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S. multicaulis var. megaspilea (of Boiss., ‘Fl. Orient.,’ i. p. 651), may 
possibly be referred to this variety : a form found in a locality which marks 
the south limit of the species. 
Geogr. limits —N. The Apennines of Central Italy. 
S. Megaspileon, in the nome of Achaia, 
Greece. 
E. Island of Samothraki, in the Turkish 
Archipelago (Von Degen, 1891). 
W. Corsica. 
164. StLene macropona, Velen. in Abh. Bohm. Ges. Wiss., VII. 
i. (1886) n. 8, p. 8, et Fl. Bulgarica, p. 64. 
Glabra, densissime cespitosa, rhizomate lignoso ramoso. 
Caules 30 centim. longi, recti, tenues, superne visciduli, foliosi, 
apice in racemum laxum pauciflorum abeuntes. Folia setaceo- 
linearia margine serrulato-ciliata ; bractese setaces. Pedicelli 
calycem subequantes. Calyx lineari-elongatus, apice clavatus, 
nervis viridibus, dentibus ovato-triangularibus, late albo- 
marginatis. Petalorum lamina virens cuneata, bifida. Anthere 
violacese. Capsula ellipsoidea, carpophoro bis brevior. 
Hab. Bulgaria; Mt. Vitos, near the city of Sofia, Mt. Rilo, 
and Mt. Osogovska Planina. 
165. S. incurvirotiA, Kar. et Kir., Enum. Pl. Fl. Altaice, 
n. 160, in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. (1841), p.391; Rohrb., Monogr., 
p. 141. 
S. incurvifolia differt a S. argutd, quacum a cl. Fenzl 
confusa est, calyce toto glanduloso-hirto, nervis anastomo- 
santibus, dentibus acutis, capsulé oblongo-conica carpophorum 
sequante neque eo pluries longiore. 
B. TURKESTANICA, Regel (sp.), in Act. Hort. Petrop., ii. (1873) 
p. 436. 
Parce ramosa, dense glanduloso-pilosa. 
paullo clavatus, nervis viridibus, dentibus inequalibus. Petala 
extus violascentia, unguibus glabris exsertis, fauce coronatis, 
appendicibus denticulatis. . 
Hab. Near Ajagus, in the desert of Soungaria, and Mt. 
Alatau, in Turkestan. 
166. S. acurirontA, Rehrb., Monogr., p. 141. a 
Differt a S. faetidd jam primo aspectu, calycibus dimidio 
brevioribus, et petalorum forma. 
Hab. Serra da Estrella, in Portugal. 
Calyx fructifer 
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