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truncato-subattenuata, vix obscure subcordata, petiolo limbum subaequanti 

 insidentia, margine obscure vel superficialiter crenulata, praesertim subtus 

 laxe floccoso-villosella, vestimento cum aetate deciduo. Verticillastri dense 

 multiflori, pauci in axillis superioribus dissiti, caeteri ad apices ramorum 

 congesti foliis floralibus reductis fulcrati. Bracteolae lanceolato-lineares laxe 

 villoso-pilosae, apice acuminato-subulatae aliq. subspinescentes , purpu- 

 rascentes. Calix rectus campanulatus, superne laxe piloso-villosellus, pur- 

 purascens, inferne glabrescens pallidior membranaceus, aequaliter 5-dentatus, 

 dentibus anguste lanceolato-acuminatis, apice subspinescentibus, ore intus 

 vix pilis ullis praeditus. Corolla parva purpurascens, tubo superne antice 

 parum ampliato; labrum oblongum breve emarginatum ; labioli quam la- 

 brum aliq. longioris lobi laterales breves rotundati, medius major ob- 

 cordatus. Genitalia normalia sub labro occulta. Nuculae oblongae atrae 

 laeves nitidae. 



Planta ultra 20 cm alta. Caulis internodia ad 10 cm longa. Foliorum 

 lamina superficie ad 8 x 12 mm, petiolus ad 10 mm longus. Bracteolae 

 ad 10mm longae. Galicis maturi 6mm longi tubus 3 — 3,5mm profundus, 

 dentes 2 — 2,5mm longi. Corolla calicis os ad 5 mm excedens; labrum 

 1,5 — 2 mm longum; labioli 2 — 3 mm longi lobi laterales infra 1mm alti, 

 medius sect, long 2x2 mm. Nuculae sect. long. circ. 2 x 1 mm. 



Species insignis habitu Lamii amplexicaulis etiam ad § Micronepetas 

 referri debet, ab omnibus formis seriei caracteribus datis eximie differt, 

 etsi affinitates cum praecedente ex pilorum structura et foliorum forma 

 desumptas nounullas adsint. 



Pamir: N. 1145, near the lake Bulung Kul. Alt. 3800 m . Aug. 

 23. 1898. 



8. Nepeta satureioides Boiss. 



Alai mountains: at Olgin Lug. Alt. 2600 m . June 22. 1898. 



9. Nepeta daenensis Boiss. 



Pamir: N. 792, on mountains at Tshatir Tash. Alt. 4000 m . July 

 14. 1898; N. 858. on dry plains at Jashil Kul. Alt. 3800 m . July 21. 

 1898; N. 1006, ibid. Aug. 1. 1898. 



10. Dracocephalum Paulsenii Briq., sp. nov. (Fig. 4). 



Herba prostrata humilis. Rami ex caudice lignoso sat crasso crebri, 

 internodiis brevibus, undique dense patule breviter pubescentes, vel can- 

 escenti-pubescentes. Folia parva, breviter petiolata, ovata, profunde crenato- 

 pinnatifida, laciniis margine revolutis, supra viridia breviter adpresse pub- 

 escentia, subtus albo-tomentosa. Verticillastri ad apices ramorum in capi- 

 tula globoso-ovata vel oblonga vix vero spicata congesti. Bracteae ambitu 

 ellipticae pinnatifidae, laciniis obtusatis apice breviter subacuminatis nullo 

 modo aristatis, violaceae vel violaceo-coeruleae laxe villosae. Calix tubuloso- 

 campanulatus, -J- patule pilosulus, superne violaceus, tubo infra labWum 



