luljoiiiiiit^ ])()ilic)n.s ol Asia lo At|;lKiiiist;ui, 1 urkcslaii and lialiichislaii, Syria, soulli- 

 wesleni Siljcria, eastwards lo the Minusinsk dislricl. 



Li'pidiiiin lalil'oliuin !.. S]nx. IM. ni. 11 (17(i;5) p. 89'J; Lcdci). l"l. All. Ill, p. 189; 

 Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 178: Lodfh. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 207: Tuiczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. 

 (1842) p. 289. no. 170: Lcdcl). Fl. Ro.s.s. I, p. 20(1 el 7(i.'): riicilung. Gall. Lrjud. p. 158; 

 Kpi.i.i. <Im. A.iT. I (llMil) |). Ill; riymi., Cruciferae m. 'i>.i. ('iium|i. ii ,I,a.ii.ii. Hik-t. I (19i;5). |)(;.(; 



subspec. sibiricum (Schweigg.) Tliellung, 1. c. p. 159 et 161; Iiynn,, 1. c. lA'jndinin 

 lalifoliiiin vai". a/fine C. A. Meyer in Ledeb. Fl. All. Ill, p. 189; Turczan. I. c. (1842) p. 

 290; Regel, PI. Radd. (1861) p. 210, no. 247. 



Young specimens, bearing only leaves and quite young flower-buds, laken by me 

 on the salt-lake of Tagarski osero, south of Minusinsk, at the Ijegiiming of .luly. In the 

 Urjankai country I have found the species past flowering and nearly withered on the 

 steppes on the Ulu-kem at the end of August. The specimens gathered are distinguished 

 bj' their rather large and broad leaves, which are sessile and nearly cla.sping the stem. 

 The margin of the leaves entire, or only slightly and irregularly indented, the upper as 

 well as the under side of the leaves and the stem rather densely puberulent. 



Distribution: The species is distributed over southern and central Europe, North 

 Africa, and temperate portions of Asia. The western parts of this area (Europe, North 

 Africa and south-western Asia) are taken up by subspecies eiilali folium, while, on the 

 other hand, the eastern parts (from Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, and eastwards through 

 soulliern Siberia, Mongolia, and China) are taken up by sub-species sibirictiii). In bound- 

 ary districts both forms occur growing together. 



Lcpidium cordalum \Villd. ex Stev. apud DC. Syst. II (1821) p. 554; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 

 Ill, p. 186: Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. AU. no. 110; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 207 et 765; 

 Kpbu. 'l'.!. A.n. I (1901) p. Ill; in iir[>. Cruciferae m^ <I>.t. Cndnp. ii ;i,a.n>ir. liocr. I (191.S) 

 p. 104. Lcpidiiin} lali/oliiun subspec ainplexicaiile var. /i cordalum Thellung, I. c. p. 

 li;0 el 163. 



On saliferous soil, on the Abakan Steppe, near Ust Kamuishto. Flowering and 

 with young fruits in the second half of June. The specimens gathered are characteristic 

 in having very narrow leaves, from 3 to 5 mm. bi-oad, and the length to ten times the 

 breadth, the margin rather deeply and sharply dentate, moreover, in having the stems 

 generally unbranched. or only very slightly branched, frequently sparingly pubescent. 



Distribution: The geographical range of this species is confined to south-western 

 Siberia and adjoining regions of Dzungaria, Turkestan, and Mongolia. It was heretofore 

 not observed farther lo the cast than fhe government of Tomsk. 



Bunias orienfalis L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 936; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 226. 

 This species I have found as a weed in a corn-field by the road between Karatus 



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