428 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
NEW PLANTS FROM CENTRAL. ASIA. 
Tue following athe, were collected by Capt. H. H. P. Deasy, 
in 1897 and 1898, in Northern Tibet and Chinese Turkestan. A 
-sketch-map Hastentitiy his route. has been published by the Royal 
aprile aa Society (April 2nd, 1900). The tens will be found 
the eee riment of Botany of the British Muse 
Lactuca (§ Bracnyruampuus) Deasyi S. Moor ‘Planta lid mil- 
lima abiea Crepidis cujusdam ad sectionem Glomeratam pertinentis, 
caule incrassato glabro, foliis parvis spathulatis obtusissimis integris 
manifeste 3-nerviis plus minus araneoso-pilosis, capitulis ¢ caulis ex 
apice aliquantulo dilatato convexo oriundis ibique dense aggregatis 
et subsessilibus, capitulis anguste cylindricis 4-flosculosis, involucri 
phyllis exterioribus 2 quam reliqua paullo brevioribus linearibus 
deorsum parum dilatatis, phyllis intermediis 2 oblongis una cum 
ibus sursum pilosis ceteroquin glabri ris, acheeniis compressis . 
oblongis deorsum parum angustatis apice in rostrum brevissimum 
abrupte contractis ee tatis 
Hab. Aksu, Chin e Turkestan, alt. 16,500 ? ft., July, 1898. 
Caulis 4:0 cm ait ‘0-7 em. diam. ., Sursum usque ad 1:0 cm. 
dilatatum. Folia "a. 5-3°5 cm. long. -, 0°5-0°6 cm. lat., deorsum in 
sicco corrugata et 0-2 cm. lat. | ea er siemens circa 8-0 cm. 
diam. Pedunculi modo 0-1-0-15 cm. long. Involucrum 1:2 cm. 
long., 0:4 em. lat.; phylla basin versus connata. Achenia 0°6 cm. 
et pappi “st deorsum straminee sursum grisex 1:0 em. long. 
very remarkable species, so extraordinarily like a C? vepis of 
§ Glom grace ance extending even to the partial union of 
the involucral leaves—that its true affinity was not suspected until 
the achenes came under examination. There is, I think, no known 
species of Lactuca with which this could possibly be salitnetiiad 
Polygonum tibeticum Rendle. Herba minor caule simplici 
tenui superne egram ocreis vix hypocraterimorphis hirsutulis, 
limbo brevi vix patente setoso-ciliato ; foliis membranaceis cai 
vel subovatis popcctomm vel acutis; petiolo tenui hirsutulo. infra 
ocree medium inserto; lamina precipue venis ceermreret pilo- 
sula; spica soba sessili, densa, oblonga, bracteis sanguineis late 
ovatis subacutis, glabrescentibus, cum margine + ciliolato ; floribus 
majusculis sanguineis, "perianth foliis 5, petalinis ; staminibus 
cum squamulis perigynis alternantibus ; stigmatibus binis aoe 
formibus; achzni 
Slender plants 30- 85. cm. high, the lower internodes barely 
. mm. thick, glabrous. Ocrea membranous, tubular, with scarcely 
ead 
(eluding petioles) to 5 em. long by 2 cm. broad, blade ao 
m. lo 
cGint wine almost glabrous; flowers crimson, closely FS ebbing 
those of Eee or nape! L.; perianth-leaves ellipsoidal, 5 mm. 
long by about m. broad; filaments peter ye about 3°5 mm 
Tag, anthers atieched. in the middle, 1 mm, long; ovary round, 
