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27. Sinene Cserel, Baumg., Enum. Transsilv., p. 345 (1816) ; 
Lindm. in Act. Hort. Bergian., i. (1891) n. 6. p. 14, f. 34) 
(sphalmate, ‘‘S. Fabaria ’’). 
Caules flexuosi glabri. Folia cordato-lanceolata in apicem 
attenuata, mucronulata, glabra, carnosula; bractes et prophyila 
lanceolate: albo-membranaces. Cyma semel dichotoma, ramis 
longissimis flexuosis ob ramulum alterum dichotomie in vicem 
abbreviatuam racemoso-cymuliferis; flores subnutantes calyce 
longius pedicellati. Calyx anguste campanulatus in petiolum 
attenuatus glaucescens, dentibus triangulari-ovatis obtusis albo- 
marginatis apice lanuginosis, fructifer e basi breviter turbinata 
ampliato-ovatus apice leviter contractus. Petala alba bipartita 
tcoronata, lobis lineari-cuneatis emarginatis. Capsula ovata 
carpophorum )-6-plo superans. Semina seriatim tuberculata, 
dorso plano-convexa, faciebus subconcava. 
This species was wrongly sunk in 8. Fabaria by Rohybach ; among other 
+ resentiad characters the calyx has 20 nerves (not 10), as pointed out by 
indman, 
ne Transylvania; and Mt. Sulucu, in Dobrudscha, Janka 
6). 
2. Petala, unguibus non auriculatis, fimbriato-multifida. 
28. §. PHYSALODES, Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. I. viii. 
P83; Roheb., Monogr., p. 88. 
Inflorescenti, 
briaté distincta, 
Hab. Near Ceresarea Philippi (Banias), in N. Palestine. 
a S. rowprtata, Sims, Bot. Mag., t. 908 (1806); Rohrb., 
onogr., p. 88 (S. multifida). 
im, Lychnis Behen, etc., Bub. Pl. Cent. iii. p. 31, t. 57 
petalis minutis, pedicellis refractis, a S. fim- 
Cacubalus fimbriatus, Gueldenst. Reise, ii. p. 24 (1791); C. 
mois: 
ultifidns, Adams, in Herb. Banks; C. multifidus, Weber et 
rag Beitr., 1. p. 57 (1805); C. fimbriatus, Bieb., Fl. Taur.- 
Ws i. p. 333 (1808), 
Scago fimbriata, Hornem. Hort. Hafu., i. p. 409 (1813). 
fit. 1. p 
It is not Worth while to change Sims’s name, since all the literature 
tion, ang ane the plant is under this name ; it has been Jong in cireula- 
of the nie ‘Shame it is known in most of the floras, so that the adoption 
* Proposed by Rohrbach would only cause confusion in @ genus 
UNy, . 
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