Contr Gray Herb. 117: 18. 1937.
Known from a fragment of the staminate plant only, 12 dm. high (! I,anglass6); leaves 4 dm. long, coarsely uncinate-serrate (! Langlasse); top of the scape terete, 5 mm. in diameter; scape-bracts linear-caudate from a small suborbicular base, 15 mm. long; inflorescence glabrous; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, equaling or slightly exceeding the sterile base of the branches; branches reflexed, up to 14 cm. long, very slender, simple or with a few short branches near the base, densely flowered, scarcely or not at all interrupted; floral bracts lance-elliptic, acute, barely shorter than the sepals, membranaceous; flowers spreading; pedicels slender, 0.5-0.7 mm. long; sepals triangular-ovate, acute, 1.5 mm. long, subhyaline, brownish with black spots, uniformly membranaceous; petals elliptic, obtuse, 2.5 mm. long, white; stamens exserted. Typb locality: Rocky slopes, San Salvador, Michoacdn or Guerrero, altitude 650 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type collection.