Lieutenant Olufsen's second Pamir-Expedition. 



Plants collected in Asia-Media and Persia 

 tty Ove Paulsen. VII. 



Labiatae. 



det. J. Briquet. 



1. Scutellaria orientalis L var. mollis Briq., var. nov. 



A var. genuina Boiss. differt bracteis molliter dense tomentosis, apice 

 magis conspicue acuminatis. Caracteribus caeteris vix sejungenda. 

 Ferghana: N. 316, on a mountain near Osh. May 30. 1898. 



2. Scutellaria Paulsenii Briq., sp. nov. (Fig. 1). 



Suffrutex, caudice lignoso caules multos procumbenti-adscendentes 

 proferente. Rami brevissime adpresse puberuli vel glabrescentes, internodiis 

 brevibus. Folia parva, ovata, apice obtusa, infra medium latiora, basi 

 breviter rotundato-cuneata, sessilia vel fere sessilia, marginibus superficialiter 

 crenatis, utrinque viridia brevissime parce puberula vel subglabra. Verti- 

 cillastri in spicastra terminalia tetragona congesti, bracteis elliplicis -J- vio- 

 laceis, subintegris vel integris, praesertim ad margines laxe villosellis, laxe 

 imbricatis. Galix sub anthesi parvus, laxe villosellus. Corolla magna vio- 

 lacea, extus breviter adpresse pubescens typi S. alpinae. 



Planta 10 — 15 cm alta Foliorum lamina superficie 1 — 1,2X0,7 cm, 

 crenis circ. 0,5 mm altis. Spicastra ad 5 cm longa. Bracteae superficie 

 circ. 1 x 0,7 cm. Calix sub anthesi vix ultra 2 — 3 mm longus. Corolla 

 calicis os ad 2,5 cm excedens. 



Species habitum S. alpinae omnino refert, sed folia minora etiam 

 basilaria sessilia vel fere sessilia, dum in ilia folia basilaria serrato-crenata 

 semper conspicue petiolata sunt. Affmitas magna est etiam cum S. virente 

 Boiss. quae a nostra bracteis magis reticulato-nervosis, foliis profunde incisis 

 petiolatis discedit. 



Pamir: N. 620, at Bordo-ba (border of the Alai-steppe) Alt. 3500 m . 

 June 27. 1898; N. 752, at the river Kara-su. Alt. 3700 m . July 12. 1898. 



3. Scutellaria adenostegia Briq., sp. nov. 



Herba perennis. Caules adscendentes vel erecti, undique breviter 

 glanduloso-puberuli, cinerascentes. Folia satis parva, ovata, apice obtusa 

 vel subacuta, basi truncato-subcordata, petiolo quam lamina breviori in- 



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