80 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
Hab. Arjish-Dagh (Mt. Argeus), in prov. of Karamania. 
106. Stnene MENTAGENSIS, Coss., ILlustr, Fl. Atlant., fase. iv. 
(1890) p. 145, t. 94. 
Caules 30-50 centim. longi, erecti, graciles inferne simplices 
vel fere a basi ramosi, superne dichotome ramosi, glabrescentes. 
Folia anguste linearia, acuta, glabrescentia; bractew lineares, 
inferne marginato-membranace®, ciliolata. Flores longe pedi- 
cellati, pedicellis quam bractezee multo longioribus, in cymas 
laterales et terminales laxas dispositi. Calyx tubuloso-infun- 
dibuliformis glaber, fructifer ovatus vel subglobosus superne 
clavatus apice haud contractus, infra capsulam constrictus, 
albido-vel rubenti-membranaceus, nervis filiformibus, dentibus 
brevibus ovato-oblongis membranaceo-marginatis ciliatis. Petala 
livida, unguibus exsertis glabris dente parvo obtuso auriculatis, 
bifida, lobis oblongis obtusis, appendicibus binis parvis ovatis, 
integris inter se liberis. Filamenta glabra. Capsula ovoidea, 
superne acutata carpophorum scabram aquans vel hoc sesqui- 
brevior. Semina reniformia compressa, dorso faciebusque plana 
et tuberculorum preminentium seriebus echinatis. 
Caulibus elatis dichotomis, calycibus fructiferis clavatis, S. 
portensem refert, sed ab hac et ceteris speciebus ejusdem gregis 
Rigidule (series 9) caudice perenni eximie distincta. 
Hab. Djebel Mentaga, in S.-W. Marocco. 
107. S. ruyNcnocarpa, Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. I. i. 
p- 33; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 126. 
Hab. Anatolia. 
108. S. srenroria, Fenzl, Pugill. Pl. Nov. Syr., p. 9 (1842) ; 
Russegg., Reise Ilustr., t. 2; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 127 (S. caryo- 
phylloides). 
Syn. Cucubalus caryophylloides, Poir., Encyc., suppl. }: 
p. 416. 
The older specific name is not only misleading but inappropriate ; [I have 
therefore followed Boissier (Fl. Orient. i. p- 619) in retaining Fenzl’s name, 
by which all misunderstanding is avoided and the plea of convenience 18 
sustained. 
Geogr. limits—N. and E. R. Euphrates, in prov. of Marasch. 
S. Summit of Mt. Lebanon, in Syria. 
W. Mt. Taurus, in Cilicia. 
