(A. Tournefortii, Jaub. & Sp.), so that his species is, like 
Meissner’s, a composite one. Another allied plant is 
A. buxifolia, Jaub. & Sp. (Polygonum crispulum, Tab. 
1065) which has the racemes of A. Muschhketowi, but the 
pedicels are jointed about the middle, and the perianth 
segments crisped. 
As with so many Central Asiatic shrubs, the leaves of 
the species of Atrapharis vary extremely, and together 
with the habit of the plant, depend on the aridity or 
moisture of the locality they grow in. A. Muschketowi is 
a native of the foot of the Alatau Mts. a member of the 
great Thian Schan range of Central Asia, where it was 
found by Krassnov near the Amatinka river in lat. 43° 0 
N. and long. 77° 47’ E. The specimen figured is from a 
plant sent from the Imperial gardens of St. Petersburg to 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in May and 
June in the Arboretum. 
Descr.—A dwarf, leafy, spreading, deciduous shrub, three 
feet in diameter; bark of branches brown. Leaves one to 
one and a half inches long, very shortly petioled, oblong, 
acute, crenulate, pale green, nerves arching ; stipules half 
an inch long, erect, subulate, connate to about the middle. 
Racemes terminal, chiefly in whorls, lateral branches one to 
one and a half inch long, very shortly peduncled, oblong. 
Flowers about a third of an inch broad, white, with red 
anthers and ovary ; peduncle very slender, longer than the 
perianth, jointed above the base. Perianth 5-partite ; two 
outer perianth-segments oblong, reflexed, about half as 
long as the orbicular, erect, inner. Stamens 8. Ovary 
trigonous ; style very short.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stipules ; 2, fis. with pedicel; 3, perianth, stamen and ovary; 4 and 
» anthers ; 6, ovary:— All enlarged. 
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