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connata, obtusa vel acutiuscula, triangulari-semiteretia, in sicco 

 convoluta. Flores in apice omnium ramulorum in axillis solitarii, 

 oppositi, interrupte spicati. Bracteolæ latæ, margine membranaceæ, 

 ovato-suborbiculares, concavae. Calyx ad basin usque quinquepartitus. 

 Sepala margine membrauacea intégra, in fructu omnia alata. Fila- 

 menta cum staminodiis rotundatis margine ciliolatis in cupulam 

 coalita, his angustiora. Ovarium ovato-subglobosum, stylus brevis- 

 simus, stigma capitato-triloba. Perigonii fructiferi alarum tres 

 majores, duo minores, omnes striatæ flabelliformes margine undulatæ, 

 horizontaliter patentes. Sepalorum partes superior! fructum tegentes. 



This species in habitus resembles A. phyllophora Kar. Kir.. 



from which it is distinguished by 5, not 3 wings, which are not erect 



and are thinner and less scariose than the wings of A. phyllophora. 



K. 1354. Pamir, prov. Wakhan. in dry mountains by Laugarkisht, frequent. 

 Alt. 3000". Sept. 10. 1898. 



57. A. salsa (C. A. M.) Benth. et Hook gen. PI. Ill p. 73: 

 Brachylepis salsa C. A. M. in Ldb. fl. alt. I, p. 372; Ldb. Ic. fl. 

 ros. t. 48 ; Ldb. fl. ros. Ill, p. 827 ; Bunge Keliq. Lehm. p. 481 ; 

 Bunge Anabas. Revis, p. 48 ; Bunge Enum. p. 443 ; Bois. fl. or. IV, 

 p. 971. 



N. 1908. By the river Amu Dar i a between Tshardshui and Chiwa, in 



desert by Pitnjak. June 28. 1899. 

 N. 2028. Chiwa, on dry plains between Chodsheli and Kunja Urgentsb. 



July 27. 1899. 



58. A. eriopoda (C. A. M.) Benth. et Hook 1. c; Aitchison 

 Afghan. Delira. p. 104; Brachylepis eriopoda CA. M. ; Ldb. fl. ros. 

 in, p. 827 ; Bunge reliq. Lehm. p. 841 ; Bunge Anabas. revis, 

 p. 49; Bunge Enum. p. 443: Bois. fl. or. IV, p. 971. 



N. 2082. By the river Amu Daria between Tshardshui and Chiwa. in 



stony desert by Giaur Kala. Aug. 11. 1899. 

 Area: Afghanistan, middle- and central Asia. 



XXIII. Halocharis Moq. 



59. H.hispida (C. A. M.» Bunge Anabas. revis, p. 62; Bunge 

 Enum. p. 446; Bois. fl. or. IV. p. 974: 0. Fedtschenko I.e. p. 132; 



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