ABSTRACT

On rubbly and rocky slopes in steppes, rocks and short-grass meadows. Cen. Sib.: TU. East. Sib.: BU-Yuzh, Chi-Shi.—Mongolia, China. Described from China.

2. L. krylovii Lipsky 1905 in Tr. Peterb. bot. sada 24:122. Stems many, 20-40 cm tall, erect or scarcely ascending, branched,

pubescent with short and fine hairs mixed with much shorter glandular hairs. Leaves ovate-deltoid, obtuse or subacute, somewhat cordate at base, crenatedentate, 10-25 mm long, 8-18 mm broad, petiolate. Flowers in semiumbels on peduncles in axils of upper leaves. Bracts small, lanceolate. Calyx tubular, less enlarged upward, glandular-pilose, with hairy ring inside. Corolla bluish lilac, twice longer than calyx, 10-12 mm long, tubule contorted resulting in inverted limb. Upper stamens and pistil considerably projecting from corolla; lower stamens sometimes absent.