c-al.-l);ilnu-. (IXI'J) p. TI'.O. no. 'i'.Xi; i;|„,i.i. Mm, Aji. H Cinn:^.) |i. ZUI; |;,,m;,|, M ,,, (ji- 



KUjdiia p. ."iL'I /(iniut. 



i'oliold. ciiliicrs el prdiiiiciili mollilcr jiHosi. 



Tilt' Icaxcs ;uc i! — I piiiiKilc, llir Icailcis clliijlic oi' ohovalc. to 2.2 cm. loii}^. and 1.1 

 nil. liroad. Tlic llowcis aic ahoul 2 cm. loiij^. llic peduncles. diiiiiiL; llie flowering, about 

 twice as loiii,'. ailieiilale immedialely lielow llie llowcis. The younii pods slightly 

 ])ubesc(Mil. 



Scallcrccl about Minusinsk and llie ii\( r .Abakan, on hills elc. here and there accom- 

 panying Rosn ^]). and with an nndeiLiiowili ol' I'^nu/tuia niridis. Iris riilhcnicd. Aster (ilpi- 

 niis. S()li(l(i(/(i Viriiiiiiri'd. Slfllarid (//vn/i/nca. and otiieis. The species flowers lieic in the 

 second half of May and llie I'iisl hall of .lune. S|)eciinens collected al the beginning of 

 June, bear already pods, about 3 cm. long. I'he species is also scatleicd in the Urjankai 

 country, especially in open thickets of foliage trees, intermingled with larch, and the like, 

 between Ust Sisti-kem and tlie Kanisara, near tlie Dora Stei)pe, on the Tapsa, and near the 

 riu-kcm, above C.ha-kul. 



Distribulion: Southern Siberia, northwards to aboul (iO noiili lal.. from the Altai 

 region to Trans l?aikal. northern Mongolia, southwards to about KS north lal. It does 

 not occur in China, .lapan. and in Ihe Okhotsk region. 



Glycyrrhiza nralen.sis F'ischer in DC. Prodrom. II. p. 248; Ledebl Fl. Ross. I, p. 566; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 728, no. 294;Kpi.i.i. ^a. A.it. II (1903) p. 234. G.glan- 

 (Inliferd Lcdel). Fl. All. 111. [>. 2(11. (,. iihtndulifi'ra Waldsl. el Kil. /i (jniiKlillord Lcdeb. 

 Fl. Ross. I, p. .")()b. 



Pretty common on the Abakan Steppe, between I'st Kamuishto and Fsl Abakansk. 

 Specimens collected liere, at the end of .June, are young, and as yet flowerle.ss. Is abso 

 scattered between Minusinsk and Kushabar, and at Bjeloarsk, near the Ulu-kcm, wliere I 

 have collected it with pods at the end of .\ugusl. 



Distribulion: The north of llu- Caucasus (on the river Kunia). Turkestan, through 

 southern Siberia and noithern Mongolia, eastwards to the Khingan mounlains, and south- 

 wards towards Peking. 



Giildeiistiidlia nionophylia Fischer in Mem. Soc. Imi)cr. Natural. Moscou T. VI (1823) 

 p. 171: Ledeb. Fl. All. III. p. 260: Bunge, Enuin. .\ll. ]). 63: Ledeb. Fl. Ros.s. 1. p. 564; 

 l.'pi.M. 'I'.i. A.IT. II (1U03) )). 235. 



Only few specimens of this very rare jilant have been collected by me, on sunny, 

 dry rocks facing south, near the northern bank of the Ulu-keni, about tiO— 80 wersts 

 east of Kemshik bom. Of the plants, taken September 1st, only the leaves and empty 

 pods have been left. 



Distribulion: The jilanl has prcviou.sly been found near Ihe junclion of Ihe rivers 

 Argut and Katun (GkbleuX at Korkctschu. near the Kalun. between Ihe rivers Fleghen 

 and Tschuja (I.kdkb.), and in Mongolia (Maximowicz). 



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