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tt Calyx nervis anastomosantibus. 
204. SrneNe arciLiosa, Munby, in’ Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xi. 
(1864) p. 44; Coss., Ilustr. Fl. Atlant., fase. iv. (1890) p. 141, 
t. 91. 
Pubescenti-glandulosa. Caules 14-40 centim. longi, erecti, 
superne dichotomi, plures vel solitarii, pilis inferioribus, cris- 
pulis longioribus, superioribus brevibus. Folia haud undulata, 
margine ciliato-scabra ; inferiora obovato-oblonga vel oblonga 
obtusa, inferne attenuata; superiora lanceolata, acuta, inferne 
hand attenuata; bractew herbacew, pedicellis breviores. Flores 
erecti, longissime pedicellati, dichotomiis plus minus diver- 
gentibus. Calyx oblongo-tubulosus, basi umbilicatus, pallide 
virescens vel rubescens, fructifer superne cylindraceus infra cap- 
sulam angustatus, nervis viridibus, dentibus ovato-triangularibus 
subacutis, albo-marginatis, lanuginoso-ciliatis. Petala rosea, 
unguibus parum exsertis, Jamind integra oblongo-cuneati, 
appendicibus oblongis integris et omnibus ad coronam superne 
crenulatam adnatis. Filamenta glabra. Capsula ovato-cylin- 
drica carpophoro subtriplo lougior. Semina reniformia, com- 
presso-subglobosa, dorso lato tuberculorum seriebus_tribus 
ornato. 
Habitu notisque plurimis affinis S. fuscata, sed differt dentibus 
calycinis subacutis non obtusiusculis, petalis ad faucem lamella 
integra non emarginato-biloba donatis, capsula ovato-cylindracea, 
carpophoro brevi. 
By Rohrbach joined with S. rubella, but is essentially distinct, as Cosson 
shows. 
Hab. Prov. of Oran, in Algeria. 
b. Semina subglobosa tuberculata profunde umbilicata. Calyx 
nervis anastomosantibus. 
205. S. meypriaca, Linn. f., Suppl. Plant., p. 241; Linn., Sp. 
Plant, ed. 1. p.415 (Cucubalus) ; Jacq., Hort. Vindob., iii. (1776) 
p- 19, t. 32 (S. Atocion) ; Rohkrb., Monagr., p. 156. 
Adde syn. S. atocia, St. Lag. in Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon, vii. 
(1880) p. 134. 
S. retroflexa, Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed I. p. 780; ed. LH. p. 087. 
Geogr. limits.—N. Cilicia, in Asia Minor. 
E. Prov. of Aleppo. 
S. Egypt, near Alexandria. 
W. Algeria, near Tiaret. 
