OF THE GENUS SYMPHYTUM. 525 
This is a small, slender species, distinct and easily recognised. De Candolle 
mentions a * specimen simplex subpedale," but all those which I have seen 
are eopiously branched with numerous, mostly many-flowered, branches. 
The leaves are rough with tubercular setze, and are generally attenuated 
into the petiole, but are occasionally rounded at the base, as in Bornmiiller’s 
plant from Mount Sipylos. The racemes often bear as many as 36 flowers, as in 
Boissier's Smyrna plant, bat in his plant from Tralles they are as few as 12. 
Flowers of two distinct colours are rare in this genus, only occurring, in 
pure species, in this and in S. officinale. In the latter, two colours are often 
combined in the same flower, but in 5. anatolicum, as far as can be seen 
in dried specimens, they are either pure violet or white. The corolla is 
generally narrow, and the tube is nearly twice as long as the limb. In fruit, 
the calyx-segments are broadly ovate at the base, rather suddenly attenuated 
to the apex, and become nearly glabrous. 
In the absence of specimens it seems impossible to separate S. stcyosmum, 
Candargy from S. anatolicum. The only characters in which Candargy’s 
description differs are—the leaves contracted instead of attenuated into the 
petiole, the rather more deeply divided calyx, with segments which are acute 
instead of subobtuse, and the corolla-seales which are often bifid at the apex. 
But these characters of the leaves and calyx are variable in 5. anatolicum, as 
in most species, and ean searcely constitute a species or even a variety, and 
the bifureation of the corolla-scales is probably an abnormality, which 
occasionally occurs in other species. There only remains the taste of 
cucumber mentioned by Candargy, but this again, without more definite 
characters, is insufficient to separate the plant from S. anatolicum, and is, 
indeed, found to a certain extent in other species. The habitat, the isiand of 
Lesbos, is not too far away to be included in the area of S. anatolicum, being 
not further from Smyrna than Tralles and Mount Tmolus. 
10. S. orromanum, Friv., in Flora, хіх. (1836) p. 439. 
Radix fusiformis. Caulis puberulus et pilis longis minute tuberculati 
hirsutus, gracilis, suberectus, ramosissimus, ramis elongatis gracilibus. Folia 
hispidiuscula, ovata oblongave, acuta ; in feriora cordata et media in petiolum 
alatum contracta vel attenuata, пес in caulem deceurrentia ; superiora sessilia, 
basi cuneata. /tacem? multiflori, demum elongati. Rachis pedicelli calycesque 
pilis longis gracilibus rectis et uncinatis obsiti. Calyx ad tertiam vel quartem 
partem inferiorem in lacinias ovato-lanceolatas subulatasve, subobtusas 
fissus. Corolla subeylindrica, ochroleuca, calycem dimidio subduplove ex- 
cedens. Fornices subulati, acuti, longe exserti, corollá duplo longiori. Antheræ 
filamenta sub:equantes, basi utrinque apiculate. Nucule supra basin vix 
constrictee, obsoleie areolato-rugosee, minute tuberculate. 
Caulis 3-5 dem. altus : folia 5-7 em. longa, 2-4 em. lata; flores 7-3 mm. 
longa ; calyx 4—5 mm. longus ; corolla 6-7 mm. longa ; nuculee 2 mm. long, 
1:2 mm. late. 
