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fasciculiferis. Flores dichotome paniculati; pedicelli calyce 
5-6-plo longiores. Calyx ovato-cylindricus ; sepala lanceolata 
acuta, margine basi ciliata, nervo post anthesin ciliato denticulato, 
interiora late scarioso-marginata, cetera anguste scarioso-margi- 
nata. Petala apice rotundata obtusa, calyce duplo longiora. 
Anthere aurantiaez. Capsula ventricosa ovoidea, calycem 
superans. Semina reniformia, dorso convexa, faciebus leviter 
exeavata, obtuse tuberculata. 
Prope A. hispidam, que staturá minore, pubescentiá longiore 
glanduloso-viscos, foliis lineari-lanceolatis glabris, pedicellis 
refractis, seminibusque duplo minoribus acuteque (nec obtuse) 
tubereulatis ab ea statim dignoscitur. 
Described from specimens gathered at Castellane. in the 
department of Basses-Alpes. Included by E. Tanfani in Parla- 
tores *Fl. Italiana, but allthe localities given are in French 
territory. 
Hab. S.E. France: departs. of Basses-Alpes and Alpes- 
Maritimes. 
Teonogr.— Willk. Ic. descr. Pl. Rar. Hisp i. p. 96, t. 61. 
SYN. A. ruscifolia, Requien, in Guer. Vaucl. ed. 2, p. 254. 
14. A. HurzEnI, Kern. in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1872, p. 308 ; 
Tanf. in Parl. Fl. Italiana, ix. p. 541. 
Glanduloso-pubescens. Caules decumbentes, congesti in 
CPSpitem laxum. Folia oblongo-lanceolata vel spathulata acuta 
uninervia ciliata. Flores solitarii vel geminati, rarissime dicha- 
sium triflorum efformantes ; pedicelli calyce 3-5-plo longiores, 
glanduloso-pubescentes. Sepala anguste oblonga obtusiuscula 
havicularia anguste membranaceo-marginata pubescentia ciliata 
subenervia. Petala alba, late obovata, calyce duplo longiora, 
Postanthesin fauce recurva. Anthere pallide purpuree. Semina 
reniformi-globosa granulata. 
Affinis A. gracili, que differt cæspitibus densis, caulibus pedi- 
cellisque erectis glabris, foliis viridibus, bracteis subulatis, sepalis 
ovato-lanceo]atis glabris levibus, petalis basi longe attenuatis. 
2. rupestris, Huter & Porta, exsicc. 1873. 
B. glareosa, Huter & Porta, exsicc. 1873. 
Var. B minus cespitosa. Folia magis acuta. Flores sepius 
geminati. 
Described from authentic living specimens im situ, which 
^Wered in Kew Gardens in 1896. It is quite distinct trom 
4 grandiflora and A. gracilis. 
