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N. 1346. Pamir, Waklian, in tlie bed of the river Pandsh. Alt. 3000». 



Sept. 10. 1898. 

 Area: Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Persia, Asia-Media, Northern 



America. 



II. Monolepis Schrad. 



8. Monolepis Litivinowii n. sp. 



Planta perennis pusilla, allitudine 2 — 4 cm., albo-farinosa, 

 collo foliorum reliquiis obtecto. Caulis in parte inferiore ramos 



Fig. 1. Monolepis Litivinotvii n. sp. (Very magnified), 

 a. flower in side view, b. sepal seen from behind. 



€0 æquilongos vel longiores edens; internodia longa. Folia 

 radicalia longestipitata (stipes 2 — 3 cm., folium 1,5 — 2 cm.), 

 hastato-triangularia, irregulariter dentata, dentibus brevibus acutis 

 vel aculeo brevissimo rubro munitis. Folia floralia hastata, quo 

 altius sedentia, eo brevius stipitata, in summo caule fere sedentia, 

 hastato-linearia. Florum glomeruli 10 — 15 flori, sepalum uuum 

 trifidum (Fig. 1, b) lacinia media acuta lateralibus muticis 

 longiore. Stamen unum, ante anthesem sepali lacinia media ob- 

 tectum (Fig. 1, a). Ovarium ovatum ovulo unico verticali, stigmatibus 

 duobus penicilliformibus. Semen castaneum. Embryo curvatum, non 

 orbiculatum : radice cotyledones non tangente. 



