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attenuata, caulina pauca, linearia; bractes lineari-lanceolate, 
acutee, albo-marginate, ciliate. Flores pauci, longius pedicellati. 
Calyx 8 mm. longus, obconico-pyriformis, fructifer breviter 
clavatus, leviter umbilicatus, evenius, nervis costatis, dentibus 
ovato-triangularibus, acutis, rectis, albo-marginatis, ciliatis. 
Petala flavida, unguibus glabris, bipartita, lobis linearibus, 
appendicibus bipartitis, laciniis ovato-triangularibus. Capsula 
ovata, carpophorum bis superans. Semina dorso tuberculato 
canaliculata, faciebus plana. 
Syn. S. radicosa var. breviflora, Boiss., Fl. Orient., i. p. 645. 
Forma subuntFrLora, mihi: Baldacci, It. Albanicum (1892), 
n. 112; et in Malpighia (1894), p. 85. 
Rami uniflori. 
Hab. Mt. Kiore [Montes Ceraunii], in Albania. 
Forma sTENOPHYLLA, mihi. 
Folia angustata, lineari-spathulata, lineariave. 
Syn. 8. oligantha var. stenophylla, Bovss. e¢ Heldr., Diagn. 
Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. IL. i. p. 75. 
Hab. Mt. Parnassus, near Delphi; and Mt. Malevo, in the 
nome of Laconia. 
Hee species est affinis S. radicos, que differt foliis radicali- 
bus angustioribus, longius mucronatis, floribus erectis, calyce 
florifero campanulato-cyliadrico, 12 mm. longo, in dentes 
patenti-recurvos abeunti. 
Geogr. area.—Greece. 
B. Calyx membranaceus, rarissime coriaceus simulque 
pubescens, basi truncatus vel umbilicatus. 
a. Flores in racemis simplicibus, axis primarize internodiis 
nunquam abbreviatis, racemi ramis brevibus oppositis interdum 
altero abortivo alternis, omnibus unifloris vel interdum inferi- 
oribus 3-7-flcris, superioribus tantum unifloris. 
Series 2. Chloranthe. 
Pedicelli ima basi binis prophyllis prediti. Petala bipartita: 
raro retusa. 
A. Petala bipartita vel bifida. 
a. Capsula carpophorum 2-4-plo superans: calyx glaberrimus, 
raro glanduloso-pubescens. 
277. Stnene cunoranrua, Ehrh., Beitr., vii. p. 149; Diill., 
Hort. Eltham., p. 425, t. 316, fig. 408; Rohrb., Monc,>., p. 184. 
