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0296 Southern Tibet : vol.6
Southern Tibet : vol.6 / Page 296 (Color Image)

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C. H. OSTENFELD AND OVE PAULSEN.

S. W. Tibet, On the road between Camp CLXXXIX, Dongbo, 4598 m., and Camp CXC, Tuksum, 4596 m., the valley of Upper Tsangpo, I st July 1907 (flowering). Geogr. area: Alpine Himalaya and Tibet.

Gentiana thianschanica Rupr., in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. XIX (1869) 61; Hemsley, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 35 (I 902 ) 191 ; Fedtschenko, in Acta Horti Petrop. XXI (I 903) 379; G. decumbens Hemsley and Pearson, in Peterm. Mitteil., Ergänzungsb. 28 (I 900) 374; (?) Stewart, in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (1916) 64o.

Northern Tibet, Sarik-kol, Kwen-lun, 3469 m., 5 th Aug. 1896.

Geogr. area : Alpine Himalaya, Tibet, Mongolia.

Gentiana Hedinii Murbeck, in Oesterr. botan. Zeitschr. XLIX (1899) 241, text-figs. I-3.

Northern Tibet, Sarik-kol, Kwen-lun, 3469 m., 5 th Aug. i8 9 6.

We have not succeeded in finding the specimens upon which this and the following species have been based.

Gentiana cordisepala Murbeck, in Oesterr. bot. Zeitschr. XLIX (I 899) 243, text-figs. 4-5.

Northern Tibet, Sarik-kol, Kwen-lun, 3469 m., 5 th Aug. 1896.

Pleurogyne brachyanthera C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India IV (1885) 120; Hemsley, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 35 (1902 ) 191; Fedtschenko, in Acta Horti. Petrop. XXI (I 903) 381 ; P. carinthiaca, Hemsley and Pearson, in Peterm. Mitteil. Ergänzungsbd. 28 (i 900) 374; Stewart, in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (1916) 64o.

Northern Tibet, Sarik-kol, Kwen-lun, 3469 m., 5 th Aug. i8 9 6.

HEMSLEY and PEARSON (1. c.) record Hedin's plant as P. carinthiaca Griseb., but as HEMSLEY later (1. c.) only mentions P. brachyanthera Clarke from Tibet, and as the two species are very near (if different at all?), I have transferred the record to P. brachyanthera.

Geogr. area: Tibet, Himalaya, Pamir.

Fam. Plumbaginaceæ

(determ. by C. H. OSTENFELD).

Acantholimon Hedinii Ostf. nov. sp. (Pl. IV, Fig. 2). Sect. Pulvinaria Boiss. Densissime cæspitosum, glaucescens; ramis brevibus columnaribus; foliis squarrosis, 4-7 mm. longis, crassiusculis, margine ciliato-scabra, obtuse triangularibus, apice obtusa vel acutiuscula. Spica una in apice rosulæ brevissime stipitata; spiculis I -2- floris sessilibus, bracteis 4-5, exterioribus acutis, late ovatis, margine lata membra- nacea, ceterum pallide glauco-virescentibus, interioribus membranaceis, nervo median()