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base and blunt apex, 3 mm. long, with filiform ribs and long, flat (strap-shaped) 
styles. 
Cold summit slopes, Nevada de Toluea, State of Mexico, altitude 14,000 feet, Sep- 
tember 2, 1892. Pringle’s No. 4247 of 1892, 
This species is referred to Musineon, although it is widely separated geographically 
from the other species, which belong to the northern plain region. Its habit and 
general characters are those of the genus as already known, but the obsolete calyx 
teeth, two-parted carpophore, and peculiar styles, as well as the wide geographic 
separation, suggest a possible generic separation if supported by further Mexican 
material. The fact that it occupies the high mountain region of centrel Mexico 
makes its claim to be congencric with the northern forms more reasonable. 
Neogoezia Hemsley, Kew Bull. 1894, 354 (1894). 
The translation of Mr. Hemsley’s description, and his remarks concerning the 
establishment of the genus, are as follows: Calyx teeth prominent, colored. Petals 
broad, entire. Disk depressed or subconical. Fruit didymous, heart-shaped, scarcely 
compressed laterally, suleate at the commissure. Carpels almost terete, gibbous at 
base, striate with the superficial oil tubes: primary ribs almost obsolete: oil-tubes 
3 in the intervals, 4 to 6 on the commissural side, all very slender: carpophore 
entire. Seed subterete, deeply sulcate.—Glabrous Mexican herbs, perennial or bien- 
nial, secapose, with tuberous-fascicled roots. Leaves pinnately dissected, all radical. 
Umbels simple, solitary on a slender scape, with filiform pedicels. Involucral bracts 
numerous, linear. Flowers polygamous or unisexual; sepals purplish; petals deep 
yellow or lemon-yellow. 
“Dedicated to Dr, Edmond Goeze, inspector of the botanic garden at Greifswald, 
Pomerania, and formerly a fellow-student of the writer at Kew. The affinity of the 
genus is not obvious, as it is one of the very few genera, outside of the Heteroscia- 
diew, having simple umbels. In this character it agrees with Oreomyrrhis, in which 
two of the species were provisionally placed; but, as suggested by Mr. Rose, the 
characters of the fruit are rather those of the Smyrniex, and similar to those of the 
American genus Arracacia. 
“Through the courtesy of Mr. J. N. Rose, Assistant Botanist in the United States 
Department of Agriculture at Washington, we are able to establish this very dis- 
tinct and elegant genus of Mexican Umbelliferee, Two species were collected by 
Hartweg upward of fifty years ago, but only flowering specimens were obtained, 
Since then, so far as our knowledge goes, no other collector has met with any mem- 
ber of this genus until this year; and now Mr. C, G. Pringle has discovered, in the 
mountains above Oaxaca, What we have described as a third species. His specimens 
include almost ripe fruit, thus affording material for founding the genus. Hart- 
weg’s two species were provisionally published under the genus Oreomyrrhis, and 
are here transferred to Neogoezia.” 
Neogoezia gracilipes Hemsley, Kew Bull. 1894, 355 (1894); Oreomyrrhis graci- 
lipes Hemsley, Diag. Pl. Nov. pt. 1, 16 (1880). PLATE VII. 
Stems from a cluster of deep-seated tuberous roots, as in N. minor, 7.5 to 15 dm. 
high; petiole above the vaginate sheath very variable in length, sometimes nearly 
wanting, often 7.5 cm. long; leaflets generally close together along the rachis, some- 
times much separated, occasionally 7.5 em, or more; bractlets of the involucels rarely 
short and entire (as figured), but generally all or nearly all 3- to 5-toothed and 12 
to 18 mm. long; pedicels very numerous, in fruit 3.5 to 7.5 em. long; fruit rather 
variable, 4 to 6 mm, long, nearly orbicular to ovate, slightly cordate at base, some- 
times beaked. 
' Through the kindness of the Bentham Trustees and Mr. W. Botting Hemsley of 
Kew, we have received advance sheets of the two plates of Neogoezia and now 
reproduce them almost simultaneously with their appearance in Hooker’s Icones 
Plantarum. 
