334 SOCIÉTÉ BOTANIQUE DE FRANCE. 
Var. 8. — Foliis majoribus, orbicularibus, basi cordatis, — Ex horto Au- 
dibertiano in herb. Mus, paris. — Patria ignota. 
Sect. 2. PACHYCARPOS. — Deilosma Spach part. 
Petala lineari-spathulata. Valvæ crassæ, spongiosæ, indehiscentes. 
2. H. pulmonarioides Boiss. Ann. sc. nat. 2, xvir, 68. Walp. Rep. 1, 
162. 
. H. quadrangula Boiss. Ann. sc. nat. 2, XVII, 67. Walp. Rep. 1, 161. — 
H. reticulata Aucher-Éloy in sched. n° 129. — Erysimum longisiliquum 
Aucher-Éloy in sched. n° 149. — Deilosma triste Spach in sched. 
Hesperis syriaca Cam. Hort. med. p. Th, tab. 49. Clus. Hist. 296. Moris. 
Oxon. 11, p. 252, § 3, tab. 40, f. 4. J. Bauh. Hist. 11, p. 879, f. 2. Chabr. 
Sciagr. 280, f. 6. Rai Hist. 790. Welsch Bas. bot. 116. 
Hesperis peregrina siliquis geniculatis C. Bauh. PAytop. 380. 
Hesperis silvestris latifolia flore albo parvo Park. Theat. 628. 
Planta biennis, radice crassa napiformi, tota ochracea, pilis brevissimis glan- 
dulosis aliisque albis scariosis adpressis obsita vel basi tantum hispidula. Caulis 
crassus, valde angulatus, erectus, sesquipedalis. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, ra- 
dicalia integerrima in petiolum planum longe attenuata, pilis furcatis hispidula, 
caulina ad basin ramorum sessilia, repanda aut integra, acuta, semiamplexi- 
caulia, subtriangulata, apice attenuata. Pedicelli glabri, teretes, patuli, calycem 
æquantes, flore delapso arcuati, fructibus maturis incrassati, fere 3 cent. longi, 
omnes bracteati, bracteis triangularibus pedunculum subæquantibus. Flores 
corymbosi; petalis sordide flavis, lineari-spathulatis, post anthesin multo 
accrescentibus, calycem triplum zequantibus, limbo tertiam tantum petali par- 
tem æquante, 3"" lato, rotundato ; stamina majora exserta, minora basim 
antherarum majorum non attingentia, basi crassa tereti insertis. Racemi 
fructiferi longissimi. Siliquz juniores glandulosæ, adultæ glaberrimæ, cum 
pedunculis divaricatæ, crassissimæ, 14-16 cent. longa, lateraliter subcom- 
presse, valvarum carina cum columnis placentiferis prominula quadrangulæ, 
rigidæ, fragiles, forsan indehiscentes, valvis sectione transversali triangulari- 
bus, maxime spongiosis, dissepimento passim incrassato, stigmatibus brevis- 
simis. Semina elongata, nidulantia, cotyledonibus paulum conduplicatis. 
Crescit ad Odessa (Aucher-Éloy n° 149 in herb. Mus. paris.), ad Alep 
(Aucher-Éloy n° 129, Rauwolf). — V. sp. in herb. Mus. paris. et DC. 
Var. pedicellis calyce longioribus. (Leucotum marinum Rauw. . Hodoep. 
part. 4, c. 4. — Hesperis syriaca sive Leucoium marinum D. Rauwol fii 
Cam. Hort. med. p. 7h, tab. 20). — Crescit ad Tripoli. 
Obs. — Leucoium melancholico colore Besl. Syst. eyst. ord. 2, p. 15, 
f. 3 (L. melancholicum John Gerarde Herb. 463) opinor Cheirantho 
