Tas. 5952, 
AXTHIONEMA corrpirourum. 
Native of Asia Minor and Lebanon. 
Nat. Ord. Cructrer#.—Tribe, Lepipinrz. 
Genus rutonema, R. Br. ; (Benth. and Hook. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 88). 
AiTHIONEMA coridifolium ; multicaule, caulibus brevibus simplicibus cras- 
siusculis, foliis crebris linearibus v. lineari-oblongis obtusis carnosulis 
glaucis, racemis densifloris, floribus lilacinis, petalis spathulatis limbo 
orbiculato emarginato v. bilobo, siliculis obovato-oblongis basi retusis 
apice emarginatis, alis angustis modice inflexis integris v. obscure 
dentatis, stylo sinu angusto multo breviore. 
Airmonema coridifolium, DC, Syst., vol. ii. p. 561; Prod., vol. i.p. 209; Deless. 
Ic, Select., vol. ii. t. 76 (silicula excepta); Boiss. Fl. Orient., vol. i. p. 347. 
_ Lepipiem leiocarpum, DC. Syst., vol. ii. p. 563. 
Inserts jucunda, Schott et Kotschy mss. 
The similarity of this plant to the Dberidella rotundifoha, 
figured at Tab. 5749 of this work, is very manifest, and is a 
strong argument for reducing the genus Jberidella to dithio- 
nema, as has indeed been done of late by M. Boissier, in his 
“Flora Orientalis ;” the difference between them hes chiefly 
in the capsule, which is broadly winged in dthionema, and 
scarcely winged in Jéberidella. a 
4. coridifolium is a native of rocky mountains in the East, 
having been originally found by Labillardiere upon Mount 
Lebanon, where it has subsequently been gathered, between 
the village of Eden and the famous cedar grove, by Boissier ; 
it has also been found in the Cilician Taurus by Kotschy, who 
probably introduced it into the Botanic Garden of Vienna, 
whence it was sent by M. Maly to Messrs. Backhouse, with 
whom the specimen here figured flowered in May, 1871. It 
is a most charming hardy perennial, well suited for rockwork, 
and more likely to suffer from the damp than the cold of 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1872. 
