Dear all The lastest edition of a major botanical journal, Novon volume 15 number 2, features three new species of popular genera. Abstracts of the articles follow. pp. 279-281: Calochortus mendozae Espejo, López-Ferrari & Ceja, a new species from the municipality of San Nicolás Tolentino in the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, is described and illustrated. The new species grows on gypseous soils in xerophytic scrub. Calochortus mendozae is placed in section Cyclobothra subsection Ghiesbreghtiani and is closely related to C. hintonii Bullock ex Ownbey, with which it is compared. pp. 324-326: A new species from Chile, Leucocoryne talinensis, is described and illustrated. It is known from Talinay and Fray Jorge in Limarí Province, from roadsides and adjacent fields. Its chromosome number and relationship to the most closely related species are discussed. pp. 354-357: Tigridia suarezii (Iridaceae, Tigridieae) is a new species from Mexico. Its distinguishing features are the dark purple, almost black color of the spreading tepal limbs and the white to cream floral cup with dark purple spots and stripes. It is morphologically similar to T. alpestris subsp. obtusa and T. venusta, from which it differs in the more robust habit of the plant, the shape, length, and width of the tepals, and the length of the anther, filament column, and style branches. Tigridia suarezii and T. venusta inhabit the understory in pine-oak forests in an altitudinal range from 2080 to 2800 m, whereas T. alpestris subsp. obtusa grows on exposed rocky slopes above 3000 m. Tigridia suarezii is known only from the state of Jalisco. And in Novon volume 15 number 1 pp. 168-172: Freesia marginata (Iridaceae: Crocoideae) is a new species from the Breede River valley near Worcester in Western Cape Province, South Africa. A local endemic of succulent karoo shrubland, it resembles F. caryophyllacea in its flowers and short, prostrate leaves, but it is distinguished from all other species of Freesia by the leathery, somewhat glaucous leaves with a prominent submarginal vein. The four species previously placed in the genus Anomatheca are recognized in Freesia as the new subgenus Anomatheca. Three of the species, F. grandiflora, F. laxa, and F. verrucosa, are segregated into section Anomatheca, and F. viridis is placed in the new section Alatae. Cheers Julian Slade