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segraentis laminae solum nervus medianus conspicuus, nervi secundarii 

 obsoleti; flores 4 — 6, racemosi, longe distantes, aetate valde inaequales ; 

 bractea ovato-cuneata vel late lanceolata, pedicello multo brevior, vel 

 eum aequans vel superans, integerrima, cum bracteolis duabus linea- 

 ribus connata vel libera, pedicellus calycem aequans vel eo usque 3-plo 

 longior; calyx glaber, cainpanulatus, quinque-gonus, anguli crassi, 

 sursum calycis tubae dilatati et in dentes longos, anguste-lineares 

 vel subulatos abeuntes; pars tubae calycis inter angulos transspecta 

 membranacea ecolorata vel rosea (nee viridis), margine trnncata et 

 bidentata; dentes tubo calycis fere aequilongi, erecti vel paullo in- 

 trorsum incurvi; corolla rosea, infundibuliformi-campanulata, in 

 tubo calycis et ultra cylindrica, deinde sensim infundibuliforme 

 ampliata, limbus 5-lobatus,tubo duplo brevior, lobi rotundati latiores 

 quam longi, 3 inferiores patuli, 2 superiores recti, margine ciliis 

 paucis minutis conspersi; staminum filamenta glabra; antherae cum 

 connectivo brevissimo, ei perpendiculariter positae, anguste ovatae, 

 pilosae et in parte inferiore suturae cum calcare aculeiformi; capsula 

 (matura rufo-strarainea) caule fere adpressa, erecta linearis, univalve 

 dehiscens; semina complanata, alata, ovato-suborbiculata, laevia, ala 

 pallide-straminea. 



Mongolia centralis, Gobi : Kobden-usu, inter lacnm Gaschiun- 

 nor et montes Tostu, in rupibus, 14 Augusto 1886, flor. et 

 cum fruct. matur.; vallis Udshiim, 16 Aug. flor.; mons Zomzo, 

 21 Aug. flor., vallis inter montes Nemeg-etu et Zomzo, 20 Aug. 

 flor. Yulgo: „naram-zezek", i. e. „flos solarius" (G. N. Potanin). 



Caulis 25 cm., folia 7—10 cm., calyx 8 — 10 mm., dentes 

 4—5, tubus calycis 4—5 mm., corolla 45—55 mm., capsula 

 5_6 cm., semina 6% mm. long, et 5% mm. lat. 



13. Polygonatum kansuense Maxim, (in schedulis). 

 Glabrum, folia linearia, vel anguste lanceolata acuta non cir- 

 rhosa, sessilia, subtus glauca et ad nervos scabrida, inferiora sparsa, 

 cetera' verticillata 3-na, omnia solum in dimidio supero caulis dispo- 



