



128 CUNTEiBUTiONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



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DEANEA, NEW AND OLD SPECIES. 



Deanea arguta Rose, pp. nov. 



Perennialj 50 to 60 cm. liigh, glabronP, f^lightly glaucous; biisal leaves 2 or 3 times 

 ternate; petioles pleiuler; leaflets ovate, small, sharply serrate, the terminal ones 

 more elongated, more or less cleft, glabrous except the roughened veins and margin; 

 stem leaves much reduced; pe(hm('le somethnes nearly 20 cm, long, occasionally sub- 

 sessile, not very stout; rays immenms, about equal, 2 to 4 cm. long; peilicels 2 to 3 

 mm. long; involucre wanting; iiivolu(^el bractlets few^ linear^ a little longer than the 

 pedicels; fruit oblong, 7 nmi. long, rounded at each end; wings about half as broad 

 as body; oil tubes in intervals 3 or 4; stylopodium low-tonical; seed face deeply 

 concave. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium iu>. 397662, collected by Dn K. ralmer at Alvarez, 

 Sau Luis Potosi, September 5 to 10, 1902 (no. 114). 



Deanea longipes Rose, sp. nov. * ' 



Perennial, 80 to 120 cm. high, simple below, glabrous; basal leaves much dissected, 

 glabrous; ultimate segments lanceolate, acuminate, doubly serrate, or cleft antl ser- 

 rat-e; stem kaves mu(4i smaller, eH})e(ually the uppermost ones; stipular sheath 

 enlarged; inflorescence somewhat variable, the umbels either sessile or on slender 

 peduncles 15 cm. long; involncral btacts 1 to several, leaflike, more or less toothed 

 or cleft; involucel bractlets linear, entire, much shorter than tlie pedicels; rays 5 to 

 6 cm. long; pedicels 9 to 12 mm. long; flowers purplish; fruit glabrous, oblong, 8 

 mm. long; seeds concave on the face; etylopodia conical. 



Collected by C G. Pringrle, at Trinidad, Puebla, August 5, 21, 1905 (no. 13496). 



Deanea pringlei Rose, sp. nov. 



Rootstock thick and tuberous; stems about one meter liigh, purplish, glaucous, 

 ghd)rousor slightly roughened above; basal leaves twice pinnate; leaflets lanceolate^ 

 duubly crenate, iiearly glabrous above, somewhat scabrous on the margin and veins; 

 petluncles slender; rays few, 3 to 5 cm. lojig, puberulent; pedicels 2 to 3 mnn long; 

 invohuTeof a single bract or wanHng; iuvolucels small, linear; stylopodia conical; 

 fruit 8 nnn. long, oblong, glabrous; oil tubes several in the intervals. 



Type U. S. National TTerbarium no. 396308, collected by C. 0. Pringle on hills 

 near Con tadero, Tlax(*ala, altitude 2,550 meters, August 27, 1901 (no. 8(>01), 



Resembling D, argnfa, but with differently shaped leaves, etc, 



Deanea purpurea Rose, sp. nov. 



Rootstock thick; stems 20 to 30 cm. high, green or if i^urj^lish dull, not at all 

 glaucous, with yhort rough ])ubescence throughout; basal leaves twice or thrice 

 ternate; i>eduncle roughish-pubescent; It^aflets ovate, pimp}y i-riMiate, roughish- 

 pubescent on botli surfaces; peduncles slender; rays 9 or less, 2 to 4 cm. long; pedi- 

 cels 2 to 3 jum. long; inv<ilucre wanting; involucel bractlets several, linear, longer 

 than tlie pedicels; stylopodia low, conical; fruit 8 mm. long, oblong, glabrous; oil 

 tubes S(?veral in the iptervals. 



Type TT. S, National Herbarium no. 453753, collected by J. N. Rose and Jos. H. 



Painter between Somoriel and Las Lajas, Hidalgo, August 5, 1905 (no. 9212); also 



collected by C. G. Pringle at Hacienda de Cuyamalova, Hidalgo, August 2, 1904 (no. 

 449). 



This species is nearest D. pringlcl, from which it differs in its rougher and not at 

 all glaucous flowers, more pubescent leaves, etc. 



Deanea (?) tolucensis (H. B. K.) Rose. 



Ferula tolucensis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. <fe Sp. 5: 12. pL 418, 1821. 



Peucedannm tolucense Hemsley, Biol, Centr. Am. 1; 570. 1881. 



This species, so long a desideratum in all our herbaria, has been frequently col- 



lected of late years and from seveial of the high mountains of central Mexico. An 



