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III. Kobresia Willd. 



15. K. Bellardi (All.) Degland; B. Fedtschenko, Mat. fl. shugnan, 

 Travaux du Musee Bot. de l'Acad. Imp. d. sc. de St. Petersbourg, I, 1902, 

 p. 166; 0. Fedtschenko, Sec. Suppl. a la Fl. du Pamir, Acta Horti Petropo-L, 

 vol. XXIV, 1905, p. 346; K. scirpina Willd., Meinshausen, 1. c. p. 275; 

 K. capillifolia C. B. Clarke, Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. XX, p. 378; Hooker, 

 Fl. Brit. India, p. 697; K. macrolepis Meinshausen, 1. c. p. 276; Ehjna 

 Bellardi (All.) Koch; E. spicata Schrad.; Ledebour, Fl. Ross., p. 262; 

 Boissier, Fl. Orient., p. 394. 



The late G. B. Clarke had named the specimens Kobresia capillifolia, 

 but I cannot find any valuable difference between the arctic-alpine Ko- 

 bresia Bellardi and the asiatic-alpine K. capillifolia; perhaps the latter is 

 a taller plant, the bracteoles are somewhat larger and their margins more 

 broadly membranous; but leaves, old sheaths, culms, spikes and nuts are 

 quite like in both plants. 



No doubt the K. macrolepis Meinshausen 1. c. is identical with K. 

 capillifolia and consequently I take it as K. Bellardi. 



N. 715. Pamir. In a salt marsh near the river Murghab, alt. 3800 m . 

 July 7, 1898. 



N. 897. Pamir. In bogs near Jashil-Kul, alt. 3780. July 25, 1898. 



N. 979. Pamir. On the shore of Jashil-Kul, alt. 3780. July 28, 1898. 



16. K. schoenoides (C. A. Mey.) Boeck. ; Meinshausen, I. c. p. 278; 

 0. Fedtschenko, Fl. du Pamir, p. 427; Hooker, Fl. Brit. India, p. 697; 

 Duthie, Alcock's Plants, no. 88; Ehjna schoenoides C.A.Meyer; Ledebour, 

 Fl. Ross., p. 262; Boissier, Fl. Orient., p. 394. 



N. 1093, 1106. Pamir. In the mountains near Jashil-Kul, alt. 3850 

 -4050 m . July 11-13, 1898. 



N. 1146. Pamir. At the lake Bulung-Kul, alt. 3800 m , August 23, 

 1898. 



17. K. stenocarpa (Kar. et Kir.) Meinshausen, I.e. p. 278; K. schoe- 

 noides var. humilis 0. Fedtschenko, Fl. du Pamir, p. 428; Ehjna stenocarpa 

 Karelin et Kiriloff, Enum. Plant. Soongoric, no. 870, 1842; Ledebour, Fl. 

 Ross., p. 262; E. humilis C. A. Meyer ex E. R. Trautvetter, Observationes 

 etc., Acta Horti Petropolitani, I, 1870, p. 21. 



There are specimens of a Kobresia from two places in Pamir named 

 by the late G. B. Clarke „iT. schoenoides, var. humilis C. B. Clarke". 

 The specimens are only flowering, but they are so different from K. 

 schoenoides that I feel sure they are a distinct species. They belong to 

 the section Ehjna of the genus, as the spikelets contain one female and 

 3 — 4 male flowers, and they are nearly related to K. schoenoides, from 

 which they differ mainly in the structure of the leaves. In the plant in 



