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Florcs sparsi, sessiles, solitarie dispositi , in spicas secundas, nuiltifloras, ante an- 

 thesin arcuatas collecti , remoti , basi tribracteati : bractca infima ovata , acuta, inte- 

 i^errima, flore niultiplo brevior, herbacea; bractea media lanceolata, acuminata, flore 

 plus duplo brevior, integerrima, margine hyalina ; bractca suprema elliptica, apice 

 tridcntata, dimidium florem aequans, florem amplectens, margine hyalino , lato. Peri- 

 anthium infundibuliforme , persistens: tubus cylindricus, paullum incurvus, pubescens. 

 circiter longitudine bracteae supremae , 5-striatus, sensim dilatatus in limbum ultra 

 niedium 5-fidum, albidum, hyalinum: laciniis ovatis, acutiusculis, integerrimis, mar- 

 gine reflexis. Petala 5, perianthium (in sicco) subaequantia , i;Iabra, (in sicco) vio- 

 lacea , unguibus in tubum conniventibus , dilatatis : lamina clliptico- obovata, apice 

 rotundata, integcrrima. Staniina 5, imae basi pctalorum inserta, petalis paullo bre- 

 viora : filamenta filiformia, glabra : anthcrae obloiigae, lutcae. Styli 5, filiformcs, pc- 

 talis longiores : stigmata terminalia, capitata. Fructus mihi ignotus. 



Delincavi ad specimina sicca, in deserto Nogaiorum iecta. — «. periauthiuni 

 cum bractea infima et suprema m. auct. ; — h. flos m. auct.; — c. bracteae 3 floris 

 m. auct. ; — d. bractea suprema a dorso m. auct. ; — e. corolla m. auct. ; — f. pe- 

 talum cum stamine m. auct. 



TAB. 10. 



ORITHVIA >UTANS. tbautv. 



Oniitkogahm umflorimi Bess. Qiec. Laxm..J — Bess. Ueber die Flora des 

 iUdkals, in: Beibl. zur Flora 1. 1S34. 



Gagea uniflora Turcz. CataL pl. baical., in: Bullet. de la Soc. des Natur. 

 de Mosc. 1S38. Nr. I. p. 102. (nec Schvlt.J. 



Tulipa altaica Bess. (^nec Gebl.J. — Bess. Ueber die F^Iora des Baihals, in : 

 Beibl. zur Flora I. 1S31. 



Habitat ia rupibus ad fl. Augaruiii. 



Herba demum dodrantalis, glaberrima, perennis. Bulbus magnitudine nucis 

 maximae Avellanae , tectus membranis pluribus, extimis fuscis, scariosis, sursum cau- 

 lis basin longe includentibus. Scapus simplicissimus , infra medium bifoliatus, basi 

 apiceque nudus, flore solitario terminatus. Folia radicalia nulla; scapi oblonga, 

 acutiuscuia. scapum subsuperantia, alterna, approximafa. Fios solitarius , longe pe- 



