Tap. 7435. 
ATRAPHAXIS Moscuxetowl1. 
~. Native of Central Asia. 
Nat. Ord. Potyconacez%.—Tribe EuroLyGonex. 
Genus Arrapnaxis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 96.) 
ATRAPHAXIs (Tragopyrum) Muschketowi ; frutex glaberrimus, ramis flexuosis, 
foliis 1-1j-pollicaribus oblongis obtusis crenulatis basi cuneatis v. rotun- 
datis pallide viridibus, nervis gracilibus arcuatis, stipulis ad medium 
connatis elongato-subulatis, racemis terminalibus breviter pedunculatis 
oblongis, floribus } poll. diam. albis ovario antherisque rubellis, pedi- 
cellis gracilibus perianthio longioribus basin versus articulatis, perianthii 
segmentis exterioribus 2 ovatis obtusis deflexis quam 3 exterioribus 
erectis dimidio brevioribus, staminibus 8-9, stylis brevibus, achznio 
triquetro. 
A. Mnschketowi, Krassn. Descr. Pl. Nov. v. Minus cogn. (1886), 20; Fl. Thian 
Schan. p. 340. 
seer lanceolatum, var. latifolium, Regel in Gartenfl. t. 1344 (1894), 
g. 1-3. 
I have retained for this plant the name under which it 
was published by Krassnov, though expecting that when 
the species of Atraphawis shall have been critically studied, 
it will prove to be a form of a previously published one. 
It has been referred by Regel to A. lanceolata, Meissn. 
(in DC. Prodr. xiv. pt.1. p. 78); (Tragopyrum lanceola- 
tum, Bieb.), which includes the Siberian and Dahurian 
Polygonum fruticosum, Linn. (Fl. Upsal. p. 95; Sp. Pl. 
p- 359). Of this (the Linnean) plant I have examined 
the specimen in the Linnean Herbarium. It is a very 
small and narrow-leaved species, with small flowers, quite 
unlike Tag. lanceolatum, Bieb., and very different from 
A. Muschketowi. The figure of P. fruticosum, given in the 
Botanical Register (t. 254), which was taken from a 
specimen that flowered in Fulham Nurseries in 1818 
_ resembles the Linnwan specimen in foliage, but differs 
in the flowers being rather larger, and in a leafy 
raceme. Atraphavis micrantha, Jaub. & Sp. (Jil. Pl. 
Or. vol. ii. p. 15), doubtfully referred to A. lanceolata 
by Meissner, is probably P. fruticosum of Linnzus 
Herb. It must further be borne in mind that Linnzus has 
cited under P. fruticosum a Levant plant of Tournefort 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1895. 
