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Folia prelonga linearia subcanaliculata setaceo-acuminata pluri- 
nervia, margine cartilagineo-incrassata ciliolata-scabra ; bracteæ 
lanceolatee. Panicula thyrsoidea brevis lata multiflora. Sepala 
coriacea oblongo-lanceolata obtusa carinata viridia superne 
anguste rubello-membranacea. Petala oblongo-linearia longe 
attenuata in unguem, sepala 3-plo exeedentia. Glandule 
quadrate. Capsula ovata. 
A species very distinet in the very long basal leaves like those 
of a species of Carew: in the specimens I have found them as 
much as 32 centim. long. It further differs from A. gypso- 
philoides in the flower being twice as large with more obtuse 
sepals. 
Hab. South Armenia, between the villages of. Avzapert and 
Uzunbazar (not marked in maps). 
138. A. Rosonowsxir, Maxim. Fl. Tangutica, p. 87, t. 29 
(1889). 
Densissime pulvinata. Cæspites orbiculares 12 centim. lati, 
radici fusiformi longissime insidentes. — Cauliculi densissime 
eonferti teretes supra basin aggregato-ramosi, basi foliis emar- 
cidis dense obvallati, apice virides polyphylli. Folia eauliculi 
infima sub anthesi emarcida, in cauliculo sterili tamen virentia 
breviter in vaginam connata, sequentia sensim breviora et in 
vaginam altius connata, trinervia incrassato-marginata, omnia 
mucrone pungente distincto terminata, dorso carinata, margine 
crebre ciliata ; folia ramulorum florigerorum breviora, suprema 
bractealia Janceolato-linearia. Calyx basi incrassatus quasi 
gibbosus ; sepala lanceolata uni-subtrinervia. Petala elliptica 
acuta, calyce breviora. Stamina corolla breviora ; antheræ 
ochroleucæ. Glandulæ ovoideæ turgidæ. Ovarium globosum ; 
styli recurvo-adpressi. Ovula numerosa. , 
Affinis A. densissime, que tamen differt foliis recurvatis 
omnino glabris, flore terminali et axillari breviter pedicellato, 
sepalis ovatis quam petala spathulato-linearia duplo brevioribus, 
staminibus corollam superantibus, sty lis erectis. g 
Description verified from authentic specimens in H erb. Kew. 
Hab. W. Tibet: R. Yang-tze (1881). 
leonogr.— Mazim. l. c. 
