Catopsis juncifolia Mez & Wercklé

Catopsis juncifolia Mez & Werckle; Mez, Bull Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 1124. 1904.
Plant slender, up to 23 cm. high; leaves many in a subbulbous rosette, 9 cm. long, not at all cretaceous; sheaths very large, ovate-elliptic, densely and minutely brown-punctulate-lepidote ; blades junciform-subulate, acuminate, 5 mm. wide at the base, obscurely pale-punctulate; scape erect, slender, terete, glabrous; scape-bracts exceeding the internodes; inflorescence sparsely bipinnate, lax, strict, composed of a terminal spike of about 10 flowers and 2 longstipitate lateral spikes of 2 or 3 flowers; primary bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, not attaining the lowest flowers of the axillary spikes; floral bracts suberect, very broadly ovale, obtuse, much shorter than the sepals, subcoriaceous, prominently nerved; flowers suberect, dioecious, only the pistillate known, about 4 mm. long, glabrous; sepals strongly asymmetric, obtuse; petals very broadly subelliptic, obtuse or retuse, barely longer than the sepals; stamens present in the pistillate flowers but sterile, the anthers mucronate; ovary pyramidal.
TvPB locality: Costa Rica.
DiSTRiBtrriON: Known only from the type locality.

Catopsis lundelliana L. B. Smith, Contr Gray Herb. 117: 6. 1937.
Plant 25-30 cm. high; leaves many in a dense subglobose rosette, 1 dm. long, densely and
obscurely punctulate-lepidote; sheaths narrowly ovate or elliptic, 15-30 mm. long, not at all
inflated; blades linear, acuminate, 5 mm. wide at the base, involute-subulate toward the apex
in drying; scape erect, very slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, exceeding the internodes,
lanceolate with an elongate linear acuminate blade; inflorescence laxly compound from 3 or 4
branches, 7-12 cm. long; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, shorter than the sterile
bases of the axillary branches; spikes divergent, straight, very laxly subtristiehous-flowered,
up to 95 mm. long; floral bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, thin, prominently nerved, much shorter
than the sepals, obscurely punctulate-lepidote ; flowers suberect ; sepals obovate, obtuse, strongly
asymmetric, 5 nun. long, thin, prominently nerved, obscurely pale-lepidote; petals barely ex-
serted, broadly elliptic, obtuse; stamens unequal; style short but distinct.
Type locality; Limestone valley, Valentin, El Cayo District, British Honduras. Distribution: Known only from the type collection.

Catopsis juncifolia is a plant species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Central America and southern Mexico.