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* Petala calyce sesqui vel duplo longiora. Septum crassum opacum. 



M. Africana (L. Sp. 928 sub Hesperide) tota setis patentibus 

 simplicibus et furcatis hispida, foliis oblongis dentatis, pedicellis ca- 

 lyce brevioribus, petalis obovato-oblongis calyce duplo longioribus, 

 siliqua subtetragona erecto-palula hirto-scabra, stigmate acutiusculo 

 obliquo siliquae latil. aaquilongo vel breviori 0. M. Africana R. Br. 

 Kew. IV, p. 121. Buxb. Cent. 4, tab. 44. Rchb. fig. 4371. 



Hab. in arenosis et ruderatis ssepe subsalsis totius regionis, A'tica 

 (Sprun !), Thracia (Griseb !), Asia minori (Auch ! Boiss !), Armenia (Bourg!), 

 Syria (Ky ! Gaill!), Arabia petraea (Schimp ! ), Mesopotamia (Noe!), re- 

 gione Caucasica (MB. Hohen!), Persia (Auch ! Buhse !), Affghania (Griff!), 

 Belutschia (Stocks !). 



/3. intermedia. Siliqua glabrescens, stigma ejus latit. brevior. M. 

 intermedia C.A.M. Eiium. p. 186. 



Hab. ad mare Caspium prope Baku (C.A.M!), in Turkestania (Bunge!). 



y. laxa. Glabrescens, siliqua^ glabra3, planta elatior laxa. M. laxa 

 Lam. Dict. III, p. 325 (sub Hesperide). 



Hab. in Turkestania circa Buchara (Lehm. ox Bunge). 



(J. trichocarpa. Siliqua pilis longis patentibus hispida, stigma coni- 

 cum truncatum vel inter 2 lobos apiculalum. M. trichocarpa Boiss. 

 et Buhse Aufz. p. 21 . 



Hab. in deserto Persiae borealis orientalis prope Djendack (Buhse!), 

 prope Schahrud (Bunge!). 



e. stenopetala. Petala oblongo-linearia, siliqua strigulosa, stigma 

 conicum latit. siliquae longius vel brevius. M. stenopetala Bernh. Hort. 

 Erf. 1832. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 170. 



Hab. in Persia orientali ad Schahrud et Sertschah (Bunge!), in desertis 

 Turkestanise (Lehm. ex Bunge). 



Inter omnes formas transitus occurrunt. 



Ar. Geogr. Hispania, Gallia australis, Hungaria, Rossia australis, 

 Africa borealis, Songaria, India boreali-occidentalis. 



M. runcinata (C.A.M. Enum. Casp. Cauc. p. 186) pilis sparsis 

 furcatis obsita, caule brevissimo, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtuse in- 

 ciso-dentatis vel runcinato-pinnatifidis, floribus subsessilibus, petalis 

 sublinearibus, siliquis brevibus subtetragonis parce hirtis vel glabris, 

 stigmate brevi conico O. M. taraxacifolia Balb. Cat. Taur. 1814, p. 

 10. dc. Syst. II, p. 439. 



Hab. in argilloso-salsis ad mare Caspium prope Baku (C.A.M !), Persiae 

 prope Ispahan et Kerman (Auch. exs. 4267! Bunge!). 



/3. glabra. 



Hab. ad Mohammera Mesopotamiae (Noe !) 



