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the Progress and Condition of the Royal Gardens, Kew (1878), p. 12). 
Remarks on the uncertainty which has existed with regard to the status of 
this plant will be found on pp. 518-519. 
S. anatolicum, Boiss., was collected by D’Urville in the island of Cos in 
1820 as S. asperrimum. It was again found by Boissier near Smyrna 
in 1842, and described by him as S. anatolicum in 1844. 
There is in the Cambridge Herbarium a specimen of a blue-flowered plant 
collected by Calvert in Armenia between the years 1854 and 1866. It is 
related in some respects to S. asperum and in others to S. sepulerale, but is 
distinct from these and from all other species. The Fielding Herbarium 
contains several good specimens of the same plant collected by the 
Hohenackers in 1831 and 1838 in Georgia, and also another of Calvert's 
Armenian collection. I have named and described the plant as S. armeniacum. 
A plant collected by Pinard in Caria in 1843 as S. orientale, Linn., was 
named S. brachycaly by Boissier in 1844. 
S. Gussonei, Schultz, was at first referred by Gussone in ‘ Flora Sicula’ 
(1844) to S. mediterraneum, Koch, but was named 5. Gussonei by Schultz 
in 1874, because it was not the same as the plant referred by him to 
S. mediterraneum (S. floribundum, Shuttlw.). The available evidence tends 
to show that Gussone’s plant is distinet from that of Koch. 
S. sylvaticum, Boiss., was gathered by Bourgeau at Calia near Trebizond 
in 1862, and described by Boissier in 1879. I know of no other specimens 
than those contained in the Boissier herbarium, and the plant does not appear 
to be recorded from any other locality. 
S. kurdicum, Boiss. & Hausskn., was discovered in Kurdistan near the 
Persian frontier in 1867 and described by Boissier in 1879. It was again 
collected by Bornmüller in 1893. 
S. floribundum, Shuttlw., was discovered at Hyères by Shuttleworth in 
1871. As already mentioned, Schultz determined it to be 5. mediterraneum, 
Koch, a plant to which, as I shall endeavour to show, it is in no way related. 
It appears to be a very rare species, as, besides the Hyères specimens, which 
are well represented in herbaria, I have only seen it from Aups, Var. 
All the particulars which I have been able to discover will be found in the 
remarks on this species. 
A plant collected by Bornmiiller in the north of Asia Minor in 1889 was 
distributed under the name of S. brachycalyx, Boiss. It is nearly related to 
that species and also to 5. palestinum, Boiss., but occupies an area distinct 
from that of either species, and possesses well-marked characters of its own. 
I have therefore described it as a new species and named 16 S. Bornmuelleri, 
after the discoverer. 
S. pseudobulbosum, Aznavour, was discovered near Constantinople in 1892 
and described in the following year. It does not appear to have been noticed 
elsewhere. 
