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dentibus lanceolatis 9-nerviis. Petala non contigua, lamina 

 obovata. Capsula ovoidea. Semina minute tuberculata. 

 Hah. Movi River, Transvaal {Herb. Keiv.). 



82. D. Kitschakewiczi, Beg el et Schmalh.in Act. Hort. Petro- 

 polit. v. (1877), p. 244; auct. Enum. spp. varr. Dianthus, p. 13. 



Folia linearia flaccida patentia, vagina folii diam. aequante. 

 Bractese 4, inferiores oblongo-ellipticae, superiores ovato-ellipticae, 

 acuminate ad dimidium calycem. Calycis dentes lineares. Petala 

 non contigua, lamina oblonga imberbi. 



Hob. Turkestan. 



###### j^ 011 g] auc j # Caules tetragoni. Folia 1-7-nervia. 

 Bractese 4-8. Calycis dentes lanceolati. Petala non contigua- 



83. D. serrulatus, Desf. FL Atlantica, i. (1798), p. 346 . 



auct. Finks West Eur. p. 17 ; Willk. Icon. Descr. Fl. Crit. 

 Hisp. i. t. 7. 



40 centim. Caules tenues. Folia elongato-linearia plana ; 

 radicalia 64 mm., 7-nervia acuta, caulina 30 mm., 5-nervia acumi- 

 nata ; vagina folii diam. sequante. Bracteae 8, lanceolate acumi- 

 nate ad \- calycis, patentes coriacese. Calyx apice attenuato, 

 dentibus 7-nerviis. Lamina barbulata purpurea obovato-cuneata. 



Geogr. limits. — N. Andalusia, 38°. E. Tunis, 10°. 



S. Algeria, 30°. . W. Morocco, 10°. 



So named by Desfontaines, from the incised margin of the 

 petals. The plant is not to be confounded with Schlosser's 

 homonym, which is a Croatian species, and differs from this 

 North- African plant in the following points : — ca)spitose in habit ; 

 stems much shorter, simple, and angularly compressed, with the 

 angles more acute than in this species; leaves plane, with the 

 sheath twice as long as broad ; bracts 4, more broadly ovate and 

 reaching to the apices of the calyx, thinner and more membranous 

 in texture ; and teeth of the calyx reddish. (See p. 408.) 



84. D. tabrisianus, Bien. in Bunge, PL Persic. Exsicc. ex 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. p. 496, et Supplem. p. 78 ; Begel et Schmalh. 

 in Act. Hort. Petropolit. v. (1877), p. 244. 



Basi suffrutescens, 24 centim. Folia 25 mm., stricta linearia 

 acuta adpressa caualiculata uninervia, vagina folii diam. duplo 

 longiore. Bractese 4 ovali-oblongiore mucronate adpressa* ad 

 1 calycis partem. Calyx dentibus 7-nerviis. Lamina alba 

 imberbis ovato-oblonga in lacinias latitudini area) aequilongas 

 vel subbreviores partita. Antherae pallid®. 



