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Dapune ALTaica. Attaic DapuHne. 
Bap ae a a Se ea ee 
Class and Order. 
Ocranpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal.0. Cor. 4-fida, marcescens, stamina includens. Drzpa 
i-sperma. Th Oe | ~ 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Darune aliaica ; floribus terminalibus sessilibus subquinis, 
foliis ovato-lanceolatis glabris. 
Darune aliaica ; floribus fasciculatis terminalibus sessilibus, 
foliis oblongo-ovatis glabris. Pall. Ross. 1. p. 53. t. 35. 
Dapune altaica; floribus terminalibus subsessilibus, foliis 
oppositis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis basi angustatis 
giabris. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 422. : 
diate 
A pretty shrub, of low stature, with reddiai-tadwn bark ; 
leaves alternate, oblong, broader towards the upper ex-— 
tremity and narrowed downwards, of a somewhat glaucous 
and yellowish-green, the latter colour prevailing most while 
they are young. Flowers in a sessile umbeli, generally five 
_ together, white, with the lacinie revolute; we did not 
observe that they had any scent. Anthers in two rows upon 
very short filaments within the tube of the corolla. Germenr 
oval: stigma sessile, shining, flattened-orbicular. 
Native of the Altaic Alps, where it was discovered by 
M. Parrin, a friend of Pattas, to whom he communicated 
dried specimens, from which the figure and description in the 
Flora Rossica were apparently taken. Wii.ipenow, who 
acknowledges to have seen the plant only in a dry state, has 
erroneously added to the character that it has opposite leaves, 
though not only in Paxas’s figure are they represented 
alternate, but in his description are said to be always so. 
_ Flowers in May and June. Communicated by Mr. Biges, 
curator of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, and the 
Worthy successor of Donn. 
