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65 ENGELMANN—OUSCUTA. [515] 
Affghanistan, Griffith! 682 & 684.— Vahl’s description, 
“dentibus corolle lanceolatis,” ete., does not ries, —o 
with our plant, nor is Sibthorp’s figure, Fl. gree. t. 257, 
very correct; but the locality of the former and au- 
thentic specimen of the latter (in Hb. Jacq.) leave no doubt 
that both had the plant in view which {fo formerly distin- 
guished as C. astyla.—The inflorescence is a compound spike 
sometimes branched. Flowers 14-1} lines long; corolla 
1-1} line in length; lacinie oval or orbicular, very obtuse, 
delicately crenulate, 2a scarcely more than half as long 
as the tube, which i s entirely enclosed in the calyx; an- 
rostrate, slightly rough Mon. Blancheana, DesM.! in lit. is 
a form with a somewhat dhonsietich conic capsule, which oc- 
curs in Syria and Georgia, and which approaches the next 
species, 
ag eg Bunge! in Lehm. rel. in Mem. 
sav. ét. VII. 396.—Bokhara, on the Aviinlen of the Jan-Darja, 
A. Lehman ie owers pedicelled in a id inflores- 
cence, slender, 2}--2} lin long; corolla 2--2} lines in length ; 
lacinie oval, crenulate, shorter than the tube, erect or spread- 
ing; scales horseshoe-shaped, attached to the middle of the 
ube and covering the e of the ovate-vordate anthers, 
pecially of its Asiatic form ; the pistil is like that of the last 
species ; the position of scales is quite peculiar. I class with 
this bl form eae a inor: 
A: pedicels as long as, or often coves 
than ety aya snob lobes of the corolla still m 
tinctly crenate, not much shorter than the tube, ppieling, 
n the fruit erect or twisted; anthers still shorter} scales al- 
most entirely adnate, commonly showing only a denticulate 
crest on both sides; stigma globose or oval, almost se 
On Pistacia Terebinthus, on mount Sipyle, near Ma rom sia, 
Balansa! 411.—Flowers 24 lines, poem 2 lines long, more 
deeply — than in the allied speci 
