Plate 2505. 



ERYNGIUM PAUCISQUAMOSUM, llemsl 



Umbellifer.e. 

 E. paucisquamosum, IlemsL (sp. nov.) ; species elegans, gracillima, 



ex aftinitate E. Ghiesbregldii, a quo differt foliis crassioribus oblongis 

 crenatis, involucri bracteis numerosioribus contiguisque. 



Perenne, ut videtur stoloniferum, undique glabrum. Caul Is erectus, 

 gracillimus, 9-24 poll, altus, fere nudus, apice 3-5-cephalus. Folia 

 crassa, subcamosa, radicalia et caulina inferiora longe petiolata, oblonga 

 vel elliptica, absque petiolo H-lf poll, longa, basi leviter cordate, apice 

 rotundata, crenulata atque marginata, subtus conspicue venosa, petiolo 

 gracili 2-3 poll, longo ; folia pauca caulina superiora sessilia, angustiora, 

 semi-amplexicaulia. Capitula ssepius 3-5, subglobosa, 3-4 lin. diametro, 

 graciliter pedunculata, pedunculis lateralibus prope medium bibracteatis, 

 pedunculis terminalibus nudis. Involucri bractew 7-10, ssepius 9, 

 crassse,^ rigid®, oblongo-lanceolatse, 2-4 lin. longae, subacute, integra? 

 vel rarissime bidenticulatae, demum refiexse, cyanese. Pahce e basi lata 

 scariosa abrupte subulato-acuminatse, curvatse, flores superantes. 

 Fhres pauci, cyanei. Calycis dentes lanceolati, scariosi, apiculati, vix 

 rigidi, carpellis fequilongi. Carpella semiovoidea, (unum saepe abor- 

 tivum), absque calycis dentibus circiter |lin. longa, squamis paucissimis 

 instructs ; vittae 5, quarum 2 ad commissuram, minutissimse j styli 

 calycis dentes superantes, divaricate 



Mexico : mountains near Tlapancingo, at 6,000 to 8,000 ft., 

 Nelson, 2083 ; summit of Sierra Madre, at 9,000 to 10,200 ft., Nelson 

 2213. ' 



The specimens cited above are all in the United States National 

 Herbarium at Washington j and complete drawings of the specimens 

 under the former number are in the Kew Herbarium. These and 

 other specimens were lent, through the kind offices of Mr. J. N. 

 Rose, by the late Dr. G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, for my intended monograph of the Mexican 

 species of Eryngiv m ; the herbarium material being generally in great 

 need of revision.— W. Botting Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, a pale; 2, a fruit surmounted by the oal vx-lobes : 3. a meriearp showing 

 the narrow commissure ; 4, a petal ; 5, cross section of fruit, one carpel aborted,— 

 All enlarged* 



