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N. 1346. Pamir, Wakhan, in the bed of the river Pandsh. Alt. 3000». 



Sept. 10. 1898. 

 Area: Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Persia, Asia-Media, Northern 



America. 



11. Monolepis Schrad. 



8. Monolepis Litwinowii n. sp. 



Planta perennis pusilla, altitudine 2 — 4 cm., albo-farinosa, 

 collo foliorum reliquiis obtecto. Caulis in parte inferiore ramos 



Fig. 1. Monolepis Litivinoioii n. sp. (Very magnified), 

 a. flower in side view, b. sepal seen from behind. 



eo æqyilongos vel longiores edens; internodia longa. Folia 

 radicalia longestipitata (stipes 2 — 3 cm., folium 1,5 — 2 cm.), 

 hastato-triangularia, irregulariter dentata, dentibus brevibus acutis 

 vel aculeo brevissimo rubro munitis. Folia floralia hastata, quo 

 altius sedentia, eo brevius stipitata, in summo caule fere sedentia, 

 hastato-linearia. Florum glomeruli 10 — 15 flori, sepalum unum 

 trifidum (Fig. 1, b) lacinia media acuta late rali bus muticis 

 longiore. Stamen unum, ante anthesem sepali lacinia media ob- 

 tectum (Fig. 1, a). Ovarium ovatum ovulo unico verticali, stigmatibus 

 duobus penicilliformibus. Semen castaneum. Embryo curvatum, non 

 orbiculatum : radiée cotyledones non tangente. 



