cal.-Dahur. (1842) p. 730, no. 296; EpLui. dJjr. A.ir. II (1903) p. 230; Knjiap. Mnmirp. Ca- 

 ragana p. 321 forma. 



Foliola, calyces et pediinculi molliler pilosi. 



The leaves are 3—4 pinnate, the leaflets elliptic or obovate, to 2,2 cm. long, and 1,1 

 cm. broad. The flowers are about 2 cm. long, the peduncles, during the flowering, about 

 twice as long, articulate immediately below the flowers. The young pods slightly 

 pubescent. 



Scattered about Minusinsk and the river Abakan, on hills etc. here and there accom- 

 panying Rosa sp. and with an undergrowth of Fragaria viridis, Iris ruthenica, Aster alpi- 

 niis, Solidago Virgaurea, Stellaria graminea, and others. The species flowers here in the 

 second half of May and the first half of June. Specimens collected at the beginning of 

 June, bear already pods, about 3 cm. long. The species is also scattered in the Urjankai 

 country, especially in open thickets of foliage trees, intermingled with larch, and the like, 

 between Ust Sisti-kem and the Kamsara, near the Dora Steppe, on the Tapsa, and near the 

 Ulu-kem, above Cha-kul. 



Distribution: Southern Siberia, northwards to about 60° north lat., from the Altai 

 region to Trans Baikal, northern Mongolia, southwards to about 48° north lat. It does 

 not occur in China, Japan, and in the Okhotsk region. 



Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fischer in DC. Prodrom. II, p. 248; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 566; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 728, no. 294;KpMj. 4>ji. Ajit. II (1903) p. 234. G.glan- 

 dulifera Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 261. G. glandulifera Waldst. et Kit. /S grandiflora Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross. I, p. 566. 



Pretty common on the Abakan Steppe, between Ust Kamuishto and Ust Abakansk. 

 Specimens collected here, at the end of June, are young, and as yet flowerless. Is also 

 scattered between Minusinsk and Kushabar, and at Bjeloarsk, near the Ulu-kem, where I 

 have collected it with pods at the end of August. 



Distribution: The north of the Caucasus (on the river Kuma), Turkestan, through 

 southern Siberia and northern Mongolia, eastwards to the Khingan mountains, and south- 

 wards towards Peking. 



Giildenstadtia monophylla Fischer in Mem. Soc. Imper. Natural. Moscou T. VI (1823) 

 p. 171; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 260; Bunge, Enum. Alt. p. 63; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 564; 

 EpMj. cDji. Axr. II (1903) p. 235. 



Only few specimens of this very rare plant have been collected by me, on sunny, 

 dry rocks facing south, near the northern bank of the Ulu-kem, about 60—80 Aversts 

 east of Kemshik bom. Of the plants, taken September 1st, only the leaves and empty 

 pods have been left. 



Distribution: The plant has previously been found near the junction of the rivers 

 Argut and Katun (Gebler), at Korketschu, near the Katun, between the rivers Uleghen 

 and Tschuja (Ledeu.), and in Mongolia (Maximowicz). 



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