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4. A. Duthreuil de-Rhinsi H. Krasch. 
, A. (s. Bracunculus) perennis. Radix verticalis, i 
erassa, multiceps, collo ramosa caespitem formans. Cab¬ 
les nuinerosi, infra lignosi, supra herbacei,,10—20 ctm. i, 
alti, simplices, cyliadricif costati, dense et longe paten- j 
ter villosi. Folia adpresse et longe villosa, argenteo- 
sericea, folia suxculorum sterilmm omnia et eaulinum/. 
florigerorum inferiora longe petiolata, (petioli l\| 2 4 ctm. | 
longi), bipinnatipartita, 3 -6 ctm. Ionga, l 1 )*—2 ctm. 
lata, lobi primarii (utrjpque 2—4) late lanceolati, pin-,, 
nati- v. tri-partiti, 3f^ — 5 mm. longi, 1— 1 % mm; lati, 
lobuli lanceolati, acuti, Folia cauliria media et superiora, 
sessilia; pinnati- vel semel pinnati-partita, ambitu obp : 
vata, 1—3 ctm. Ionga, 1 ctm. lata; lobi, 1—2, lanceolati, 
lobi basilares simplices ceteri pinnati-partiti versus api- 
cem rachis copgesti, lobuli late lanceolati, acuti, folia su- 
prema tripartita v. integra. Inflorescenfia racemosa, 
. v. angnste paniculato-raeenfosa, ‘ ejus ratouli. inferioies?; 
" longi (10 ctm.), cauli adpressf, ramuli superiores abbre- 
viati 2 — 5. mm. longi. -Oapitula sessilia, solitariar^ra 
per ’ 2 — '5 congesta, hemisphaeriea, 3^—4 mm. diainetrp. . 
Squamae parce v. dense villosae, squamae oxteroiorespj 
lanceolatae, atro-virides, squamae interiores late lanceo¬ 
latae, margine scariosae. Flores jaiarginales anguste. 
tubuldsi, feminei, stylus bifurcatus, stigmata e corolla 
exerta, flores disci late tubulosi, hermaphroditi, omnes 
fertiles, in parte superiore interdum purpurascentes, 
Achaenia oblonga, plana, 1 mm.,Ionga. Receptacu- 
lum nudum. 
' China: MonS' Nanschan, in decliv. septentr. jag* 
Humboldt, solo argilldso, Ulan-bulak, 12000 ped. a$. t 
24 VI, 1894, -Ns '175, in valle fl. Scharagoldshin: loj. 
Paidsa-tologoi, arena, 11000 ped. alt., 11 VH 1894, 
iNa 312;” loc. Chuitun, steppa arenosa, 12000 ped. alt.,» 
12 VH, 1894, 323, (leg. Roborowski). 
A proxima A. pycnorhiza Ld. differt: pills densio* . 
ribus, caulibus numerosioribus, caespite majore, capitals 
