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bractex brevissime lineari-subulate. Cymule opposite pedan- 
culate racemum oblongum formantes ; flores parvi, pedicellis 
calyee brevioribus. Calyx obconico-turhinatus, subcostatus, 
dentibus ovatis, late membranaceo - marginatis, ciliolatis. 
Petala virentia, bipartita, lobis linearibus, unguibus ciliatis, 
apice dilatatis. Cansula carpophoro multoties longior. 
Ab omnibus affinibus, cito distinguitur capsula subsessili. 
Hab. Mt. Lolan and Mt. Parrow, in W. Persia, near 
Kermanschah. 
(2) Calyx dentibus alternatim obtusis et acutis, albo- 
marginatis ciliatis. 
a. Folia glabra. 
262. Sirene cutor#Fouia, Sm., Ic. Ined., i. p. 14, t. 13 (1789) ; 
Bot. Magq., t. 807; Rohrb., Monugr., p. 177. 
Adde syn. 8. perfoliata, Otth, in DC. Prodr., i. p. 384. 
B. swertifrouia, Boiss. (sp.), Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. 1. 
1. p. 82. 
y- MAKMELIANA, Boiss. (sp.), l.c., vill. p. 89. 
6. Scuimpertana, Boiss. (sp.), Le., i. p. 31. 
Geogr. limits—N. Prov. of Trans-Caucasia (Rupr, Fu. 
Caucasi, p. 196). 
S. Mt. Sinai (Schimper, nos. 422, 283, 
‘“‘S. dianthoides,” non Pers.). 
E. Mt. Demawend, in prov. of Mazanderan, 
N. Persia (var. fB, vide Aucher-Eloy, 
no. 4215). 
W. Anatolia. 
263. S. tonerrtora, Ehrh., Beitr., vii. p. 144; Reichb., Ic. 
Fl. Germ. Helv., n. 5107; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 178. 
Ex syn. S. staticefolia est species propria. 
Geogr. limits —N. and W. At the base of the Radobil, near 
Leitmeritz, in Bohemia (C. A. Mayer, 
and vide Garcke, Fl. Deutschl. (ed. 
1885], p. 65). 
S. Near Bethlehem, in Judea (Pichler {1889}, 
ex Bull. Herb. Boiss., iii. [1895] p. 82). 
E. Mt. Demawend, in prov. of Mazanderan, 
N. Persia (forma alpina). 
