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Bouches-du-Rhóne, Montredon, Saint-Loup, Carpiagne, near 
Toulouse; dept. of Var, environs of Toulon, Baon-de-quatre- 
heures, Montrieux, la Sainte-Baume. 
Iconogr.— Reichb. Ic. Plant. Crit. iv. 399; Willk. Ic. descr. 
Pl. Rar. Hisp. i. t. 66; Bory 4 Chaub. Fl. Peloponn. n. 701, 
t. 24. f. 2 (A. Gouffeia, Chaub.)—'* immerito et ex confusione 
schedularum herb. Fauché in Grecia indicatur." 
Sectio ii. LEPYRODICLIS. 
Flores parvi, cymoso-paniculati. Stamina 10. Capsula inflato- 
globosa, calyce inclusa.—Herbe Asiatice proceres flaccide 
annue, foliis lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis. 
159. A. noLosrEOrpEs, Edgew. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 
p. 241 (1874) ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. i. p. 668 (1867) (Lepyrodiclis 
holosteoides). 
60-65 centim. Glabra vel glanduloso-puberula. Caulis elon- 
gatus, interdum pilis brevibus inspersus, sicco nitidus striatus, 
usque ad flores dichotome cymoso-paniculatus. Folia ‘vflexa 
linearia vel lineari-oblonga vel etiam lanceolata, acuta scabrida 
tenuiter ciliata. Pedicelli cernui, (in typo) calyce longiores. 
Sepala lanceolata obtusa puberula membranaceo-marginata. 
Petala alba, obovata vel lineari-spathulata, basi angustata, ealy- 
cem equantia vel excedentia, apice retusa, faucem versus venis 3 
longitudinaliter notata. Ovula 4. Semina scabra, pallide 
brunnea. 
b. stellarioides, Williams. 
SYN. Lepyrodiclis stellarioides, Fisch. & Mey. in Schrenck, Enum, Pl. 
nov. (in nota) p. 93 (1841). 
Sepala sub anthesi subpatentia. Petala dilute carnea, anguste 
lineari-spathulata, emarginata. Capsula minor, magis inclusas 
Pedicelli forum calyce breviores. 
y. cerastioides, Williams. 
Syy, Lepyrodiclis cerastioides, Kar. & Kir. Enum. PI. Soongar. no. 167, 
in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. xv. 1842, p. 170. 
Pedicelli in planta juniore calyce breviores, in planta adulta 
plerumque illo longiores. Petala alba oblonga emarginata. 
àpsula minor, magis inelusa. 
The variation in the length of the pedicels in these forms shows 
that the character is not to be relied on elsewhere iu the genus 
as of any specifie value. 
