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compressed, equal in length (barely 1°5 mm.) to the style with its 
two subsessile cap- shaped s stigmas: fruit not present. 
A member of Meisner’s section Amblygonon, aaa most nearly 
allied to Polygonum or rite L., the flowers being almost identical 
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flower-spike ; the thinner texture A, ies elongated form of the 
leaves also distinguish i it. 
Hab. Northern Tibet. 
ALLIUM consaNGuINEUM Kunth, var. rossum Rendle, var. nov. 
Indistinguishable from the species except by its rose- -olonred 
flowers ; those of the species are described as — yellow 
ab. — Tuz — alt. 13,000 ft., — 
Festuca rusra L. ropusta Rendle, . NOV 
spitans, innova stabi “extra aginalibus — Enter ascendentibus, 
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tis, demum ascendentibus et caules basi robustos efformantibus ; 
nodis, vaginis, foliisque glabris; foliis flaccidis plicatis vel con- 
volutis ; panicula flexuosa mente: spiculis 4-5-floris, villosis iis 
F. arenarie Osbeck (F. rubra var. arenaria Fr.) similibus. 
at the base of the shoots, and the leaves, which are remarkably 
flaccid for the species; the blades are generally between 7 and 14 cm. 
long and about 8 mm. broad when opened out. 
re Turkestan plant resembles somewhat specimens collected 
by Bi t Karakorum, at 18,500 ft. (No. 30335 in 
ice Y. but the latter she not the robust growth referred to ; and the 
spikelets have more flowers, with slightly narrower fertile "glumes. 
. Shiran Maidan Hunza Valley, five miles from Kilak Pass, 
138,000 ft., October, 1897. . 
Festuca Deasyi Rendle. —_ glabra, glauca, innovati- 
onibus intravaginalibus, caulibus vaginis membranaceis mar- 
cidis basi indutis, florentibus cum internadaie tribus que sepius a 
vaginis striatis arcte inclusa sunt; ligula brevi membranacea tran- 
cata, laminis — anguste linearibus, sepius conyolutis, venis 
nibus scabridulis; panicula sublaxa, sepius 
prominentibus, 
stricta, axi eons ‘radiis cbapliaiiona, infimis ternis, ey a 
4—6-floris, 
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obsoletis ; palea valde binervata, nervis viridibus seabridulis ; lodi- 
culis suboblongis; antheris linearibus; stylis in floribus masculis 
es _ et breviter pilosis 
Plant t 14 ft. high, covered for 10-11 em. at the base with 
withered pas shontbs ligule 4 mm. long, generally split, blades 
20-25 em. or less in Gage by a little over 2 mm. or less in width 
ee flat ‘punisle 10-12 em. long, branches subfiliform, scabrid- 
