214 fiORRAGiNE^- Ai-nebia. 



plus raiiius cristalls laciniis elongatis anguste linearibus uninerviis 

 conniventibus, corollne luteee birsutse tubo calycem vix vel diiplo 

 superante, stigmate bi vel quadrifido. nuculis parvis triquetris acutis 

 inffiqualiter tul^erculalis ©. A. cornuta F. et M. Ind. Petr. 1835. — 

 Onosma Orientalis Pall. It. tab. 50. — Lithospermum decwnhens 

 Vent. Cels. tab. 37 (nomen antiquius sed inaptum). — Lith. micran- 

 thum Viv. Lib. IV, tab. 1. — Lith. tuhatum Bertol. Misc. I, p. 14. — 

 Onosma asperifolium Lehm. Asp. II, p. 372. — Arnehia Vivianii 

 Coss. et Dur. (forma calvce majore). — A. calycina Stev. Bull. Mosq. 

 iS51, p. 598. 



Hab. in arenosis et deserti.i Arabife petreae ad Ouadi Usoit et in deserto Tih 

 <Boiss!), deserto Syriaco ad Palmyram (Bl!), ad Aleppo et in Mesopotamia 

 (Haussk!), Babylonia (Auch. 2359!), Armenia Turcica prope Van (Noe!) et 

 Rossica (C. Koch), Georgia Gaucasica (G.A. Mey! Hoh I), Persia boreali (Szov! 

 Buhse!), media (Bge!), australi (Ky. 84!), Turkestania ad Gaspium et prope 

 Buchara (Lehm !). 



Multuni variat antherarum insertione, styli divisione, corollae magnitudine 

 €i forma (nunc 4 Ijneas, nunc 8-9 longa); form» subbisexuales prob. adsunt. 



Ar. Geogr. Africa borealis interiof ab Algeria ad regnum Tripolitanum, Rossia 

 austro-orientalis, Songaria, Sibiria Altaica. 



4. A. linearifolia (d.o. Prodr. X, p. 95) aniiua. tota setis 

 llavescentibus ad caules foliorum margines et inflorescentiara patulis 

 strigulosa, caulibus pumilis rectis a collo sa^pius pluribus ramosis 

 ramis a basi in racemos densissimos breves distichos abeuntibus, 

 foliis radicalibus parvis obiongo-spathulatis subpetiolatis, caulinis 

 latiuscule oblongo-linearibus obtusis. bracteis linearibus acutis calyce 

 subbrevioribus. calyce fruclifero valde accreto basi inflato vi.v; indu- 

 rato ad nervos prominentes longe setoso et albo-tuberculato laciniis 

 longissimis late lineari-lanceolatis obtusiusculis trinerviis . corollse 

 luteae villoste tubo calyce (florifero)sesquilongiore limbo parvo, nucu- 

 lis triquetris acutis grosse scrobiculatis et tuberculatis O. A. flaves- 

 cens Boiss. Diagn. Ser. I, II, p. 1 17. 



Hab. in arenosis desertorum, ^Egyptus prope Kahiram (Husson!). Arabia 

 petraea in regione Hauara (Schimp. 398 sub Lith. Arnebid!. Boiss!, Auch. 

 2368!), in deserto Tih (Boiss!), deserto Syriaco ad Palmyrau) (Bl!), Armenia 

 Rossicil ad Nackhitchewan (Szov!), Persia ad Firouz Kuh (Bode!) et inter 

 Ispahan et Teheran (Bge!), Belutschia (Stocks!). 



Diflfert ab A. cornutd racemis fructiferis brevibus densissimis, calycis fruc- 

 tiferi multo magis aucti tubo non indurato pentagono cornuto et cristato sed 

 membranaceo tuberculato et hispido, laciniis multo majoribus (sspe pollica- 

 ribus 2-3 lineas latis) trinerviis. Nucula; duplo majores. 



* ' * Galjrx fructifer accretus tubo laevi laciniis elongatis. 



5. A. tinctoria (Forsk. Eg. p. 63) annua, dense et adpresse setis 

 tuberculatis cinerascens nana a basi breviter ramosa, foliis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis obtusis basi attenuatis, racemis etiam fructiferis brevibus 

 densis secundis, bracteis linearibus obtusis calyces subsuperantibus, 



