™, 
MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 65 
66. Sinene MARoccaNna, Coss., Illustr. Fl. Atlant., fase. iv. 
(1890) p. 130, t. 83. 
Caules 12-30 centim. longi, plures, graciles, simplices vel 
parce ramosi, centrali erecto lateralibus adscendentibus, rarius 
solitarit erecti. Folia linearia plana vel conduplicata rarius 
oblongo-Janceolata acuta, dense puberula; bractez lanceolate 
vel lineares, hispide ciliate. Flores erecti, breviter pedicellati, 
in pseudoracemos terminales simplices subsecundos 3-12-floros 
dispositi. Calyx tubulosus, fructifer cylindraceo-dilatatus infra 
capsulam constrictus, albido-membranaceus, inter nervos vix 
sub lente puberulus vel glabrescens, nervis longe villosis 
viridibus, dentibus Janceolato-triangularibus acutis albo-mar- 
ginatis ciliatis. Petala alba, profunde bipartita, lobis anguste 
linearibus, appendicibus binis ovatis, omnibus in tubum 
connatis. Filamenta glabra. Capsula oblongo-cylindracea, 
carpophorum pilis retrorsis pubescens bis terve superans. 
Semina marginibus aleformibus latiusculis plus minus undulatis. 
A S. setacedé differt foliis sepius minus angustis, stipite 
capsulé bis terve breviore non paullo breviore, et imprimis 
seminum fabricd nempe sub lente vix striatula dorso profunde 
et anguste canaliculata, canaliculo in fundo haud_ tuberculato 
utrinque marginato, marginibus aleformibus latiusculis plus 
minus undulatis. 
Syn. S. getula, Pomel, Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atlant., p. 329. 
Hab. Marocco, Seignette (1870). 
b. Calyx striatus evenius. 
a. Calyx fructifer apice contractus. 
67. S. Hetpreicuu, Botss., Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. I. viii. 
p. 81; Fl. Orient., suppl., p. 92; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 106. 
Adde: Calyx fructifer oblongus infra capsulam vaide con- 
strictus, dentibus carinatim nervosis. Capsula ovato-oblonga 
dentibus calycinis longe superata. Semina tuberculata. 7 
Differt a S. dichotoméd jam primo aspectu caule simplic: 
nec dichotomo, bracteis herbaceis, floribus sessilibus, calycis 
dentibus elongatis. . 
Hab. Anatolia, near Adalia; and Cilicia Trachea, on the 
promontory of Alaya, Cape Anamour, and Mt. Yamourdabe- 
dagh. 
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