280 METYER 
let. de la Soc. des Natural. de Mosc. 1838 p. 101; Cham. in Linnaea 
VI p. 53% (specim. masc.). 
Dsherganà, Mongolis (Jährig.) 
Species galbulis unifloris, involucri vagina intima ampla pseudo-nuculam 
includente ïillaque fere duplo longiore et tubillo elongato torto optime 
distincta. 
Suffrutex humilis, diffusus. Radix repens, crassitie pennae columbinae, 
vel paulo crassior, cortice fuscescente vestita, multicaulis, (Caules herbacei, 
ima basi fruticulosi, modice ramosi, laterales saepe declinati. Rami recti, te- 
nues, flavescenti-virides, striati, tuberculato-scabri, tenaces et in sicco ad 
genicula haud secedentes; internodia °/ 
, —*/, poll. longa. Vaginae arctae, 
virescenti-flavidae, bidentatae: dentibus obtusis, vel saepe apice herbaceo 
acutatis.  Amenta ad ramorum articulos, utrinque solitaria, opposita, dioica 
vel non raro monoica, 1. e. mascula et foeminea in eadem stirpe. Amenta 
mascula sessilia, basi vaginulis nonnullis vacuis fulta, illis Æ. vulgaris mi- 
nora, subglobosa, Antherae 6 — 8, sessiles vel mediae substipitatae. Amenta 
foeminea in apice peduneuli perbrevis (1 3 lin. longi) continui, dein 
recurvati sessilia (nullo pedicello proprio fulta) et cum peduneuli vaginula 
terminali articulata, deflorata secunda, semper uniflora. Involucri vaginae 3 
finterdum 2), in fructu valde ampliatae, pseudo-nuculam fere duplo longio- 
res, Immarginatae; infima reliquis minor, subsemipartita: media intima 
duplo brevior, bifida: lobis latis obtusis; intima vix ad mediam partem sub- 
bifida: Tobis latissimis obtusis. Galbulus turgidus, subglobosus, 4 lin. in dia- 
metro. Pseudo-nucula ovata vel ovato-oblonga, obtusiuscula, hinc valde, 
iinc minus convexa, 2 vix 2°/, lin, longa. Tubillus elongatus, longe ex- 
sertus et in serpentis formam tortus; limbus ligulatus brevis, parte tubulosa 
quadruplo octuplove brevior, 
Hab. ad Lenam amnem! (Gmel.), in regionibus cis Baicalem, prope pa- 
gum Wedenskaja! (Turcz.), et prope Kultuk ! (Gebler): in rupibus transbai- 
