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Planta circ. 50 cm alta. Caulis mediocris, inferne glabrescens, superne 

 molliter adpresse pubescens. Folia in axe primario ovata vel ovato-sub- 

 lanceolata, in ramulis flagellisque saepius lanceolata, utrinque cinereo- 

 virentia et (praesertim subtus) molliter laxe pubescentia, majora superficie 

 ad 4,5x2,3 cm; petiolo incano 1,4 mm aucta; nervatio subsimplex, vesti- 

 mentum in pagina inferiori obscure subareolans; serratura constans ex 

 dentibus sat robustis, dissitis, extus undulatis vel concavis, culminibus 

 acutis prorsus versis 1— 1,5mm altis et 3— 5mm distantibus. Spicastrum 

 breve, verticillastris cinerascentibus congestis. Calicis 2 mm longi tubus 

 1,2 mm profundus, dentes lanceolati fere 0,8 mm longi. 



Var. thibetanae Briq. affinis , differt autem indumento molli , foliis 

 subtus obscure subretinerviis, spicastro brevi, calice majori. 



Pamir: N. 1396, prov. Wakban, at Torgus. Alt. 2900 m . Sept. 

 19. 1898. 



37. Mentha longifolia Huds. subsp. modesta Briq. in Engl. u. 

 Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV, 3 a p. 322 (1897). 



var. thibetana Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II, 697 (1894). 



Folia supra quam in spec, thibetanis magis pubescentia, dentes di- 

 stantiores, sed caeterum vix sejungenda. 



Pamir: N. 1502, prov. Shugnan, at a stream near Misjus. Alt. 

 2400 m . Oct. 10. 1898. 



Paulseniella Briq., gen. nov. 

 Calix aperte campanulatus, breviter aequaliter quinquelobus, fauce 

 nuda, fructifer auctus, membranaceus, campanulatim inflatus. Corolla 

 minima, parum exserta; tubus cylindricus, intus nudus, limbus subaequa- 

 liter breviter 5-lobus, lobis superioribus magis approximatis. Stamina 4 

 subinclusa, subaequalia, distantia, filamentis medio tubi corollini insertis, 

 nudis; antherae biloculares loculis demum apice clipeatim confluentibus. 

 Discus antice in glandulam tumens. Stylus apice aequaliter bifidus, 

 ramis apice globoso-incrassatis. Nuculae ovoideae, tuberculoso-rugosae. — 

 Species adhuc unica. 



38. Paulseniella pamirensis Briq., sp. nov. (Fig. 8, 9). 



Herba annua, radice tenui fusiformi. Caulis mediocris, simplex vel 

 subsimplex, parce patule pilosulus , inferne glabrescens et saepe pur- 

 purascens, internodiis pluribus sensim decrescentibus. Folia oblongo- 

 elliptica, apice obtusa vel subobtusa (summis tantum acutis), margine leviter 

 convexe convergentibus, basi in petiolum brevem rotundato-cuneata, margine 

 regulariter crenata, membranacea, viridia, parce pilosula vel glabrescentia ; 

 nervatio simplex, nervis lateralibus utrinque 7 — 9 parum prominulis. Verti- 

 cillastri 6-flori in spicastra densa oblonga vel abbreviata terminalia et 

 axillaria breviter pedunculata congesti; bracteae ovato-ellipticae, integrae, 



