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a. Petala unguibus exauriculatis. 
338. SILENE arrGHANIca, Rohrb. in App. Alt. Ind. Hort. Berol. 
(1867), p. 5; Rohkrb., Monogr., p. 210. 
Hab. Afghanistan. 
339. S. puperuLa, Boiss. Fl. Orient., i. p: 636; Rohrb., 
Monogr., p. 210. 
Hab. Mt. Pir Omar Gudran, in Persian Kurdistan (Hauss- 
knecht ex Boiss., Fl. Orient., suppl., p. 103); hills near Baibout, 
in Turkish Armenia. 
340. S. Nieperi, Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. II. 
vi. p. 32; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 211. 
Ab affinibus corona subnulla discrepans. 
Hab. N. Greece (vide Haussknecht, in Mittheil. Thiiring. Bot. 
Ver., Heft v. [1893] p. 49). 
E. Carpenisi, in the nome of Attolia. 
N. Peak of Zygos. 
S. and W. Ionian Islands; vineyards in the Isle of 
Sta. Maura (Baldacci, n. 229, ex Bull. Herb. 
Boiss., iv. p. 203 [Mars, 1896]) ; also Janina, in 
prov. of Epirus, Turkey (Baldacci, in litt., July, 
1896). 
341. S. tongiperaLa, Vent., Pl. Jard. Cels, t. 83; Sibth. et Sm., 
Fl. Greca, v. p. 13, t. 419; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 211. 
Adde: Petala alba vel purpurascentia, rarius ochroleuca. 
Species ab affinibus radice repenti, panicule ample ramis 
longis divaricatis, distincta. 
Adde syn. S. Ehrenbergiana, Rohrb., Monogr., p. 163, n. 164. 
S. chloropetala, Rupr., Fl. Caucasi, p. 195 (1369). 
B. ASPERIFOLIA, F'reyn (sp.), in Bull. Herb. Boiss.,iii. (1895) p. 97. 
Folia tomentoso-aspera. Pedicelli stricti, ad medium bibrac- 
teati. Capsula oblonga. 
Geogr. limits.—N. and E. Prov. of Daghestan, in Cis-Caucasia 
(S. chloropetala). 
S. El Arish, on the coast of Egypt, near the 
frontier of Palestine (Asch. et Schweinf. 
in Mém. Inst. Egypt., ii. [1889] p. 749). 
W. Greece; Corinth (Haussknecht, in Mittheil. 
Thiiring. Bot. Ver., Heft v.). 
