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flowers with a large, loose, cup-shaped calyx and acuminate 
lacinie ; fruit unknown.—Southern Toss, aaa 749. I 
refer here a specimen from the Herbarium of the St. Peters- 
burg botanic garden, collected in Armenia by Szovits, though 
the flowers are a little smaller and the calyx is rather more 
id 
deeply divi 
12. sp.: umbellis laxis paucifloris brac- 
ea ovata acuminata suffultis; calycis carnosi lobis ovatis acu- 
tis corolle t subeequantibus ; laciniis e equi- 
ovatis acutis papillosis crenulatis erectis seu patulis ; 
staminibus antheris ovatis filamenta subulata 
equantibus ; squamis angustis faucem attingentibus ria- 
tis Incurvis; § atibus ovarium globo -ovatum apice su 
ta apertura parva seibazi emum dehiscente. 
ar. 8. AxTatca, calyce profundius fisso; laciniis acutiori- 
bus; squamis minoribus sepe bifidis. 
Affghanistan, Griffith! 688-691, in Hb. Hooker, on Al- 
hagi, Peganum, Artemisia, etc. 8. Sarepta! originally from 
the Hb. of Pallas, and Altai, Sievers! both in the Her- 
barium of the Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg; Griffith’s 
plant, ree may be distinguished as «. Affyhana, has beau- 
and with av 
. Kotschyana it is distinguished by the much small- 
er flowers with longer peace the boise 8 divided calyx, the 
ovate and not acuminate lacinie.—The Altaic specimens may 
possibly constitute C. Asiatica, Pallas, but the specimen in 
Hb. H. B. Petropol., labeled thus by himself, belongs to C. 
BTS var. approximata. 
, Sea 8 Aisi sale ag  Ledak: ! Fl. Altaic. I. 293. Icon. t. 
ost DC. Prod. IX. 453, excl. syn—The smallest flowered 
species of this section ; flowers scarcely one line long, whitish, 
of very thin texture ; scales small, truncate ; styles almost uni- 
in 
ting from the base with a very large opening, rather irregu- 
larly torn; more closely allied to the next than to both other 
species of this section; distinguished from it principally by 
e much smaller flowers and the » wide ne La of the ripe 
e 
A, Fresenius ! Pl, p- 165; Choisy! 
Cuse. 175, t. 1, £ °, and DC. Prod. Rot not of Wight ; 
