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attachment slightly enlarged; fruiting inflorescence elongated, 
pedicels recurved, less than 1 em. long; pods pendent, sessile, 
p glabrous, globose, about 4 mm. in 
^ diameter; styles 1-2 mm. long; sep- 
3 i tum rather dense, nerved, areolae 
| Bs not tortuous; ovules 2-3 in each 
( v cell, funiculi short, attached to sep- 
s Jw 4g tum for about one-half their lengths; 
ie | \ iJ seeds not strongly flattened nor 
\ ( N VJ winged. 
EX | f Distribution: State of Puebla, 
YN AY q y Mexico. 
Mr & V^ Specimens examined: 
NC OX V) Mexico: 
SN Puebla: collected in the vicinity 
of San Luis Tultitlanapa, near Oax- 
aca, July, 1908, Purpus 3389 (Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb., TYPE, and U. S. 
; Nat. Herb.); near Tehuacan, Aug. 
PR. eae. eMe, d Habit 30-Sept. 81905, Rose, Painter & 
Rose 10027 (U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
This species is quite similar in appearance to L. Schaffneri 
and a casual comparison might fail to separate them. L. Schaff- 
neri normally seems to develop a rosette, while the other plant 
does not; the rays of the stellae in L. pueblensis are free for about 
half their lengths, but in the related plant they are united nearly 
or quite to their apices; in L. Schaffneri the pedicels are usually 
sigmoid and the pods erect, in L. pueblensis the pedicels are re- 
curved and the pods pendent. "The ranges of the two Species, 
as far as collections made up to the present time show, are well 
separated. L. pueblensis, so far as now known, is the southern- 
most North American species of the genus. 
18. L. recurvata (Engelm.) Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 23: 253. 
1888; Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2: 18. 1891; Wats. in 
Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 1': 119. 1895; Heller, Contr. Herb. 
Franklin & Marshall College 1:40. 1895; Small, Fl. Southeastern 
U. S. 470. 19083, ed. 2, 470. 1913. 
