OF THE GENUS SYMPHYTUM. 537 
parvi, fructiferi elongati. Rachis pedicellique puberuli et breviter pilosi. 
Calyx tubulosus, ad sextam partem in dentes breves ovatos obtusos partitus 
y , P р > 
fructifer auctus, subelabrescens. Corolla alba, calyce duplo longior. Fornices 
b] nm ` > 5 
Fig. 2, 
Symphytum Bornmuelleri. 
a. Flower. 6, Corolla opened to show stamens and corolla-scales. x 2, 
obtusi, stamina paullo excedentes. Antheræ obtusæ, filamentis dimidio 
longiores. Nuculw rectiuscule, venoso-areolatæ, venis fere lævibus, areolis 
minute tuberculatis. 
Caulis 2-45 dem. altus ; folia inferiora 6—8 cm. longa, 2—4:4 cm. lata ; 
racemus fructifer ad 7:5 em. longus ; flores 17 mm. longi, calyx 8-9 mm. 
longus, fructifer 10-12 mm. longus, 5 mm. latus ; паси 3 mm. longe, 
1:5 mm. late. 
5. brachycalyx, Haussknecht non Boiss., Pl. exsic. Anatoliw Orient. 761, 
and Pont. Galaticus, No. 2107 (?). 
GEOGR. Distr.—TurKEY: Northern Asia Minor. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED :— 58. brachycalyx Boiss." — Ak-Dagh, Amasia. 
Bornmüller, No. 761, 1889. Herb. Kew and Mus. Brit.—Sanadagh, Pontus 
Galaticus. Bornmiiller, No. 2107 (?) 1890. Herb. Kew., Mus. Brit., Fielding, 
and Bailey. 
This species, having been determined as SS. brachycalya, Boiss., by Hauss- 
knecht, occasioned much uncertainty in my mind with regard to the limits 
of variation, both in that species and in S. palwstinum, Boiss., until, by careful 
comparison of authentic specimens, I realized that Bornmiiller’s plant eould 
not be assigned to either of these. Boissier’s description of the stem of 
S. brachycalyæ is,in the * Diagnoses,’ © caulibus a basi ramosis," and in‘ Flora 
Orientalis, caulibus subdichotome paniculato-corymbosis.” In actual speci- 
mens the stem is generally forked, with the branches comparable in size with 
the main stem. In S. Bornmuelleri the branches are arranged in a racemose 
manner in the axils of leaves and are small in comparison with the stem, and 
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