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evidence of enlarged glands attached to the inner series of 
filaments, a character which would warrant the transference of 
the plant to the subgenus Pentadenaria. Specimens of this 
species, accidentally placed in a parcel of Greek plants in Fauche’s 
herbarium, were described as a new species by Chaubard under 
the name of A. sordida. The eastern limit of the species is 
determined from the specimens in the late Mr. G. C. Joad’s 
herbarium. l 
Geogr. limits.—N. & W. Portugal: Faro in the prov. of Algarve. 
E. Near Algiers ( Herb. Joad, 1873). 
S. Algeria: Andalous in the dept. of Oran (Balansa, 
Pl. d'Algérie, 1852, no. 452). 
Ieonogr.— Willk. Ic. descr. Pl. Rar. Hisp. i. p. 93, t. 62 B, et 
p.94, t. 62 c (var. B); Chaub. Fl. Péloponn. n. 699, t. 24. f. 1 
(A. sordida). 
Syn, A. betica, Salzm. ex Ball, in Journ. Linn, Soc. xvi p. 365 
(1877). 
3. A. NILGHIRENSIS [neelgherense], Wight § Arn. Prodr. Fl. 
Ind. Or. p. 43 (1834) ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 239. 
Hab. N.W. Himalaya in Kashmir, and Nilghii Hills in 
Malabar; also Belgaum and Dharwar in Bombay Presidency 
(Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 15 [1861]),—uot mentioned in 
Hooker's * Flora of British India.’ 
Wight says that it is only met with here and there in the 
Nilghiri Hills, and is not at all common. This locality remains 
the southern limit of the genus, which is 11? N. lat. 
Iconogr.— Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 949, et Spicil. Neilgherr. 
t. 15. 
4. A. Poment, Mundy, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xi. p. 15 
(1864); Pomel, Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atlant. p. 207. 
Pumila, glauca, 4-10 * centim., sepius a basi ramosa, ramis 
rectis. Caules dense puberuli pilis brevibus retrorsis, simplices 
fore unico terminati vel smpius superne dichotome ramosi, 
ramis diehotomize simplicibus flore termiuatis vel iterum dicho- 
ome divisis, ramo altero dichotomis abortu ssepe deticiente. 
Folia glabra punetulato-tubereulata, margine scabra, nervo medio 
reviter dentato ; inferiora oblongo-spathulata, media et superiora 
* . . . sure 
The stem-measurements throughout are taken with a centimetre measure 
"om good average specimens ; and in French authorities these of course usually 
agree with the length given in the original description. 
