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Planta cire. 50 cm alta. Caulis mediocris, inferne glabrescens, superne 
molliter adpresse pubescens. Folia in axe primario ovata vel ovato-sub- 
lanceolata, in ramulis flagellisque saepius lanceolata, utrinque cinereo- 
virentia et (praesertim subtus) molliter laxe pubescentia, majora superficie 
ad 4,5 x 2,3 cm; petiolo incano 1,4 mm aucta; nervatio subsimplex, vesti- 
mentum in pagina inferiori obscure subareolans; serratura constans ex 
dentibus sat robustis, dissitis, extus undulatis vel concavis, culminibus 
acutis prorsus versis 1—1,5 mm altis et 3—5 mm distantibus. Spicastrum 
breve, verticillastris einerascentibus congestis. Calicis 2 mm longi tubus 
1,2 mm profundus, dentes lanceolati fere 0,8 mm _ longi. 
Var. thibetanae Brig. affinis, differt autem indumento molli, foliis 
subtus obscure subretinerviis, spicastro brevi, calice majori. 
Pamir: N. 1396, prov. Wakhan, at Torgus. Alt. 2900™. Sept. 
19. 1898. 
37. Mentha longifolia Huds. subsp. modesta Brig. in Engl. u. 
Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV, 3a p. 322 (1897). 
var. thibetana Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II, 697 (1894). 
Folia supra quam in spec. thibetanis magis pubescentia, dentes di- 
stantiores, sed caeterum vix sejungenda. 
Pamir: N. 1502, prov. Shugnan, at a stream near Misjus. Alt. 
2400™. Oct. 10. 1898. 
Paulseniella Briq., gen. nov. 
Calix aperte campanulatus, breviter aequaliter quinquelobus, fauce 
nuda, fructifer auctus, membranaceus, campanulatim inflatus. Corolla 
minima, parum exserta; tubus cylindricus, intus nudus, limbus subaequa- 
liter breviter 5-lobus, lobis superioribus magis approximatis. Stamina 4 
subinclusa, subaequalia, distantia, filamentis medio tubi corollini insertis, 
nudis; antherae biloculares loculis demum apice clipeatim confluentibus. 
Discus antice in glandulam tumens. Stylus apice aequaliter bifidus, 
ramis apice globoso-incrassatis. Nuculae ovoideae, tuberculoso-rugosae. — 
Species adhue unica. | 
38. Paulseniella pamirensis Briq., sp. nov. (Fig. 8, 9). 
Herba annua, radice tenui fusiformi. Caulis mediocris, simplex vel 
subsimplex, parce patule pilosulus, inferne glabrescens et saepe pur- 
purascens, internodiis pluribus sensim decrescentibus. Folia oblongo- 
elliptica, apice obtusa vel subobtusa (summis tantum acutis), margine leviter 
convexe convergentibus, basi in petiolum brevem rotundato-cuneata, margine 
regulariter crenata, membranacea, viridia, parce pilosula vel glabrescentia; 
nervatio simplex, nervis lateralibus utrinque 7—9 parum prominulis. Verti- 
cillastri 6-flori in spicastra densa oblonga vel abbreviata terminalia et 
axillaria breviter pedunculata congesti; bracteae ovato-ellipticae, integrae, 
