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longa semiteretia superue caualiculata basi lata ai3ice obtussisima, 

 omnia florigera, superne seusim breviora. Flores in omnibus axillis 

 solitarii, bracteolæ iufeiioiæ foliifoimes semiteretes superne canali- 

 culatæ foliis floralibus breviores, superioræ squamiformes foliis 

 floralibus sæpissime longiores. Sepala 5 acuta in fructu fere 

 omniuo libera membranacea, 2 exteriora dorso pubescentia aligera 

 parte inferiore sexnervia. tertium alam parvam gerens parte inferiore 

 trinerve, 2 interiora alam non gerentia vel auricidam minimam 

 gerentia parte inferiore uninervia. Filamenta linearia, antheræ 

 1,5 mm. longæ lineares basi leviter sagittatæ ad trientem partem 

 fissæ, flavæ. Appendicula sessilis pæne 1 mm. longa ovato-oblonga. 

 Ovarium anguste ovatum superne attenuatum, sub anthesi cum 

 stigmatibus elongatis subulatis 4 mm. lougum, stylus subuuUus. 



I have named this plant after Mr. W. Lipski in St. Petersburg, 

 an authority in the flora of Turkestan. H. mamanense Bunge, to 

 which it seems to be most allied, I have not seen. 

 N. 2066. Chiwa, iu desert (of „Lüss") by Kunja Urgentsh. Aug. 4. 1899. 



64. Halanthium gamocarpum (Moq.) Benth. et Hook. gen. 

 pi. Ill, p. 75; Halimocnemis gamocarpa Moq. in Belang fl. pers.; 

 Moq. Chenopod. Monogr. Enum. p. 155; Halocharis gamocarpus 

 Moq. in D. C. Prodr. XIII, 2 p. 201 ; Gamanthus gamocarpus Bunge 

 Anabas. revis, p. 77; Bois tt. or. IV, p. 980; Lipski 1. c. p. 18. 



N. 1885. By the river Amu Daria between Tshardshui and Chiwa, in 



desert by Kara Aigir. June 26. 1899. 

 Area: Persia, Afghanistan, Asia-media. 



XXVI. Cornulaca Del. 



65. C. Korshinskyi Litwinow, Schedae ad Herb. fl. ros. 1. c. 



Nr. 889. 



^\ 1842. Buchara, in desert by Ustyk. June 19. 1899. 



Area: Buchara. 



XXVn. Halogeton G. A. M. 



66. H. glomeratus (M. Bieb.) C. A. M., Fl. Alt. I, p. 378; Ldb. 

 Ic. pi. fl. ros. t. 40; Ldb. fl. ros. Ill, p. 832; Bunge Reliq. Lehm. 



