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Adde: Nervi calycini sparse furcati vix conjuncti. 
3. SOLENOCALYX, Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. II. v. p. 97 
(S. bupleuroides var. solenocalyx) ; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 176. 
Folia linearia graminea, vix scabrida ; cal yx rubro-venius. 
Geogr. limits.—Turkey in Asia. 
N. Near Erzeroum, in Armenia. 
S. and W. Between Ermenek and Karaman, 
in Cilicia. 
EF. Mt. Bingél-Dagh, in proy. of Masch. 
257. Stuene Rovyana, Battand. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxv. 
(1888) p. 385; Coss., Illustr. Fl. Atlant., fase. iv. (1890) p. 147, 
t. 95. 
Cespitosa, glabra, glauca. Caules basi suffrutescentes erecti, 
superne viscidi. Folia radicalia lineari-lanceolata, vel anguste 
oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, in petiolaum inferne squamiformi- 
dilatatum attenuata, media sepius angustiora, superiora lineari- 
subulata, rigidula, sepius pungentia, plus minus membranaceo- 
marginata, margine membranaceo tenuissime denticulato. 
Flores solitarii, caulem et ramos laterales quando adsunt 
terminantes. Calyx 22-30 mm. longus, tubuloso-infundibuli- 
formis, annulo circulari pseudoumbilicatus, fructifer superne 
cylindraceo-dilatatus, infra capsulam angustior, nervis anas- 
tomosantibus sepe rubellis, dentibus inequilongis, ovato- 
triangularibus, mucronatis, membranaceo-marginatis, brevissime 
ciliatis. Petala bifida, intus albida, extus tigrino-purpurea, 
lobis oblongo-linearibus obtusis, appendicibus binis ovato- 
lanceolatis, acutis, inferne convexo-gibbosis. Filamenta glabra. 
Capsula cylindrica, apice conica, carpophoro duplo_longior. 
Semina reniformia, compressa, dorso granulato canaticulata, 
faciebus plana. 
S. caramanica differt, ceteris neglectis, calyce punctis 
elevatis tuberculato, petalorum laminis linearibus angustioribas, 
appendicibus apice fimbriatis vel serrato-erosulis, et stipite 
capsule subequilongo non subduplo breviore. 
Hab. Algeria; Mt. Mzi, in prov. Oran. 
258. S. macrosoren, Steud. in Schimp., Pl. Abyssin., ii. 
n. 661; ex A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyssin., i. p. 44 (1847); Rohrb., 
Monogr., p. 176. 
Hab. Abyssinia. 
