Davis + DELPHINIUMS OF NORTH AMERICA. 453 
sepals oblong; upper petals narrow, obtuse or retuse; lower 
petals bifid: carpels 3, puberulent at first. Oaxaca (f). 
Var. Hemsleyi Hutu, Bot. Jahrb. 20: 453. 1895. 
Spurs distinctly 2-lobed at the end (f). 
47. D. Ehrenbergi Hutu, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1: 336. ¢. 
ie fe.2s. S93. 
Stem simple, succulent, very leafy, 1 to 2 feet high; petioles 
long with dilating bases: leaves 3-5-parted, cut into many ob- 
long or linear lobes: racemes few-flowered, pedicels erect, lower 
ones I to 2 inches long: flowers blue; spurs straight, equalling 
the sepals, which are oval, pubescent; upper petals yellow with 
blue tips, lower ones 2-lobed, sparsely bearded, appendiculate 
at base: follicles 3, erect, pubescent. Near El Cerro, Mex. (f). 
48. D. pedatisectum Hemst. Diagn. Pl. Nov. 2: 18. 1879. 
Stem branching, branches smooth: leaves 3-7-parted, parts 
scarcely lobed, puberulent: flowers blue, on long, slender, 
puberulent pedicels; bracts and _ bractlets linear-subulate ; 
sepals oblique-oblong; upper petals deeply 2-lobed, much 
shorter than the spur, lower petals 2-lobed, bearded, appendi- 
culate at base; stigmas glabrous: follicles 3, tomentose when 
young; styles long. Mexico. Specimen at Kew (f). 
49. D. latisepalum Hens. Diagn. Pl. Nov. 2: 17. 1879. 
Plant pubescent or villose: stem nearly simple: leaves 5- 
parted; the parts of the basal leaves again 3—5-lobed, parts of 
stem leaves nearly linear: flowers few on slender pedicels; 
spurs slightly curved, nearly equalling the sepals; sepals vil- 
lose; upper petals narrow, slightly 2-lobed at the points; lower 
petals not appendiculate, deeply 2-lobed, much bearded on both 
sides; stamens glabrous: follicles 3, clothed with white 
pubescence when young. 9,000 feet. Mt. Tanga, Oaxaca, 
Mex. Specimen at Kew (f). 
50. D. tenuisectum GREENE, Erythea, 2: 184. 1894. 
Root thick, woody, deep: stem 2 to 3 feet high, simple or 
little branched, not very stout, sulcate above: plant finely 
pubescent throughout, leafy: leaves very finely dissected into 
linear segments, the lower stem leaves on rather long petioles 
dilated at base: racemes about 8 inches long, loosely flowered, 
pedicels very slender, nearly erect, upper ones not longer than 
