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connata, obtusa vel acutiuscula, tnaugulari-semiteretia, in sicco 

 convoluta. Flores in apice omnium ramulorum in axillis solitarii, 

 oppositi, interrupte spicati. Bracteolæ latæ, margine membranaceæ, 

 ovato-suborbiculares, concavae. Caljx ad basin usque quiuquepartitus. 

 Sepala margine membranacea intégra, in fructu omnia alata. Fila- 

 menta cum staminodiis rotundatis margine ciliolatis in cupulam 

 coalita, bis angustiora. Ovarium ovato-subglobosum, stylus brevis- 

 simus, stigma capitato-triloba. Perigonii fructiferi alarum tres 

 majores, duo minores, omnes striatæ flabelliformes margine undulatæ, 

 horizontaliter patentes. Sepalorum partes superiori fructum tegentes. 



This species in habitus resembles A. phyllophora Kar. Kir., 

 from which it is distinguished by 5, not 3 wings, which are not erect 

 and are thinner and less scariose than the wings of A. phyllopliora. 



N. 1354. Pamir, prov. Wakhan, in dry mountains by Laugarkisht, frequent, 



Alt. SOüO"-. Sept. 10. 1898. 



57. A. salsa (CA. M.) Benth. et Hook gen. PI. Ill p. 73; 

 Brachylepis salsa C. A. M. in Ldb. fl. alt. I, p. 372; Ldb. Ic. fi. 

 ros. t. 48; Ldb. fl. ros. Ill, p. 827 ; Bunge Reliq. Lehm. p. 481; 

 Bunge Anabas. Revis, p. 48; Bunge Enum. p. 443; Bois. fl. or. IV, 

 p. 971. 



N. 1908. By the river Amu Daria between Tsbardshui and Chiwa, in 



desert "by Pitnjak. June 28. 1899. 

 N. 2028. Chiwa, on dry plains between Cbodsheli and Kunja Urgentsh. 



July 27. 1899. 



58. A. eriopoda (C. A. M.) Benth. et Hook 1. c; Aitchison 

 Afghan. Delim. p. 104; Brachylepis et^iopoda C.A. M. ; Ldb. fl. ros. 

 Ill, p. 827 ; Bunge reliq. Lehm. p. 841 ; Bunge Anabas. revis, 

 p. 49; Bunge Enum. p. 443; Bois. fi. or. IV, p. 971. 



N. 2082. By the river Amu Daria between Tsbardshui and Chiwa, in 



stony desert by Giaur Kala. Aug. 11. 1899. 

 Area: Afghanistan, middle- and central Asia. 



XXIII. Halocharis Moq. 



59. H.hispida (C.A. M.) Bunge Anabas. revis, p. 62; Bunge 

 Enum. p. 446; Bois. fl. or. IV, p. 974; 0. Fedtschenko L c. p. 132; 



