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but not with hi?; figure (1. c. f. 7), where it is elliptic acute, whereas the 

 ovary of my specimens is clavate-eliptic and very truncate, in transverse 

 section triangular with concave sides. The filaments are not much shorter 

 than the corolla, as drawn by Regel, but in young flowers „perigonio 

 subdimidio breviores", as Boissier says. Also the ramification is as drawn 

 by Regel. 



Ferghana: N. 1617, spontaneous in the gardens of Osh. April 10. 

 1899. 



A r e a : Turkestan, Persia. 



3. G. reticulata (Pall.) Schult. Syst.; Ldb. 11. ros. IV p. 142; 

 Bunge Reli(i. Lehman, p. 513; Buhse I.e. p. :2H; Rgl. bot. Issled. p. 110 

 tab. 19; Rgl. Acta H. Petrop. Vl p. 510; Franchet pi. Turk. I.e. p. 255; 

 Bois. fl. or. V p. 208; Hooker fl. brit. Ind. VI p. 356; Aitchison Afghan, 

 delim. Com. p. 119; 0. Fedtschenko Spisok rast. I.e. p. 152; B. A. et 

 0. A. Fedtschenko Rast. Pamir, p. 68 ; 0. Fedtschenko flore Pamir p. 190. 



Trans cas pia: N. 21, at Krasnowodsk. 



Area: South-eastern Europe, northern Africa, middle and western Asia. 



4. G. persica Bois. Diagn. pi. or. VII p. 108; Buhse 1. c.p. 212; 

 Bois. fl. or. V p. 210; Franchet pi. Turk. I.e. p. 255; Hooker fl. brit. 

 India VI p. 355; Aitchison Afghan, delim. Com. p. 119. — Gagea amhUjo- 

 petala (Bois.) Rgl. bot. Issled. p. 1 12 t. 17 f. 1 1 — 12 ; Rgl. Acta H. Petrop. 

 Ill p. 290, VI p. 512; Aitchison I.e. 



Ferghana: N. 1630, on a mountain near Osh. April 10. 1899. 



— — Var. stipitata (Merckl.); G. stipitata Merckl. in Bunge 

 Reliq. Lehman, p. 512; Rgl. Bot. Issled. p. 116 t. 19; Rgl. Acta H. Petrop. 

 Ill p. 281, VI p. 512; Franchet pi. Turk 1. c. p. 255; 0. Fedtschenko Spisok 

 Rast. p. 153; 0. Fedtschenko flore Pamir p. 190; — G. persia var. ehid- 

 hillosa Bois. fl. or. V p. 210; G. persica (Bois.) Hook. fl. brit. Ind. VI 

 p. 356. 



Alai mountains: N. 479, in the juniper forests at Olgin Lug. 

 Alt. 2600*". June 21. 1898. — Pamir: N. 1014. on moist slopes near 

 the lake Jashil Kul. Alt. 4000". Aug. 1. 1898. 



N. 479 contains very gracile specimens without radical leaves; the 

 inferior cauline leaf is 2—3™"^ bread. The ovary is distinctly slipitate. 

 I do not know how to distinguish safely between G. amhlyopetala Bois, et 

 Heldr., G. persica Bois, and G. stipitata Merckl., the form of the ovary 

 and the leaves I suppose are variable. Perhaps Boissier himself has 

 confounded them: A specimen in the museum of Copenhagen named 

 Gagea 2)ersica Bois. n. sp. (Th. Kotschy pi. Pers. Austr. Ed. Hohenacher 

 1845 N. 237) is cited in Diagn. pi. or. I.e. as G. persica, in Fl. or. i.e. 



