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csespite subsessiles solitarii. Bractese 4 lanceolatse scarioso-alatse 

 adpressse ad £ calycis. Calyx dentibus lanceolatis scarioso- 

 alatis. Lamina alba parva oblongo-spathulata ultra medium 

 multifida. 



Sab. Kurdish Armenia. 



100. D. atomarius, Boiss. Diagn. PI. Nov. Or. ser. I. yiii. 

 p. 71 ; Fl. Orient, i. p. 492. 



Grlaber, 25 centim. Bhizoma sublignosum. Folia linearia 

 acuminata stricta canaiiculata adpressa, vagina folii diam. 

 sequante ; radicalia latiora 72 mm. 7-nervia, caulina 50 mm. 

 5-nervia. Bractese 4 oblongse margine rubellse patentes ad 

 calycis apices. Calyx dentibus triangularibus margine ciliolatis 

 7-nerviis. Petala non contigua ; lamina pallida nigro-punctata 

 obovato-cuneata in lacinias setaceas ad medium usque multifida, 



5 unguis, areola intermedia ovata. 



b. setisquameus, SaussJc. et Bornm. (sp.) in PI. Fxsicc. 

 Anatolicc Orientalis, no. 975 (inedit.). 



35 centim. Caules tenues. Polii vagina caulis diam. duplo 

 longior. Bractese 6 sensim longissime acuminatse fere ad basin 

 calycis dentium, 2 exteriores lineares, interiores lanceolato- 

 lineares, arista herbacea. Calyx dentibus lanceolato-linearibus. 



Lamina lilacina, = | unguis. 



This plant, which may be considered a variety of D. atomarius, 

 rather than a distinct species, is described from specimens 

 recently sent to Kew, and dated 1 Aug. 1889. 



Sab. Kurdish Armenia and North Persia. 



### Calycis dentes lanceolati acuminati 7 nervii. 



Lamina barbulata. 



101. D. fallens, Timb. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, v. (1858), 

 p. 329 ; WOlk. et Lange, Prodr. Fl. Sisp. iii. p. 686 ; Timb. 

 Dianth. Pyr. Fr. p. 19, t. 25. 



Grlaber. Caules 1-2-flori, 20 centim. Folia rigida falcata 

 patentia ; radicalia obtusa 5-nervia, caulina acuminata 3-nervia 

 25 mm., vagina folii diam. sequante. Bractese 4 scarioso-alatse 

 mucronatae ad dimidium calycem, exteriores lanceolate, interiores 

 obovato-lanceolatse. Calyx apice attenuato. Petala contigua ; 

 lamina rhomboidea ad \ regulariter iaciniata, =\ unguis, area 



intermedia obovato-cuneata. 



Geogr. limits.— N. Central Pyrenees. F. Eep. of Andorra. 



S. E. Ebro. W. E. Aragon. 



