a of 
a. 
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dorso granulato subcanaliculata vel fere plana, faciebus concaviuscula.” 
This character still further serves to distinguish the plant from the next 
two species. 
Hab. Syria; Mt. Lebanon. 
174. SineNE Leprocuapa, Boiss., Fl. Orient., i. p. 647; Rohrb., 
Monogr, p. 145. 
Differt a priori, jam primo aspectu floribus longe pedicellatis, 
calycis striis anastomosantibus, dentibus obtusis, petalis breviter 
bifidis. 
Hah. Near Elmalu, in Anatolia. 
b. Caules e foliorum rosule medio edentes (terminales). 
a, Flores solitarii vel bini, longissime pedicellati. 
175. S. rnavescens, Waldst. et Kit., Pl. Rar. Hung., ii. p. 19), 
t. 175 (1804); Retchb., Ic. Fl. Germ. Helv., n. 5090; Rohrb., 
Monogr., p. 146. 
According to Simonkai, the record of its occurrence in Transsylvania is 
erroneous. Rohrbach has joined with this species S. thessalonica, Boiss. 
et Heldr., but it seems better to separate it on account of the disposition 
of the flowers and other well-marked characters. 
Geogr. limits.—N. Hercules-bad, in Banat, Hungary. 
S. Island of Thasos, off the coast of Rumelia 
(Bornm. et Sint., n. 585, sub S. thessa- 
lonica). 
E. Szaszkam, near Be, in Wallachia. 
W. Croatia. 
176. S. Monerantaa, mihi. 
Syn. S. monantha, Boiss. et Haussk. tn Boiss., Fl. Orient., 
suppl., p. 99 (1888) ; non S. monantha, S. Wats. (1875). 
Glanduloso-pubescens cespitosa pumila. Caules stricti erecti 
simplices foliosi. Folia infima oblongo-spathulata in petiolum 
attenuata, cetera sessilia, latiora, ovato-cordata, amplexicaulia, 
mucronata. Calyx cylindrico-clavatus, umbilicatus, papillis 
albis hirsutus, striis virentibus, dentibus ovatis, acutis, albo- 
marginatis, fructifer nutans infra capsulam constrictus. Petala 
pallida, cuneata, biloba, unguibus exsertis, appendicibus trun- 
catis 4-dentatis. Capsula oblonga, carpophorum 95-6-plo 
superans. 
