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Plate 2425. 



NEO&CEZIA MINOR, Ilemsl 

 ITMBELLIFER.E. Tribe Smyrxe.e. 



Neogoezia minoi, Ilemsl in Kew BulL 189-i, p, 355; (descriptio 

 hie emendata) tuberibus elongatis cylindricis, scapis pluribus iiiterdum 

 usque ad 12 erectis vel fructiferis saepe deflexis, foliis longe petiolatis 

 pinnatis, rachi crassiuscula, pinnis oppositis sessilibus nunc confer- 

 tissimis deorsum sese obtegentibus nunc plus minusve sejunctis cir- 

 cumscriptione ovatis ssepius trilobatis lobis acute dentatis, petiolis 

 inter se vaginantibus supra vaginam vix vel baud productis, involucri 

 bracteis minutis subulatis, pedicellis numerosis gracilibus angustissime 

 angulatis, calycis dentibus minutis acutis, petalis ovato-oblongis apice 

 obtusis vel rotundatis, fructu late cordiformi, jugis primariis baud 

 prominentibus. 



Hab. South Mexico : mountains above Oaxaca, 9000 to 10,500 ft. 

 altitude, Priiigh (No. 4725) ; Cerro San Felipe, Oaxaca, NeUon (No. 



1418 A.). t r ^ \ 



Titbera 2-3 poll, longa. Scajn circiter 6-12 poll. alti. Folia absque 

 petiole 2|-5 poll, longa, medio 6-9 lin. lata, petiolis vaginantibus 

 U-3^ poll longis. Fedicelli 4-8 lin. longi. Fructus latior quam 

 longus, circiter 1^ lin. latus. 



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Mr. Rose communicated the following: interestinir note on this 



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species, which he received from Mr, C. G. Pringle : 



^ Neogmzia minor, Hemsley, presents a rosette of leaves which lie 

 close upon the surface of the soil (black humus) in little meadows and 

 flats along the creeks of the Sierra de San Felipe, 10,000 ft. elevation. 

 This mountain chain is the continental divide, at whose base on the 

 Pacific side, and some ten miles distant from, and 5,000 ft. below its 

 summit, is located the city of Oaxaca. The flowering peduncles of 

 this plant at anthesis rise 1 to 4 or 5 inches above the leaves, but in 

 fruit some of them recline on the ground, while others rise quite 

 erect.'— W. Botting Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, Male flower. 2. Calyx and ovary of pistillate flow.T. 3. Fruit, the 

 nionearps separating. 4. Transverse section df mericarp. All enlarge^. 



