rLATE 2543. 



ERYK GIUM KEPT ANS, Ilemsl 



Umbellifer.e. 



E. reptans, HemsL (sp. nov.) ; habitu E. naxturliifolii, a quo differt 

 foliis dentatis vel serratis, nee lobatis, capitulis globosis ecomatis. 



Perenne, glabrura, caulibus paucis gracilibus procunibentibus, 2-5 

 poll, longis. Folta radicalia obovato-spatulata, argute serrata atque 

 aculeata, sed vix rigida, caulina minora ovalia vel obovata. Capitnla 

 lateralia, solitaria, brevissime pedunculata, hemisphserica, cum bracteis 

 patentibus 5-8 lin. diametro. Involucri bractece 6-8, lanceolate, 

 integrse, rigidre, pungentes. Palem angustse, pungentes, flores paulo 

 superantes. Cahjcis dentes abrupte apiculati. Carpella oblonga, 

 absque calycis dentibus \-\ lin. longa, squamis parvis globosis vel 

 ovoideis supremis subacutis omnino vestita ; vittse 9, quarum 2 com- 

 missural, minutse ; styli erecti, calycem superantes. 



Guatemala : Quezaltenango, Bernoulli & Carlo, 2745. 



This is represented in the Kew Herbarium by two small plants, and 

 in the Berlin Herbarium by one from the same collectors. It is not 

 closely allied to any species. — W. Botting Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, a bract ; 2, a pale; 3, a fruit ; 4, a carpel ; 5, a transverse section of the 

 same. All enlarged. 



