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Fruit ovate or oblong, longer than broad, with a short 

 beak and rounded base; ribs thick and filiform. 



12. M. peticedanoides. 

 Fruit broadly ovate, broader than long, cordate at base, 



obtuse; ribs filiform 13. AI. cordata. 



Basal leaves with broader, shorter, more or less toothed leaflets. 

 Glabrous throughout; involucels present. 



Flowers purple 14. AI. reticulata. 



Flowers yellow 15. AI. dissecta. 



More or less scabrous or pubescent. 

 Involucels none. 



Leaflets elongated, linear, nearly entire. 



16. AI. s cab r ell a. 

 Leaflets ovate, serrate. 



Leaflets with sharp teeth 17. AI. serrata. 



Leaflets with obtuse teeth 18. AI. ovata. 



Involucels present 19. AI. pubescens. 



1. Museniopsis texana (Gray) C. & R. Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 123. 

 1888. 



Tauschia fgxmia Gray, PI. Lindh. 2: 211. 1850. 



Eulophus texanus Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. i: 882 and 885. 1867. 



VelcBa texana Vixwdi^, Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzfam. 38: 169. 1898. 



2. Museniopsis tenuifolia (Watson) C. & R. Contr. Nat. Herb. 3: 

 302. 1895. 



Eulophus temdfolius Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 23: 276. 1888. 

 Velcea tetiuifolia Drude, in Nat. Pflanzfam. 3*: 169. 1898. 



3. Museniopsis biennis C. & R., sp. nov. 



Biennials from fusiform tubers; stems slender, 4 to 12 dm. high, 

 branching above ; basal leaves with petioles 3 to 5 cm. long, twice 

 ternate, with ovate toothed leaflets ; upper leaves much reduced, often 

 with linear leaflets ; peduncles either wanting or short ; pedicels 4 to 5 

 mm. long; fruit obtuse, 2 mm. long, broader than long and cordate 

 at base. 



Michoacan : pine woods, hills of Patzcuaro, Pringle 4620, Octo- 

 ber 25, 1893. 

 Morelos : mountain woods above Cuernavaca, altitude 2400 meters, 



Pringle 6156, November 5, 1895. 

 In Contr. Nat. Herb. 3: 302. 1895, this plant was referred to 

 Smyr7iiu77i cegopodioides H.B.K. under the name Aluseniopsis cego- 

 podioides. 



4. Museniopsis madrensis C. & R., sp. nov. 



Biennials from a round or somewhat branched tuber ; stem slender, 

 erect, somewhat branched, 6 to 8 dm. high ; leaves twice to thrice 

 ternate, ultimate divisions usually 3-cleft, linearand entire; umbels of 



