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£: Viridis, non caespitosus. Bracteae 12. 



h. orientalis, Bonn (sp.), Mart. Cantabr. ed. IV. p. 101 ; Sims, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1069. 



Folia pungentia canaliculata. Bracteae obovatae arete i rubri- 

 cate stramineae. Flores odorati. Lamina lineari-cuneata rosea, 

 = | unguis. 



The plate of this plant was published by Sims in 1807, and is 



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in the text identified with Tournefort's " Caryophyllus orientalis 

 fruticosus, tenuissimo folio, flore laciniato." He further says : — 

 " This plant has great affinity with D. janiperinus, of Dr. Smith, 

 specimens of which, gathered by Tournefort, are to be seen in the 

 Banksian Herbarium ; but differs from it in several respects : 

 the woody part of the stem is of humbler growth, the flowering 

 stalks longer, with short more closely adpressed leaves, and bear- 

 ing fewer flowers, generally only one in its native soil, and from 

 one to three when cultivated ; scales of the calyx more in number 

 and more closely imbricated. ; tube much longer, slenderer, 

 and more pointed ; petals longer, more deeply jagged, and 

 twisted. Pound about Tiflis, in Eussian Georgia." 



+- +1 Virides, non caespitosi. Bracteae 4. 



i. incevtvx^Jacquem. in Hooh.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 215 ; auct. 

 Fnum. spp. varr. Dianthus, p. 14. 



Bracteae ovatae acuminata. Lamina obovato-oblonga. 



j. obtusisquameus, Boiss. FL Orient, i. p. 495 ; auct. Fnum. 

 spp. varr. Dianthus, p. 14. 



Folia flaccidula canaliculata, vagina folii diam. duplo longiore. 

 Bracteae mucronulatae. Calyx purpureus. Lamina rosea. 



Non caespitosi. Bracteae 6-8. Lamina rosea. 



1c. macropetalus, Boiss. Fl. Orient. Supplem. p. 77. 

 Folia non stricta, sed erect o-patentia, vagina folii diam. 

 aequante. Lamina magna obovato-oblonga. 

 Sab. Turkestan. 



7. pogonopetalus, Boiss. et Kotschy (sp.), Diagn. PI. Nov. Or. 

 ser. II. vi. p. 29 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. Supplem. p. 77. 



Caules uniflori. Folia rigida. Bracteae 4 margine anguste 

 scariosae. Calyx viridis, dentibus ciliolatis. Lamina oblongo- 

 spathulata valde barbulata, rosea. 



Bab. Mt. Lebanon. 



